Chris Melnick-macdonald
Director Of Artificial Intelligence at Peple
Kings, Subdivision A, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Melnick-macdonald is a strategic technology leader and founder with 15+ years applying cloud, AI, and geospatial intelligence to mission-critical problems across defence, public health, and enterprise. As Director of AI at CGI and Founder/CEO of Peple.io, he blends product-building experience with enterprise AI strategy—turning generative models, Google Cloud architectures, and geospatial analytics into operational value. His career began in the Canadian Armed Forces as a geospatial engineer and evolved into leading national-scale initiatives like Canada’s COVID-19 geospatial response and GEO.ca, demonstrating rapid deployment under pressure and multi-agency collaboration. Chris is known for marrying rigorous governance and security (Government of Canada cloud guardrails, ISO metadata standards) with pragmatic product delivery, and for championing data ownership and workforce equity through AI-driven recruitment. He thrives at the intersection of strategy and engineering, mentoring teams to translate complex AI capabilities into accessible, ethical, and measurable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
Algonquin CollegeHonour Bachelor of Arts Archaeology, Honour Bachelor of Arts Archaeology at University of Toronto
English
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Github Skills (9)
geospatial9
gis9
api8
catalog8
aws7
geoserver7
serverless7
gdal6
cloud-native3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Canadian-Geospatial-Platform/geo.ca
Apr 2021 - Mar 2024
This is the production release content for GEO.CA. For a development release of GEO.CA please visit the link below | Ceci est le contenu de la version de production pour GEO.CA. Pour une version de développement de GEO.CA, veuillez visiter le lien ci-dessous : https://canadian-geospatial-platform.github.io/geo.ca/
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 1193 pushes in 2 years 11 months
geospatialgiscanadian
Canadian-Geospatial-Platform/geocore
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
GeoCore is an Open Source Cloud Native (AWS) Geospatial Catalog | GeoCore est un catalogue géospatial Open Source Cloud Native (AWS)
Contributions:1 release, 201 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
catalogueapigeospatialserverlessmapping
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