Hello, I'm Fred!

Developer Advocate and Technical Evangelist roles are more common than when I started.

After some well-deserved vacations, I started my search for a new challenge two months ago and I’m happy to announce that today is my first day as a Fitbit Senior Developer Advocate.

Today is my mom’s birthday: she would have been seventy-eight years old.

I’m currently looking for my next challenge, mostly as a Developer Advocate, which means, I started some very interesting discussions, and as a matter of fact, ended some other for different reasons: the vision of the job didn’t fit mine: quite often they…

I’ve had a couple of discussions recently about technical evangelists, or if you prefer, developer advocates role.

- How are you?

There is no doubt, if you want to scale your outreach and grow your network, online is the way to go.

When I have discussions about what’s next for me (2017 article, still hold a lot of truth) and one question always comes back: where can I find more information about what you’ve done in your previous roles or your online presences.

A little more than three weeks ago, I announced that I was ending my adventure as a freelancer.

Please check Let’s Do Epic Shit Together instead Going back as a freelancer was not that hard for me.

It’s been five years now that I’m giving a direction to the new year by using three words instead of a specific resolution.

As I a mentioned in February, I decided to start my own business and go back to the marvellous world of freelancing with No lion is born king (website no longer available).

Content Warning: This article content sensitive topics that could trigger past trauma or make you uncomfortable. i.e.: suicidal thoughts, depression, mental health.

I’ll spare you the details for now, but last year wasn’t easy for me.

After a couple of weeks off, I’m back!

It’s the beginning of a new year, which means a blank slate to move forward, improve yourself, and enhance your life.

I was impatiently waiting for 2016: I know it’s psychological, but the first of January is like a new chapter, a blank slate to start over, to do better.

When I’m doing talks on personal branding, I’m always telling people that one way to help your brand is to start doing public speaking.

Last updated on February 12 2026.

What happen when you listen to music?

Did you ever take the time to look truly at your social media feed?

In approximatively two weeks, I’ll speak at the West Island Developers and Entrepreneurs Meetup (group doesn’t exist anymore) about personal branding for developers.

I’m in the middle of my third weeks at IMMUNIO (website no longer available), and I’m having a blast.

Today is my first day as a Sr.

Today I’m in the beautiful Vancouver speaking at the JavaScript Open Day event.

Many things are happening in my life right now, and I realize it’s the result of me, lying to myself.

I turned thirty-three today.

It’s others fault if I can’t do what I want to do today.

Ce jeudi je présenterais pour la deuxième fois à PHP Québec, mais non pas pour parler de PHP, mais bien pour discuter de l’importance du personal branding.

A new user group organizer contacted me to ask this simple question: from your experience, when people say “YES” to attend an event, what percentage of those people actually show up.

I’ve been using meetup.com for many years as an attendee, but also as an organizer of HTML5mtl and Yuldev.

When people pay to attend a conference, they do it for a lot of reasons, but the biggest one is to learn from great speakers and experts in the industry.

Depuis que je m’implique un peu plus dans le milieu des affaires et la communauté des technologies de Montréal, j’ai découvert un potentiel énorme au Québec et plus précisément à Montréal.

I’m reading the biography of Steve Jobs.

Since my book on personal branding for developers is now available, I also want to continue to share about the subject on this blog, but also at conferences.

Being a Rogers Ambassador in Canada, Rogers offered me their internet stick with one of their data plan.

If you know me, you realized a long time ago I’m someone positive.

One of my word for 2015 is health.

It’s now a tradition: every year, I write down my three words of the year.

I feel like we just started 2014, and yet, it’s already the first day of 2015.

The more I’m getting older, the less I care about Christmas.

I’ve been using Wordpress for more than ten years, and even if it’s a great piece of software, he doesn’t fill my actual needs anymore.

I’m thrilled to announce that my book on personal branding for developers is now available at Apress: Success in Programming, How to Gain Recognition, Power, and Influence Through Personal Branding.

Yes, leaving Mozilla without knowing where to go next was a bold move, but it paid off.

Every time I speak at a conference, I feel bless to be able to do so.

Looking for a new challenge is always an interesting experience, and this time is no exception.

Since I’m looking for my next challenge, I’m discussing with many people about possible roles in their company.

January 1st (or before if needed) will be my last day as a Senior Technical Evangelist at Mozilla.

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by Mathieu Laferrière to answer a couple of questions about the future of work.

At the last day of October, I’ll be in Montevideo in Uruguay at the MOVE event from Movistar.