Nicolas Gignac
Team Lead In Artificial Intelligence (AI) And GIS at Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS)
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorNicolas Gignac is a seasoned GIS and AI team lead based in Quebec with 12 years of experience architecting geospatial solutions for public safety, disaster risk reduction and government operations. He combines deep technical expertise in both proprietary and open-source GIS stacks (ArcGIS, PostGIS, MapServer, OpenLayers, QGIS) with hands-on Earth observation and remote sensing analysis used in international projects across Jamaica and El Salvador. As a former lecturer and long-time coordinator of geomatics programs, he excels at translating complex spatial problems for stakeholders, managing cross-functional teams and delivering operational GIS enterprise systems. Fluent in English and French, he is recognized for building Open Source GIS chapters and forging partnerships with UN agencies, demonstrating a rare mix of field-level disaster response experience and strategic technology leadership.
12 years of coding experience
French, English, Spanish
Github Skills (60)
gis10
sos10
offline-maps9
javascript9
osgeo9
geospatial9
gdal9
wfs9
mapserver9
openlayers9
geo9
pot9
angular9
gml8
osrm8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gignacnic/igo2-tq-app
May 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 year 8 months
geo-msp/ckan
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
portalsdatadata-catalogmanagement-systemdata-management
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