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Pascal Gehl

@pascalgehl

Technical Director translating scalable engineering strategy into secure, high-performance architectures and measurable business growth.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to partner with leadership as a hands-on engineering strategist—building secure, scalable cloud architectures and high-performance teams, aligning roadmaps with KPIs, and delivering measurable time-to-market and operational efficiency gains.

I’m a technology leader with over 15 years bridging complex engineering execution with sustainable business growth. I translate technical complexity into clear business outcomes, ensuring engineering becomes a core engine of growth—not a bottleneck.

As a Technical Director, I champion a self-service engineering culture to maximize studio-wide efficiency. I developed shared assets for Security, Observability, and Reliability, acted as hands-on architect for scalable core infrastructure, and scaled the Core-Tech department through coaching and cross-team collaboration.

I specialize in modern architecture and cloud transformation—microservices, cloud-native strategies, and digital modernization. At scale, I lead risk mitigation and strategic cost optimization, including a comprehensive AWS infrastructure audit/refactor that resulted in over $1M USD in annual OpEx savings, while improving efficiency without sacrificing performance or reliability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Technical Director

Current

Ludia

Mar 2021 - Present (5 years 1 month)

Championed a self-service engineering culture to empower game teams and improve studio-wide efficiency. Drove security, observability, and reliability standardization and delivered over $1M USD in annual OpEx savings through cloud infrastructure refactoring and automated scaling.

Engineering Leadership Microservices Cloud Architecture & Security Observability Reliability Engineering Cost Optimization Mentoring

Senior Technical Lead

Ludia

Jun 2020 - Mar 2021 (9 months)

Led core technology initiatives focused on scaling engineering delivery across teams in support of studio growth. Continued strengthening engineering practices around operational excellence and dependable infrastructure.

Engineering Leadership Distributed Systems Cloud Architecture Reliability Microservices

Software Architect

Playtika

Apr 2016 - Apr 2020 (4 years)

Architected AWS back-end components for a social poker game and led the transition from a servlet/Jetty monolith to a reactive microservices architecture using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. Built and operated messaging, data stores, networking, and security for production workloads.

Java AWS Microservices Spring Boot Kafka DynamoDB Kubernetes

Technical Lead & Security

Mnubo

Aug 2014 - Nov 2015 (1 year 3 months)

Led teams of front-end JavaScript developers while owning back-end design and implementations. Served as system-wide SaaS application security lead, implementing OAuth2, strong encryption, and security best practices across microservices and real-time data experiences.

OAUTH2 Application Security Encryption Microservices HTML5

Technical Lead & Architect

Nuance Communications

Aug 2008 - Jul 2014 (5 years 11 months)

Architected multi-tenant cloud speech recognition SaaS for large-scale deployments (2000+ servers across multiple data centers) with 99.999% uptime and performance SLAs. Standardized build and CI practices by introducing Maven with Artifactory and establishing early CI tooling using Bamboo and Fisheye/Crucible.

Cloud Architecture Distributed Systems Maven Artifactory Continuous Integration

Java Software Architect

Kronos

Dec 2005 - Aug 2008 (2 years 8 months)

Technical architect and tech lead on an Ajax web project using Hibernate and Spring, with ZK as the Java AJAX framework. Defined architecture for a resource planning product for airline companies and led a 10+ developer team while introducing Agile and TDD/CI practices.

Java Hibernate Spring ZK (Java AJAX)Agile Development TDD Continuous Integration Performance Tuning

J2EE Software Architect

Nurun

Apr 2004 - Sep 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Defined and documented software/system architecture using UML and supported pre-contract estimates and technical requirements for client solutions. Delivered J2EE architecture with Struts 1.2, Spring, and Hibernate, and introduced unit testing with JUnit and HttpUnit.