about us
Hopper is developing a website for consumer travel discovery. Its travel-oriented search engine allows users to discover destinations and products using only keywords.
Hopper is applying cluster computing techniques to build the world's largest database of travel information. The company is using Machine Learning, NoSQL databases and Big Data processing to transform raw web pages into structured and organized information, enabling a faster, more complete, and more flexible search than traditional travel sites.
Hopper is funded by Atlas Venture and Brightspark Ventures.
jobs
Hopper is hiring exceptionally smart and creative people to help us bring to life new ideas about how online travel should work. We use information extraction, machine learning, distributed computing and custom search algorithms to transform ridiculously huge volumes of data into useful information. And we're building a pretty cool user interface, too.
Our team is 12 people strong now, but we want to double that over the next year. So if you think you have something to contribute, then we definitely want to hear from you (jobs@hopper.com). Are you in the Boston area? We're opening a new office in Cambridge soon.
team
Frederic Lalonde"Founder and CEO. I sold my last company, Newtrade, to Expedia in 2002. I became Product VP for Expedia’s Hotel and Packages group, where I was surrounded by some of the smartest people I've ever worked with. I'm also on the Board of Directors of MakeMyTrip (MMYT)." |
Joost Ouwerkerk"Co-founder and Chief of Product as well as coder. Before Hopper, I was at Expedia's Hotel Supply Group, where I worked my way through most roles in the product development cycle, from Programmer to Product Manager." |
Sebastien Rainville"Co-founder and Chief Engineer at Hopper, where I teach machines to perform tasks so that people don't have to. I studied Electrical and Software Engineering and previously developed industrial automation software at F.L Smithe." |
Andrée Coudé"Chief of Operations. In addition to overseeing Hopper's release cycle, I manage our remote team of content analysts. Before Hopper I was Director of the Lexo product line at Accovia, and before that, Director of QA for the Hotel Supply Group at Expedia." |
Mathieu Patenaude"Chief of Information. I'm building Hopper's technology infrastructure, which includes clusters of hundreds of computers processing terabytes of data. I have previously held Information Architect positions at Expedia, Radialpoint and BCE Emergis." |
Sebastien Coutu"Infrastructure Architect. I'm helping build Hopper's technology infrastructure, one node at a time. Before Hopper, I managed managed hundreds of systems spanning 5 datacenters at Radialpoint. I've also worked at DigiDyne, Sungard EMS and Videotron." |
Greg Lu"Software Engineer. I joined Hopper while studying Software Engineering at McGill. I work mostly with the back-end system, including crawling, database, and distributed computation." |
contact
where we work
address
5795 Ave de Gaspé, Suite 100,
Montreal, QC, Canada, H2S 2X3
We work in a factory. Under a bridge. By the railroad tracks. It's tricky to get to, so check the Map for the right route.
The main entrance is the last door to the right. There is a secure door inside; dial 15 on the panel.