Simon Gooder
Product Lead For Customer-Facing AI at Flight Centre Travel Group
Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolSimon Gooder is a product leader and builder with a decade of experience turning web and design skills into customer-facing products and startups. After transitioning from hospitality to web development, he scaled from freelance web design to leading product and UX at Spotful and later RareCircles, growing into product lead roles focused on innovation and AI-driven customer experiences. He co-founded Permapeople, a regenerative marketplace that revealed his knack for community-led growth and niche marketplace dynamics around seeds, produce, and textiles. Currently shaping customer-facing AI at Flight Centre while launching retention-focused ventures like CHCKN and GiftCardReminders, he blends hands-on design, user research, and product strategy to ship practical MVPs and SaaS features. Simon’s uncommon strength is translating grassroots community signals into product opportunities—turning local-market adoption trends into repeatable product playbooks. Based in Quebec, he pairs a BCIT new-media background with real-world startup grit and cross-functional leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Continuing Education, Continuing Education at VCC
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Github Skills (51)
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
vscode10
oembed10
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
visual-studio9
rdf8
structured-data8
prototyping8
plug-and-play8
plug8
spec8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
simgooder/slimStarterkit
Nov 2015 - Nov 2020
A project starterkit for small projects. Includes an unassuming, basic plug-and-play toolkit for quick in-browser prototyping.
Contributions:56 commits, 1 PR, 56 pushes in 5 years
boilerplatebrowserjavascriptprototypingplug-and-play
Complai/styleguide
May 2020 - Dec 2020
Shep Developer Styleguide
Contributions:3 PRs, 63 pushes in 8 months
styleguidestylelint
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