Marcย Abbyad
Software Consultant at Freelance
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMarc Abbyad is a seasoned software consultant and product leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling digital health solutions for hard-to-reach communities. As former Chief Product Officer at Medic, he grew a distributed product team, scaled the open-source Community Health Toolkit across multiple ministries of health, and launched an entrepreneur accelerator to strengthen local capacity. He combines hands-on engineering (web, firmware, wireless comms) with strategic product management, rapidly prototyping pragmatic solutions in digital health, AI-powered road safety, and remote monitoring. An active contributor to the CHT core framework, his front-end and internationalization work improved usability for multilingual deployments. Based in Kingston, Ontario, he pairs a BEng in Software Engineering and an MSc in Bioresource Engineering to approach problems with both technical rigor and systems thinking. Colleagues describe him as a rapid problem-solver who surfaces the right questions to turn complex constraints into actionable, user-centered products.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software Engineering at Concordia UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Bioresource Engineering, Master of Science (MSc), Bioresource Engineering at McGill University - Macdonald Campus
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
medic/cht-core
Jun 2013 - Dec 2022
The CHT Core Framework makes it faster to build responsive, offline-first digital health apps that equip health workers to provide better care in their communities. It is a central resource of the Community Health Toolkit.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 296 commits, 46 PRs in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on front-end development, making iterative improvements to the user interface. Their contributions included changing icons, modifying button styles, and updating the layout of various pages. The user also worked on internationalization by adding Spanish and French language messages. Furthermore, they addressed UI issues by resizing and refactoring elements on the pages, enhancing the user experience.
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medic/cht-docs
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Documentation site for the Community Health Tookit
Contributions:206 reviews, 265 commits, 128 PRs in 2 years 8 months
healthtookitdocumentation-sitechtcommunity-health
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