Quebec, Canada
Martin
Fournier
Senior Software Architect & IT Consultant with 20+ years building systems that scale.
I bridge complex architecture and daily efficiency — through sovereign infrastructure, AI agent orchestration, real estate, and algorithmic trading.
20+
Years Experience
Java · Laravel · Flutter
Core Stack
Open Source
Contributor
Algo Trader
IB API · StrategyQuant
What I Build
Featured Projects
OCR Receipt
Cross-platform receipt OCR with structured extraction
A desktop application that processes receipt PDFs through AI-backed OCR, extracting vendor names, dates, subtotals, TPS/TVQ taxes, and totals. Built with PyQt6, packaging for Windows, macOS, and Linux with Sparkle-style auto-updates and Ed25519-signed appcast feeds. Features a pay-per-page cloud API fallback.
Python · PyQt6 · Tesseract · llama-cpp-python · Laravel 13 · Fly.io
Hermes Agent
Autonomous AI agent orchestration platform
A self-hosted AI agent that operates as a personal engineering partner, executing complex workflows across terminal, browser, file system, APIs, and multiple LLM providers. Manages 17+ software projects through the BMAD Method with structured 4-phase planning. Integrates with Joplin (second brain), Telegram/Discord, cron automation, and domain-specific skill libraries.
TypeScript · Go · Docker · Fly.io · LLM APIs
martinfournier.com
Personal website and technical blog
A dark-mode personal website with a blog covering AI, trading, software architecture, and developer tooling. Includes Filament admin, category/year filtering, markdown table rendering, and a blog API for programmatic publishing. Deployed on Fly.io.
Laravel 12 · Blade · Tailwind v4 · Filament v3 · SQLite · Fly.io · GitHub Actions
Areas of Mastery
Software Architecture
20+ years building scalable, high-utility systems in Java, Laravel, Flutter, and Angular.
AI & Automation
Building sovereign AI infrastructure with local LLMs, agent orchestration, and advanced prompt engineering.
Real Estate
Long-term wealth preservation through disciplined allocation into dividend-producing assets.
Algorithmic Trading
Systematic, probability-based trading using Interactive Brokers API and StrategyQuant.
Writing
Latest Posts
Software Architecture
Automated Blog Hero Images: Gemini Generation, GD Thumbnails, and Eloquent Observer Wiring
How a Gemini API call, a PHP GD thumbnailer, and a single Eloquent observer turned blog hero images into a zero-touch pipeline. No admin panel interaction required.
Software Architecture
AppImage CI for PyQt6 Desktop Apps: From uv sync to a Distributable Artifact
Packaging a Python desktop app as an AppImage means bundling Tesseract OCR, a GGUF ML model, Qt platform libs, and a PyInstaller-built binary into a single distributable file. Here is the exact workflow.
Software Architecture
Operations Manifest for a Trading System: What 900 Lines of Runbook Taught About Running Code That Handles Money
After 14 weeks of paper trading, the engineering team realized the code wasn't the problem -- the operational layer was missing. Enter a 900-line operations manifest and an 800-line reliability engineering guide.
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Open to opportunities & partnerships
Whether you're looking for a technical lead, a co-founder, an investor, or just want to talk shop — I'd love to hear from you.
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