Summary
Guillaume Simard is an engineering manager and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable products and teams across fintech and cloud platforms. He has led rapid growth and migrations as CTO at Capdesk and scaled core microservices and fraud/payment integrations at Pleo, and now combines startup grit (co-founding Tola) with product-scale experience at Square. Comfortable from strategy to code, he prioritizes simple, shippable solutions and has created hiring and career frameworks that make remote teams work. Based in Quebec, he also founded Cabane.io, Quebec City's largest developer conference, showing a knack for community-building beyond day-to-day engineering. An engineer by training, he blends hands-on architecture with people leadership and a bias for shipping.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Software Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Software Engineering at Université Laval
French, English, Spanish