Summary
Mark Hayes is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building and leading web and frontend engineering efforts, currently driving architecture and delivery at CHG Healthcare. He favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions that prioritize simplicity, collaboration, and long-term reduction of tech debt, with deep expertise in frontend performance and React/Redux migrations. Mark has led launches of production React projects, extended backend APIs to support new UX needs, and contributed to the widely used Foundation front-end framework, improving its components and build artifacts. Comfortable as both a hands-on engineer and team coach, he routinely does code reviews, pair programming, and mentorship to raise team quality. Based in Maine, he pairs startup CTO experience with enterprise delivery discipline, consistently turning complex requirements into testable, easy-to-understand systems.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
California State University, Sacramento