Summary
Gabriel Bourgault is a platform engineering leader and former founder with nine years of experience building resilient, large-scale web systems from Montreal. At Genetec he led the team behind the company-wide SSO and now heads Platform Engineering, delivering an internal platform for deployment, hosting and observability. He has operated globally distributed Kubernetes services handling tens of millions of requests per month with 99.95% uptime, built a PKI and integrated many OIDC providers. Gabriel combines hands-on engineering with people leadership—rebuilding critical authentication infrastructure in under six months and running public experiment reviews to spread learning. His background includes founding a web agency that retained long-term clients and practical teaching and supervisory roles as a ski instructor, demonstrating customer focus and team development outside tech. He holds engineering degrees from Polytechnique Montréal and completed Genetec’s leadership program at HEC Montréal, blending technical depth with formal management training.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Industrial engineering with a focus on team management and information technology project management, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Industrial engineering with a focus on team management and information technology project management at Polytechnique Montréal
Programme de leadership Genetec, Programme de leadership Genetec at HEC Montréal
DEC Sciences de la nature, DEC Sciences de la nature at Cégep Gérald-Godin
French, English