Etienne Fortin
Practice Lead Agentic AI at Banque Nationale du Canada
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEtienne Fortin is a technology leader with over two decades of engineering and management experience and eight years focused on strategic roles in cloud, low-code and agentic AI at Banque Nationale du Canada. He combines a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering with hands-on backgrounds in software, electronics and product development from roles at Bombardier and Technologies SENSIO, enabling him to translate complex technical opportunities into clear business cases and pilots. Known for bridging research and production, he has led cloud adoption, low-code democratization and now agentic AI practice workstreams that empower business teams to build safe, scalable solutions. Etienne’s strength is strategic vision paired with program-level execution: he designs de-risking proofs of concept and aligns multidisciplinary stakeholders to deliver measurable value. He particularly excels at spotting where emerging digital tech (AR/VR/AI/data) can multiply productivity in traditional engineering settings. Based in Montreal, he blends technical depth with commercial savvy, often acting as mediator between engineering, product and executive stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Mechanical Engineering, Master, Mechanical Engineering at École de technologie supérieureTechnician, Mechanical engineering, Technician, Mechanical engineering at CEGEP - Vieux-MontréalÉcole aux Quatres Vents
English, French
Github Skills (83)
measurement10
units-of-measurement10
quantities10
dotnet10
powershell10
versioning10
measurements10
delegates10
quantity10
bit10
csharp10
converter10
parse10
dotnet-core10
unit-converter10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ebfortin/UnitsNet
Jul 2019 - Dec 2023
Makes life working with units of measurement just a little bit better.
Contributions:4 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
paniczonesunitsmeasurementbit
ebfortin/primoris.universe.stargen
May 2019 - May 2019
Stargen port to the open source and multi-platform .NET Core 3+ framework.
Contributions:1 commit, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
dotnetaspnetfluentvalidationmulti-platformnet-core
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