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
Panier Futé: A Python Pipeline That Scrapes Grocery Flyers With Gemini Vision
How a Python CLI tool scrapes Quebec grocery flyers via HTTP, extracts items and prices with Gemini 2.5 Flash Vision, tracks price history in SQLite, generates weekly meal plans from sale items, and pushes to a dashboard.
Software Architecture
Three Bugs Before Breakfast: Integrating Flutter with Google Health Connect
A walk through three sequential bugs that blocked a Flutter app from reading Google Health Connect data, how each was discovered, and what the health package v13.3.1 actually needs from your AndroidManifest.
Software Architecture
Binary Bars and Byte Orders: Building a High-Performance Backtest Data Pipeline
How I built a custom binary bar format with MappedByteBuffer, chased an endianness bug across Python and Java, and organized 11 Maven modules around zero circular dependencies.
Let's Connect
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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