Gary Haran
Founder at Fresh
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolGary Haran is a founder and seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience building and scaling product teams and full-stack systems from Montreal. He moves fluidly between hands-on engineering—shipping cross-platform mobile and web features—and people leadership, having grown teams from a dozen to 70+ developers across time zones at Shopify and accelerated hiring and retention at Circle Medical. Gary has a track record of driving measurable product impact, including significant attendance and efficiency lifts via growth experiments and optimized landing flows. Technically versatile, he’s delivered everything from Kotlin Multiplatform mobile map tooling to high-performance web APIs and operational tooling that reduced support ticket times fivefold. He blends entrepreneurial instinct with engineering discipline—co-founding startups, selling products, and introducing processes like Kaizen and idea meritocracy to drive continuous improvement. Outside work he balances coding and team management with family life as a French-French-Canadian father who still loves to get his hands dirty in ambitious technical projects.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Information Technology, Diploma Information Technology at College de l'Acadie
French, English
Stackoverflow
687reputation
34kreached
6answers
7questions
Github Skills (65)
coverage10
test-coverage10
zenhub9
chat-application9
code-coverage9
browser-detection8
ruby8
testing8
actioncontroller8
identity7
chat7
authentication7
geonames7
socket-io7
coordinates7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
garyharan/time-range-selector
Nov 2008 - Dec 2008
Contributions:30 commits in 14 days
garyharan/garyharan.github.io
May 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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