Nearly a decade building platforms that survive past the demo.

THE EXPERIENCE

I’m Hugo Paquet, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of Quantumize AI, based in Montreal. The through-line in my work is designing and building data, AI, and application platforms that teams can actually operate.

At CAE, I led design and delivery of a data management and governance platform. Catalog, acquisition, ingestion, quality, exploration, all anchored in metadata. Orchestrated on Kubernetes, secure consumption on Databricks.

The stack is rarely the real blocker. Operating it is.

I also drove prioritization of platform capabilities with engineering teams, so the design didn’t stay on a whiteboard. Architecture without build isn’t architecture.

At MTY Food Group, I architected the data and AI platform for a multi-banner group, and the applications that consume it. The hard part was making that data actionable through app surfaces instead of just available in a lake.

The CAE and MTY work was delivered in prior operating roles, before Quantumize AI.

Earlier at CAE Rise, I built Python and C#/.NET microservices, near-real-time analytics, and Azure infrastructure, working right next to operations. Platforms make more sense close to the field.

Today, with Quantumize AI (quantumizeai.com), we’re building AI platforms that shrink the distance between intent and technical execution.