Mark Gaucher
Mark Gaucher
  • Staff Frontend Engineer

    January 2023 - Present

    • Leading a refactor of existing frontend infrastructure to enable per-tenant customization, facilitating company expansion into new business areas.
    • Partner with cross-functional teams (design, engineering, and product) to optimize development processes, refine sprint planning, enhance team structure, and streamline release management.
    • Act as the front-end technical lead, driving team strategy, architecture decisions, and mentorship to elevate team expertise and deliver high-quality solutions.
    • Led the migration of a React Native application to the Expo framework, enabling unified deployment across web, iOS, and Android platforms, improving development efficiency and user experience.
    • Partnered with engineering leadership to apply cutting-edge AI developer tools (Cursor, Windsurf), driving faster product development and improved engineering efficiency.

    Senior Software Engineer

    January 2020 - December 2022

    • Led the transition from native iOS and Android applications to React Native, reducing technical debt and streamlining cross-platform development efforts.
    • Participated in a weekly on-call rotation, ensuring 99.9% uptime for critical infrastructure relied upon by 250,000+ monthly active users.
    • Architected and maintained a robust cross-platform component library, ensuring consistent UI/UX and code reusability across multiple React and React Native applications.
    • Provided interim leadership for a team of five full-stack engineers, aligning project priorities and ensuring high-impact deliverables during a critical organizational period.

    Software Engineer

    January 2018 - December 2019

    • Led the rewrite of a large-scale front-end web application to improve scalability, performance, and maintainability.
    • Added new product features that enhanced user engagement and addressed customer needs, increasing daily active users by 50%.
  • Senior Developer

    November 2013 - October 2018

    • Contributed to all phases of the product development lifecycle, from ideation and design to development and deployment, delivering client-focused solutions.
    • Built production-ready web applications, implementing modern web development best practices and ensuring scalable and maintainable codebases.
    • Prototyped innovative product concepts for internal projects and client initiatives, driving new opportunities and enhancing stakeholder engagement.
  • Information Specialist (IS-03)

    January 2008 - August 2013

    • Ensured WCAG 2.0 AA compliance and cross-browser compatibility (IE 6+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera) for web-based content, delivering accessible and consistent user experiences.
    • Managed and maintained web content for high-profile Government of Canada agencies, delivering accurate and timely updates.
    • Contributed to cross-departmental working groups to improve design and engineering standards across Government of Canada web properties, driving innovation and consistency.