Harry Sharma
President & COO at Ottawa Education Group
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolHarry Sharma is a strategy and innovation executive with over a decade of hands-on leadership experience and more than 20 years in the broader private and public sectors, currently serving as President & COO of Ottawa Education Group. He co-founded and advises startups such as Bevey and previously led ForwardHop as CEO, blending entrepreneurial grit with institutional innovation through roles at Carleton University and The Conference Board of Canada. Harry has a technical foundation with an M.Eng. from the University of Ottawa and a BSc from RIT, and he specializes in translating policy, research and technology initiatives into scalable programs and partnerships. Known for navigating academia, government, and startup ecosystems, he builds bridges between stakeholders to accelerate commercialization and education outcomes. A less obvious strength is his track record of moving between operational leadership and strategic policy roles, giving him rare fluency in both execution and systems-level thinking.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) at University of Ottawa / Université d'OttawaBSc Honors, BSc Honors at Rochester Institute of Technology
Hindi, French
Github Skills (37)
caf10
installer8
idp8
powershell7
docker6
saml6
ansible5
java5
operation5
single-sign-on5
kubernetes4
rundeck4
devops4
automation4
aggregates4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
canariecaf/docker-cds-CAF
Oct 2016 - Jun 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
canariecaf/idp-installer-CAF
Dec 2014 - Jan 2018
The CAF managed version of the idp-installer
Contributions:1 release, 51 commits, 62 PRs in 3 years 1 month
installercafidp
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