Michaël Bontyes
Director Of Programs And Digital Health at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Luxembourg
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMichaël Bontyes is a digital health leader with over a decade of experience delivering programs and engineering solutions for global health and humanitarian contexts. As Director of Programs and Digital Health at Madiro and technical lead seconded to Médecins Sans Frontières, he has steered open-source products recognized as Global Goods by the UN and Digital Public Goods Alliance. He blends hands-on technical program management, data analytics and EMR expertise with a background in nonprofit management and HR, enabling pragmatic, people-centered implementations in low- and middle-income countries. Inspired by a formative high school project that demonstrated technology’s life-changing potential, he focuses on sustainable, community-empowering innovation rather than tech for tech’s sake. Based in Montreal, he pairs cross-cultural field experience with institutional partnerships to translate complex requirements into usable digital tools. Colleagues value him for translating mission-driven goals into scalable, auditable systems that prioritize equity and long-term impact.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Social Action and Engineering, Non profit sector management, Master, with Greatest Honours, Master in Social Action and Engineering, Non profit sector management, Master, with Greatest Honours at Haute École de Namur-Liège-Luxembourg (Hénallux)École d’été en agriculture urbaine, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning, École d’été en agriculture urbaine, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning at Université du Québec à MontréalBA Human Resources Management, Management, Bachelor, with Honours, BA Human Resources Management, Management, Bachelor, with Honours at HELHa — Haute École Louvain en Hainaut
French, English, néérlandais, Spanish
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Github Skills (47)
x-plane10
interoperability9
emr9
levenshtein-distance9
openflow9
ocg9
dhis29
frontend8
network-automation8
juniper8
react8
angularjs8
wordpress8
underscores8
hospital-management-system8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MadiroGlobalHealth/UVL-EMR
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
OpenMRS 3 repository for Ubuntu Village of Life in Burundi - Madiro's HealthTech Challenge 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 27 PRs, 55 pushes in 8 months
digitalhealthdigitalpublicgoodshealthtechopenmrs
MSF-OCG/LIME-EMR-project-demo
Apr 2023 - May 2024
A demo of OpenMRS 3.x EMR using configurations (not a distro)
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 169 PRs in 1 year 1 month
digitalhealthdockerelectronic-medical-recordsemrfhir
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