Martin Magdinier
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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RockstarMartin Magdinier is a product manager and independent consultant with 13 years of experience helping organizations turn data into operational advantage across healthcare, SaaS, and open-source communities. He has led product development and operations at scale—directing Unifyd’s SaaS analytics platform, co-founding Provider Directory to process millions of records for Canada’s health claims, and founding RefinePro to deliver reusable data integration practices. Martin combines pragmatic engineering sensibilities with change leadership, improving client data accuracy by 95% and cutting project timelines by 40% while building low‑turnover, remote teams. An active steward of the OpenRefine project, he transitioned it to a sustainable grants-backed model and forged partnerships with Wikimedia and CZI, showing a rare blend of community governance and product focus. Based in Montreal, he emphasizes long-term, values-aligned solutions that simplify processes, empower people, and make technology quietly effective.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,737reputation
201kreached
66answers
13questions
Github Skills (72)
hugo10
data-wrangling10
wikidata10
data-science10
java10
data-analysis10
openrefine10
reconciliation10
journalism10
portal8
database7
blueprint7
slack7
visualization7
data-cleaning6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
RBGKew/OpenRefine
Dec 2012 - Feb 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 1 year 1 month
pythondata-scienceopenrefinepowerimproving
OpenRefine/openrefine.org
Jan 2013 - Dec 2022
Source website for openrefine.org
Contributions:48 reviews, 146 commits, 114 PRs in 10 years
hugoopenrefine
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