Emmanuel Pinault

Principal software engineer building backend platforms in Elixir and Go. I lead large migrations, design shared libraries and architecture, and build AI automation for the software development lifecycle.

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At a glance

Current role: Principal Software Developer at Podium (remote), since January 2021
Experience: 20+ years in backend and platform engineering
Core stack: Elixir, Go, Ruby, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
Focus areas: Legacy migrations, distributed systems, shared libraries and code generation, developer productivity, AI agents for engineering workflows, ISO and SOC 2 compliance
Level of work: Member of Podium's architecture group, hands-on builder
Based in: Seattle, Washington (Pacific time)
Languages: English (fluent), French (native), Spanish (intermediate), Khmer (beginner)

Selected work

Cloud Agent platform. An agent system that implements changes, runs tests, and opens verified pull requests across 350+ repositories, about half of them services. It cut task turnaround from days to hours.
CRM re-architecture. Rebuilt a legacy CRM in 8 months and migrated 700M contacts and 2.8B events with zero downtime. Built the company's shared sharding library along the way.
Rails monolith migration. Led an 8-month migration of 40+ services off a Rails monolith, with a transition plan that let teams cut over safely and incrementally.
Salesforce sync at Outreach. Designed a configurable bi-directional sync service (Elixir, PostgreSQL) that onboards customer data and keeps both systems consistent.

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