Summary
Guillaume Charest is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer and IT strategy professional with more than 15 years of experience spanning the Canadian federal government, SMBs, and not-for-profit organizations. Based in the Greater Ottawa area, he combines an MBA in IT Management with bilingual fluency in French and English to align enterprise architecture, business analysis, and information management with practical delivery. He is currently a Developer, Site Reliability Engineering at the Canadian Digital Service, focusing on building reliable, scalable systems and strategic information-system integration. Previously, he led IT strategy and open-source initiatives within the Government of Canada, advocating open-source software and collaborative problem-solving across departments. A strong proponent of open source in business, he brings hands-on engineering leadership and advisory skills to modernize public-sector technology and optimize processes.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at Université Laval
English, French