Nicholas Nadeau
Co-Founder CTO at XMachina
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Nadeau is a Canadian technology leader and Co-Founder/CTO with 11 years of experience building human-system collaboration and what he brands as Personal Intelligence™. He has a rare blend of deep robotics and AI research (PhD-level mechatronics) and hands-on startup execution, founding or advising numerous ventures across AI, robotics, healthcare, and hardtech. Nicholas frequently serves as a fractional CTO, mentor, and board advisor—helping early-stage teams turn lab-grade systems into scalable products and commercial strategies. He currently leads Onix while also driving Canada’s hardtech renaissance as President of Garage&co and connecting AI to capital through AI Salon’s Montreal chapter. Beyond product and engineering, he invests in public AI growth and consults on strategic AI adoption for executives, signaling a focus on both technology and ecosystem building. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of moving highly regulated, safety-critical robotics and biomedical systems from R&D into deployed solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at École de technologie supérieureDEC Honours Health Science, DEC Honours Health Science at Dawson CollegeBachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (200)
kinematics10
metadata10
numerics10
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linter10
forestry10
robotics10
sarif10
doi10
structural-engineering10
computer-vision10
fonts10
fundamental10
data-science10
static-site-generator10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
nnadeau/nnadeau.github.io
Apr 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:16 PRs, 196 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 2 months
personal-blog-websiteblog-website
engnadeau/cv
Jan 2018 - Nov 2022
My personal CV that's automatically generated using the following tech stack: LaTeX, XeTeX, GitHub Actions, Docker, GitHub Pages, Jamstack
Contributions:51 releases, 214 commits, 62 PRs in 4 years 10 months
roboticsxetexpdfstatic-sitegithub-actions-docker
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