Jacques Bernier

Jacques Bernier is a skilled Staff Software Engineer with extensive experience in software development and engineering leadership. Currently engaged at Upwork since November 2024, Jacques previously worked at Objective, Inc. focusing on AI-native search technology. At Twitch from August 2018 to November 2022, Jacques led a team of engineers and applied scientists, contributed to defining team strategy, and designed several distributed systems for large-scale search challenges. Mentorship and workflow improvements were also key responsibilities during this tenure. Prior roles include Senior Software Engineer at Pandora, where Jacques bridged Rdio's systems to enhance content management and led a project utilizing machine learning for content annotation, as well as a Software Engineer at Rdio, focusing on metadata quality and ingestion system redesign. Jacques holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Software Engineering from Université Laval.