Guillaume Deflaux
Head Of GIS Products at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Chambéry, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolGuillaume Deflaux is a seasoned ICT4D technology leader with over a decade of product and operational experience and 20 years working at the intersection of humanitarian programs and digital tools. Currently Head of GIS Products at Médecins Sans Frontières, he has a track record of building and scaling mobile and web solutions—especially CommCare, DHIS2 integrations and data products—that improve frontline efficiency in health, child protection and emergency response. He has led engineering teams, run country operations, and served as CTO and founder, combining hands-on delivery (Django, Flutter, PowerBI pipelines) with strategic program design and fundraising support. Notably, Guillaume has repeatedly translated complex field workflows into scalable software—eg. national mHealth rollouts and EMR scale-ups—and emphasizes security risk management through his recent Somari work. Fluent in Russian and trained in real-time embedded systems and public health, he brings a rare blend of technical depth, operational rigor and sectoral domain knowledge.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Real Time And Embedded Computing, Engineer, Real Time And Embedded Computing at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en InformatiquePostgraduate Certificate in Public Health, Public Health, Postgraduate Certificate in Public Health, Public Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonCertificate, Russian language, Certificate, Russian language at Minsk State Linguistic University
French, English, Spanish, Russian
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Github Skills (141)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gdeflaux/sb-mobile
Apr 2016 - Apr 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 3 branches, 9 issues in 2 years
somari-io/www-v2
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 75 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
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