Mathieu Gagné is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Montreal with 13 years of experience building and scaling web platforms across startups, agencies and corporate environments. He blends deep Ruby expertise (since 2010) with hands-on cloud engineering—managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform and Ansible—and a strong focus on developer experience, SRE and CI/CD. At Potloc he progressed from principal programmer to CTO, driving squad-based scaling, developer tooling, data engineering and ML Ops while mentoring teams and owning reliability and cost-effective technical trade-offs. Comfortable across the full stack, he has shipped real-time dashboards, data processing pipelines, custom CMS and eCommerce systems and prefers practical, test-driven solutions. A political science graduate with technical training, he brings an interdisciplinary curiosity that helps translate product goals into pragmatic engineering roadmaps.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Political Science, Bachelor Political Science at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
Human Sciences Human Sciences, Human Sciences Human Sciences at Cegep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Contributions:108 commits, 61 PRs, 143 pushes in 2 months
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Mathieu Gagné - Chief Technology Officer at Potloc