Colin Gagnon
Co-Founder & CTO at PowerTree
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolColin Gagnon is a pragmatic engineering leader and serial founder with over a decade building web and data-driven products from prototype to production. As Co-Founder & CTO at PowerTree and former CTO of Gazelle.ai, he blends hands-on expertise in React/Redux front-ends, Go and Python backends, and applied machine learning to turn messy industrial and business data into actionable products. He’s equally comfortable designing APIs, implementing search and ranking systems, or crafting reusable component libraries, and has repeatedly led small teams through validation, deployment and scaling. Known as a “mad scientist” and lifetime student, he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with operational rigor—often automating manual workflows that others tolerate. Based in Montreal, he brings an uncommon mix of product intuition, mentorship, and low-level engineering craft forged across startups and consulting engagements.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
CIS, Business, CIS, Business at Mount Royal UniversityCS, CS at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
English, French
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Github Skills (34)
google-docs9
google-apps8
mongoose8
google-workspace8
expressjs7
dynamodb7
boilerplate6
endpoint6
google6
nodejs6
json6
mongodb5
rest-api5
lambda5
sdk5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
techcoop/boilerplate-mongoose-api
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Yet another basic express / mongoose REST API boilerplate
Contributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 months
apiapi-boilerplateboilerplateexpressjsexpress-mongoose
techcoop/json-google-docs
Jun 2017 - May 2018
Uses Google Apps Scripts with Google Docs to provide a document tree in JSON exposed on a GET URL for integration into anything.
Contributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 11 months
googlegoogle-apps-scriptsgoogle-docsgoogle-appsgoogle-workspace
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