Sébastien Lavoie
Senior Analyst - Centre For Demography at Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSébastien Lavoie is a senior demography analyst and data-focused manager with a decade of experience turning complex population data into actionable policy and public-facing products across federal and provincial governments. He leads redevelopment of subprovincial estimation systems at Statistics Canada, managing contracts and projects while writing detailed business requirements and supervising IT implementation and testing. With strong hands-on skills in R, Python, SQL, Tableau and advanced Excel, he has built reproducible R workflows that cut certification time by up to two weeks and developed R Shiny apps and database tooling to modernize dissemination. His background in astrophysics and peer-reviewed research informs a rigorous quantitative mindset and an ability to see the big picture while handling technical detail. Fluent in English and French, he combines stakeholder-facing communications (including media briefings) with technical leadership on sensitive data projects such as on-reserve population estimates and secure RDC operations.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Astronomy, Master of Science (MSc), Astronomy at Université LavalPhD Candidate, Astronomy, PhD Candidate, Astronomy at University of VictoriaCollege degree in Natural Sciences, Applied Science, College degree in Natural Sciences, Applied Science at Cégep de Victoriaville
English, French
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
seblav/DEM_learnR
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 months
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