Guillaume Cauchon
I build systems that last: connected medical devices, web platforms, a house, a cabin, the family woodlot, habitat for wildlife and native plants
R&D Coordinator, Connected Solutions at Umano Medical
I lead the Connected Solutions team at Umano Medical, building a range of products that link our medical devices to the digital ecosystem of care facilities. I also help make applied AI part of how we work, in our tools and our daily practice.
The challenge isn't technical: it's moving the right information, at the right moment, through environments where a mistake can cause irreversible harm.
The team ships in .NET and Vue.js. On my own time, I keep up my interest in OTP with elixir and phoenix, and explore the devops side of cloud with an Infrastructure as Code approach.
A 65-acre family land, and a territory across Quebec.
For more than 35 years, my parents, my sister and I have maintained a 65-acre family land in the Appalachians. The forest is worked mostly for firewood and a bit of lumber for our own projects, with a portable sawmill that cuts our logs on site. Within the next decade I'd like to add a small personal sugarbush.
I also have access to more than 500 acres of agroforestry land in the Eastern Townships for my hunting territory, where I'm experimenting with native prairie restoration on former farmland. The impact on wildlife, flora and pollinators shows up fast.
I hunt across Quebec: wild turkey, migratory birds, moose, white-tailed deer, small game. Chaudière-Appalaches, Charlevoix, Eastern Townships, Lotbinière. And the SEPAQ reserve draws each year, without much illusion about the odds.
Off-grid building, kept and rebuilt in cycles.
We built a four-season off-grid cabin on the family land that I've been modernizing in cycles for the last decade: third generation of the solar setup, propane optimized for backup heating, cooking and hot water, plus the maintenance a cabin of that age demands.
It's a multi-generational project. I hope to see my grandchildren carry it forward.
Build, maintain, repair — same posture as code, applied to wood, metal, engine. I try to keep the right tools for the job.
Lévis, the family, the family land.
I live in Lévis, in a house I co-designed with an architect friend and partially built myself.
When I leave the keyboard, I spend as much time as possible outside — with my family, or on the family land. A father of two boys, fully.
Twenty years, seven chapters.
I came to software through math, curiosity, and a taste for untangling problems. Computer science at Université de Sherbrooke, in a co-op program — the only one of its kind at the time.
- 2025 — now
R&D Coordinator, Connected Solutions
The role that aligns what every previous chapter taught me: healthcare, architecture, R&D leadership, applied AI, and a real product to carry. The team builds Umano Connect, the integration layer between our medical devices and the digital ecosystem of healthcare facilities.
- 2022 — 2025
Advisor, Strategy and Technology
MIREGO · returnA hybrid role between strategy and technology: representing the agency at industry events, advising clients on product decisions, leading workshops on integrating AI into business operations. The chapter that confirmed what actually drives me.
- 2021 — 2022
Director, Research & Development
Back to healthcare, leading the rebuild of a virtual-care platform on elixir / phoenix. Short tenure, useful confirmation: you can modernize a critical system without breaking what works.
- 2016 — 2021
Software Engineer
Almost five years to expand my technical reach beyond the Java/Spring ecosystem. A solid environment to work alongside developers who love the craft — elixir, react.
- 2014 — 2020
Founder
A SaaS platform that transformed how daycare educators communicated with parents. Six years of development, sales, support and operations alongside a full-time job. Sold in 2020 to an owner who still runs it today.
- 2010 — 2016
Architect → R&D Coordinator
Myca Health · Hello HealthHello Health: an EHR that generated revenue for clinics instead of costing them upfront. I grew from architect to R&D coordinator during the most chaotic period of U.S. healthcare IT.
- 2004 — 2009
Software Engineer
DataDirect TechnologiesMiddleware connecting mainframe systems to modern architectures for Fortune 500 enterprises. Useful early lesson: technical debt isn’t a generational problem, it’s a systems problem.