Mark 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
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Mark Pavlidis - Principal Consultant at Everly Inn