David Chartrand
Co-Founder, CEO And Creative Director
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Chartrand is a multidisciplinary entrepreneur and software developer with 18 years of experience, based in Montreal, who blends mathematics, creative direction, and hands-on engineering to ship immersive XR and AI-driven products. As Co-Founder, CEO and Creative Director of Squido Studio he helped launch No More Rainbows in VR and now leads development on DigiGods, a free-to-play social sandbox for teens, while maintaining active back-end contributions to open publishing projects like Pressbooks. He has founded and led multiple startups including Memo and Novatic AI, pairing product strategy with technical delivery and compliance-focused AI training for teams. A former educator who taught game programming and integrated tech across schools, he brings rare classroom-tested pedagogy to product and team development. He also serves as a board member advising on quantum optics experiments and consciousness research, reflecting a curiosity-driven mix of science and design. Comfortable moving between code, creative vision and organizational leadership, he excels at turning complex technical models into engaging user experiences.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Physics and Computer Science, Mathematics Physics and Computer Science at Université de Montréal
Github Skills (3)
php10
back-end-development10
xml8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
pressbooks/pressbooks
Mar 2013 - Dec 2019
Open publishing. Open web. Open source.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 1069 commits, 470 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:David's contributions focused on modifying the book data model by modifying metadata processing within the export pipelines. The commits involve changes to the book attributes, license data, and how chapter information is structured. They are likely working on core functionalities of data structure for the export functions.
ebookspublishingwebbooksopen-publishingpb-active
connerbw/GeoLiking
Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:67 commits, 39 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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