I have worked with many sharp people and Claude is the cream of the crop. He approaches problems openly and holistically. He brings a wealth of experience spanning both strategic and technical areas that have been of key value to project teams and business stakeholders. Claude can take direction and run with it, or can simply take the reins and define the direction needed. He does his homework, gains consensus, and has proven to be an effective leader.

Claude and I have worked together closely over five years as Architects at Microsoft. He is a rare individual that has such a wide range of capabilities that it is difficult to describe. Having him on your team is like having an additional entire team on the job, including both technical as well as business skill sets. In our work within Microsoft on highly scalable data integration projects, he was instrumental in moving the project forward at each step.

Claude is an exceptional engineer. He is methodical AND very fast. He is structured AND very creative. He has an exceptional mind and passion for technology AND a unique understanding of the business. I would hire him again in a heartbeat.

I had the opportunity to work with Claude on some far out experimental search experience prototypes a few years ago and found him inspiring and brilliant. There are those that think big thoughts but produce little and those that produce much but lack the ability to take an idea further. Claude writes the philosophy and the code... that is a rarity.

At each and every juncture, Claude demonstrated an exceptional balance of technical acuity, business sense, and sound engineering judgment. I have witnessed him architect several new applications, each time meeting or exceeding the design expectations.

I worked for Claude as a development manager, and genuinely miss his insight, clarity of vision, and humor. Under his leadership we did great things. Besides being a great technology manager, he's a great engineer and the finest UI/UX guy I've ever known.

Claude Duguay is one of the best software coders I have ever worked with. People describing his work often comment about how clean, concise, and elegant his coding and designs are. It is common for engineers of all levels to seek him out for guidance on design and approach to algorithmic challenges. I have always been able to implicitly trust his estimations on time and cost and consider him to be one of the best of the best.

Claude impressed me thoroughly, when we worked closely together at Microsoft, with the depth and breadth of his technical knowledge and his uncompromising passion for quality. He is a brilliant architect, capable of articulating solutions in a manner both easy to understand and compelling. I would recommend him without hesitation.

Claude is a very capable software developer and software manager. I appreciated his ability to design, develop and deliver a unique client application. He effectively managed a group of developers while simultaneously serving in a technical leadership role for the entire company. I would highly recommend Claude.

Claude was perpetually pursuing new technologies in an effort to exploit them for the benefit of our startup. Through research and analysis, he helped direct a near complete re-write of our core application. His insight extended beyond the purely technical, and also contributed to our decision to add API functions to permit cost savings through outsourcing.

I was extremely impressed by Claude's ability to break down the functionality he wanted from us into a well thought out progression of deliverables that resulted in good early feedback and realistic deadlines. Claude is an outstanding manager and communicator and the balance he manages to keep between always learning new technology and building systems that 'just work' is very rare indeed.

I enjoy working with Claude. He has a passion for quality, an eye for the practical, and ear for B.S. He's outspoken, capable, smart, and influential. He's a valuable team member and an even more valuable ally.

Claude has many strengths; those that stood out to me most were his depth of technical knowledge, his ability to effectively translate this knowledge to large teams with disparate skills/working styles, and his approachability. In extremely high-pressure, tight-timeline, chaotic environments Claude always exuded a sense of friendly calm and control, it was a pleasure reporting to him.

I've worked with Claude at several companies, and his deep knowledge and skill translated directly to productive development, insightful architecture decisions, and skilled leadership. I can definitely recommend him, and he would be an asset to any company that hires him.

I have known Claude for four plus years in PQO and its precedent organizations. We have never worked on the same project, but he has been a resource that I have utilized in my architecture, design, and development process. He has provided me with comprehensive and well thought out options, elegant code samples, and links whenever I knocked on his door. He is an extremely well rounded and thorough individual, not only in the technology arena, but also in other disciplines. Curiosity, asking the major questions of what, where, when, who, why, and how, and being an incessant reader are all part of this architectural package. I have no reservation in recommending Claude.

Claude was a valued resource for understanding and supporting the backup technology he had help create while at Atrieva/Driveway - he was a go-to resource for everyone in sales, development, and QA. His approach to solving problems and understanding client requirements was reflected in the high quality products he helped bring to market. Claude was great to work with and I'd enjoy working with him again if I had the opportunity.

I had the pleasure of working with Claude at CapitaStream while he was working as the architect, and lead developer. Claude is smart, and always willing to explain complex systems in detail, exhibiting patience, and a grand ability to train. Claude's work on the product, carried it forward efficiently, where his work still has a positive impact today.

Claude is very intelligent, extremely knowledgeable in his field, and has an insatiable appetite for learning about the latest technologies through extensive reading.

I have had the pleasure working with Claude at 2 different companies where he was a coder, manager and architect since 1999. I have seen nothing but dedication and success with all of his projects. He is a visionary in software development, a great leader, and is simply brilliant with a good understanding of highly technical concepts and leverages technology to its fullest. Lastly, his work ethic is second to none and is well respected among his peers. Claude would make a great asset for any team and would be an amazing resource.

During my 30 years in the software industry and among the hundreds of developers with whom I have worked, Claude is among the very best, brightest, most productive, and from whom I have learned the most. Claude is a monster coder. He created specific features for a 'data collection' system for me related to manageability, user experience, and configuration policy that I needed for system operability. At the same time that he developed these features he was also instrumental in implementing important query parser changes to a search system's front end. Claude's code is extremely well-designed, clean, elegant, and beautiful. Claude is a great software architect. He understands design principals (reflected in his code) and always builds software that is maintainable over time. I had many design discussions with him where I modified my own design based on his key insights. Claude is a strong leader. He sees the big picture and manages people, process, time, and budget to deliver. He has nurtured and mentored many junior programmers and some senior developers. He manages team dynamics consciously and intentionally to deliver results while keeping morale high. I have no reservations at all about recommending Claude.

Claude is one the brightest and visionary architects which I have had the pleasure of working with. He has deep understanding of the business and technical needs. He has a great personality and fun to work with.