Eugene Girard is a retired technology leader with 14 years of formal industry experience and a multi-decade engineering career that culminated in a Tech Lead/Manager role at Google from 2011–2025. He previously served as VP Technology at the PYXIS innovation and held senior architecture roles at Synomos and Zero Knowledge Systems, bringing deep systems and security-oriented architecture experience. Educated in Computing and Information Science at Queen’s University, he combines rigorous academic roots with hands-on leadership across startups and large-scale platforms. Now self-employed and based in Canada, he pairs strategic product insight with practical engineering instincts, having guided teams through both early-stage innovation and enterprise-scale delivery. An understated strength is his continuity across the full lifecycle—from low-level software design to executive technology strategy—making him adept at translating complex technical tradeoffs into operational decisions.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MSC (partial) Computing and Information Science, MSC (partial) Computing and Information Science at Queen's University, Kingston
BScH Computing and Information Science, BScH Computing and Information Science at Queen's University
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