ABOUT PHIL GIRARD

Software engineer. MBA. Forward-deployed by choice.

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Phil Girard
SOFTWARE ENGINEER, MBA
phil@pgmcs.ai
Montréal, Canada
English · French

I'm a forward-deployed engineer. I embed inside GTM, Finance, and the process work between them, build the systems those teams run on, then wire agentic AI into them so they don't just record what happened — they help decide what happens next.

That means two things at once: the unglamorous work of consolidating scattered data into something governed and correct, and the newer work of putting AI on top of it — agents that reason over the system of record, evaluate their own output, and hand exceptions to a human instead of guessing. I've done both sides as an individual contributor, as an architect, and as the person leadership calls in when the current stack has run out of road.

MBA WGU — 2015
Software Engineer ÉTS — 2011
Technical Degree, Coding LaSalle — 2007
Consulting career, in brief

Finished the SWE degree

The paper that started it.

Wanted to see the world — France

First taste of consulting.

Back to Canada after 3 years

SaaS, GTM and finance.

Half time in SF

Came to test technology, stayed for it.

Covid, 3 kids, corporate

Head of architecture at an IBM spinoff.

An old customer brought me back

Architecture, finance, FinOps.

Started new consulting company

Forward-deployed engineering, on my own terms.

Get in touch

Let's talk about what you're building.

I take on a small number of engagements at a time — enough to actually own the outcome, not just advise on it.

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LOCATIONMontréal, Canada
LANGUAGESEnglish · French