Summary
Pascal Deschênes is a senior business analyst and security-focused product strategist with 11 years of experience translating complex regulatory and technical constraints into actionable SaaS security solutions. At Desjardins he has led SSPM, secret-detection, BAS, SIEM migrations and PAM initiatives—consistently delivering requirements, RFPs and acceptance criteria in multi-week cadences that accelerate procurement and deployment. Entrepreneurial and hands-on, he founded FirePress and earlier startups, giving him full‑stack development chops and an operator’s view of hosting, DevOps and product-market fit. Comfortable at the intersection of compliance (PCI, SOC2, ISO, Loi 25) and engineering, he designs automatable controls and integrates tooling across SIEM/SOAR, CI/CD and cloud platforms. Pascal also teaches blockchain and has a knack for simplifying technical risk into pragmatic roadmaps—an attribute rooted in a background that ranges from military discipline to studio entrepreneurship.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
DEC, Programmeur-analyste, DEC, Programmeur-analyste at CDI College, Toronto
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French, English