Jack Noppé
Board Of Directors, Chair at Connected Canadians
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Noppé is a seasoned technology and product executive with over 25 years of experience leading strategy, product investments, and high-performing teams across enterprise software, BI, analytics, and eCommerce. Currently chairing the board at Digital Trust Canada and serving leadership roles at ICTC-CTIC, he combines board governance with hands-on product and engineering instincts honed as CPO/CTO at firms like Intelex and Kinaxis. Known for market-focused strategy and stakeholder management, he has a track record of turning product roadmaps into profitable portfolios and improving customer retention at scale. He also contributes to open-source embedded tooling documentation, clarifying complex APIs for projects like probe-rs, reflecting a practical appreciation for maintainable developer-facing code. With an eMBA from Queen’s and a background that spans executive leadership to early technical architecture, he brings a rare mix of commercial rigor, technical depth, and a passion for customer value.
7 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Business Management, Diploma in Business Management at DamelineMBA, Executive MBA, eMBA, Executive MBA at Queen's University
Github Skills (7)
rust10
documentation10
sys9
debugging9
embedded9
arm8
risc-v8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
probe-rs/probe-rs
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
A debugging toolset and library for debugging embedded ARM and RISC-V targets on a separate host
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 release, 586 reviews, 535 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the improvement of documentation and comments within the codebase, with a focus on explaining the `Session` struct and its associated methods. They made a series of iterative updates to clarify the purpose of the functions and the usage of the handles to improve the code maintainability. They also added information about `Core` access methods.
armdebuggingrisc-vdebugrust
probe-rs/vscode
May 2021 - Jan 2023
VSCode debug extension for probe-rs. It uses the MS DAP protocol to communicate directly with the probe (via probe-rs), and supports basic command line debugging in addition to VSCode UI.
Contributions:11 releases, 48 reviews, 69 commits in 1 year 8 months
command-linedebuggingvscodeprobe-rsvscode-extension
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