Mark Pavlidis
Principal Consultant at Flixel Software Ltd.
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Pavlidis is a product-focused Principal Consultant and former CTO with 13 years of software leadership experience building high-quality native Apple apps, backends (Python), and DevOps pipelines from idea to scale. He has a track record of shipping delightful, low-crash iOS/macOS products—winning an Apple Design Award and millions of downloads—while guiding startups as a fractional CTO on strategy, hiring, pricing and SaaS transitions. At Marketcircle he modernized engineering practices, slashed crash and incident rates, and led ISO 27001 information security efforts; at Flixel he combined hands-on engineering with product leadership to achieve operational profitability and improved retention. His background in symbolic timing analysis and embedded real-time systems gives him a rigorous, formal approach to quality that informs pragmatic product decisions. Based in Ontario, he also applies his technical skills to sustainability projects, running a net-zero B&B and supporting a local zero-emission car service.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.Sc., B.Eng&Mgt., CORS (Operational research) Diploma, Software Engineering, M.A.Sc., B.Eng&Mgt., CORS (Operational research) Diploma, Software Engineering at McMaster University
English, French
Github Skills (7)
macos10
ios10
tvos10
networking10
watchos10
state-machine5
swift4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mhpavl/Ehspresso
May 2015 - May 2019
Espresso is a Mealy-style finite state machine written in Swift.
Contributions:1 review, 11 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 11 months
state-machineswift
openbuilding-ca/objective
Oct 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 5 months
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