Vallée holds a bachelor"s degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Ottawa. He started his career as a data scientist and continued as a systems architect. By the age of 25 he had started his fourth company — Pythian.
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Vallée is founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of database infrastructure management, architecture and performance outsourcing company Pythian founded in 1997. He received the Ottawa Forty Under 40 award from the Ottawa Business Journal in 2011, an award which recognizes the achievements of forty business people under the age of forty. In 2014 he received the Trudeau Medal from the Telfer School of Management of the University of Ottawa.
