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.
65 acres in the family, and hunting grounds across Québec.
For over 35 years, my parents, my sister and I have looked after 65 acres of forest in the Appalachians. We work it mainly for firewood, which heats the houses, garages and cabin across the whole family, plus a bit of lumber. Within ten years, I'd like to add a small sugarbush.
I also have access to more than 500 acres of agroforestry land in the Eastern Townships for hunting, where I'm experimenting with native prairie restoration on old fallow fields. The effect on wildlife, plants and pollinators shows up fast.
I hunt across Québec: wild turkey, migratory birds, moose, deer, small game. Appalachians, Charlevoix, Eastern Townships, Lotbinière. And every year, the SEPAQ draws, with no real illusions about the odds.
An off-grid cabin, rebuilt in cycles over ten years.
We built a four-season off-grid cabin on the family land, which I've been rebuilding in cycles for ten years: the solar system is on its third iteration, propane handles backup heat, cooking and hot water, on top of the steady upkeep a cabin this age demands.
It's a multi-generational project. I'd like my boys to bring their own kids here one day.
The forest work and the upkeep take machinery. I keep up what I call my grown-up toys: enough to take on the work of making the most of the woodlot.
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.