Software Developer II · Ottawa, Canada
Sebastien Girard
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AI Leadership
Lead — Tech Trekker Forum
Cision Ltd. · December 2024 – Present
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- Scaled the group by 35% to 51 members across multiple R&D pillars by increasing engagement and broadening scope.
- Delivered 23 technology presentations over the year, consistently driving awareness of emerging tools like Langfuse, Google ADK/A2A, AG-UI, Speckit, and BMAD.
- Accelerated company-wide AI adoption: championed AI coding tooling like OpenCode, MCP servers, and agent workflows, now actively used by developers across teams.
- Authored a framework for developing, testing, and deploying AI-generated code.
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Engineering Leadership
President & Avionics Lead
uOttawa Rocketry Team · 2019 – 2024
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- Led a 30+ member multidisciplinary team to a successful flight of a 3m tall rocket with 8 kN of thrust, reaching Mach 1.7 and 23,000 ft.
- As President, oversaw all operations: strategic planning, project management, safety, people management, legal and insurance compliance, budget, funding, and sponsor relations.
- Architected the Primary Flight Computer in C++ with safety-critical systems, real-time event detection, and ground support systems for a hybrid rocket engine.
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Technologies
Languages
JavaPythonTypeScriptCC++C#JavaScriptSQL
Backend
Spring BootSpring CloudWebFluxResilience4jKafkaDockerKubernetesGCPTerraformMicroservices
AI & ML
Google ADKMCPLangChain/LangGraphRAGAI AgentsScikit-Learn
Frontend
ReactNext.jsMUITanStack Table
Databases
PostgreSQLElasticsearchMongoDB
Practices
System DesignTDDJUnitTestcontainersCI/CDArgoCDGrafanaPrometheusRESTful APIAgile
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Education
BASc Software Engineering
University of Ottawa
Magna Cum Laude · 5 co-op terms: uOttawa BioGenie, Cision (×2), Spiria Inc. & Motorola Solutions
Languages
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