Denis Ricard
Principal Developer - Data De-Identification
Markham, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDenis Ricard is a Principal Developer specializing in data de-identification and cloud architecture with over 20 years of engineering experience and a decade focused on privacy-preserving healthcare data platforms. He currently architects De-Identification and data linking solutions at Merative after leading similar efforts and multi-cloud modernizations at IBM and Watson Health. Denis combines deep systems and database expertise (DB2, columnar engines, big-data stacks like Spark/Hive/YARN) with practical delivery experience running teams and shipping compliant de-identification services for HIPAA/GDPR contexts. He is comfortable across on-prem, hybrid and multi-cloud deployments and has repeatedly translated regulatory requirements into configurable, production-grade services. Based in Markham, Ontario, he pairs a McGill computer science background with a curiosity-driven approach—summed up by his GitHub bio “Interested in everything”—that drives cross-disciplinary problem-solving. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture that balances performance, privacy, and operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at McGill University
English, French
Stackoverflow
25reputation
543reached
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Github Skills (24)
uitableviewcell8
stock7
hugo-theme7
drag7
alfred-workflow7
xml6
swift6
uikit6
monospace6
uitableview6
parsing6
css6
ruby6
tableview6
ios6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dricard/Nouilles
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch, 7 issues in 2 years
dricard/dolog
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Swift script to use with Alfred Workflow to log tasks in Day One
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 2 months
alfredswift-scriptdayalfred-workflowswift
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