Michaël Bontyes
Director Of Programs And Digital Health at Madiro
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 (43)
x-plane10
interoperability9
wordpress-themes9
ubuntu9
emr9
levenshtein-distance9
openflow9
ocg9
dhis29
juniper9
frontend8
docker8
react8
openmrs8
angularjs8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
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
openmrsdigitalhealthdockeremrmsf
MadiroGlobalHealth/UVL-EMR
Jul 2024 - Apr 2026
OpenMRS 3 distribution for Ubuntu Village of Life (UVL) in Burundi - 1st OpenMRS 3 implementation in Burundi 🏥 - Started by Madiro's HealthTech Challenge 2024, now in production and recognized by the Ministry of Health 🇧🇮
Contributions:3 reviews, 30 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 9 months
openmrsubuntudigitalhealthdigitalpublicgoodshealthtech
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