Taylor Aucoin

➤ Fractional CTO Engagement: Embedded as fractional CTO for a multi-entity family office, owning full technical strategy, stack selection, and architecture across a unified platform serving five business entities with distinct operational domains.
➤ Architecture from Scratch: Designed and implemented a Turborepo monorepo with a shared Prisma/Supabase/PostgreSQL data layer, establishing a unified C

Version 3 (Hybrid Search Engine Marketplace, Sept 2024–Present)
• Built a data-centric “virtual mall” platform connecting thousands of independent sellers across Etsy, Shopify, and beyond.
• Enables users to explore styles across multiple marketplaces with click-through to original product pages, centralizing the festival fashion ecosystem.
• Developed a custom ML recommendation engine using Tenso

Over five years I led 15 BCIT ISSP cohorts across 13 student teams, sponsoring real-world software projects through Agora and personal side ventures. At peak I directed four simultaneous groups in a single term. Every project delivered against actual production requirements — not academic exercises.

Delivered across cohorts:
• E-commerce checkout backbone: cart, shipping addresses, Canada Post an

Led multiple BCIT Industry Sponsored Student Projects (ISSP) cohorts, sponsoring real-world production software projects through Agora and side ventures. Provided technical leadership, scoping, sprint planning, wireframe/ERD reviews, code reviews, and mentorship across e-commerce, ML recommendation, Elasticsearch, and seller infrastructure projects.

Served as a founding/CTO-track engineer for Everbook, responsible for full-stack architecture, schema design, and deployment pipelines. Built core systems including an OpenAI Whisper + Realtime speech-to-speech interview experience, a Puppeteer-based print-ready book generation engine, and multi-stage checkout flows.

First engineer hired to build the Everbook platform — an AI-assisted storytelling product that helps families capture and print their life stories through interactive interviews and custom-designed books. Everbook, founded by the creator of Looka and VentureKit, sought to expand AI’s role in memoir creation through narrative intelligence, voice interviews, and automated book design.

• Served as d

[Sponsored by Agora Art]

• Sponsored 3 projects for 3 design teams during a design hackathon associated with Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
• Prepared a comprehensive documentation series outlining context, goals, objectives, vision, and deliverables.
• One of the teams advanced to the final round, presenting live at the University's theatre room.

• Agreed upon initial hire that I was to elevate into the Tech Pilot / Project Lead role upon the completion of the current project and the acquisition of the next client. My involvement in business development began to help generate new business after current efforts did not deliver.
• Designed operational systems aimed at acquiring new clients and fostering long-term partnerships.
• Represented

[Representing Agora Art]

Participated in the LOI Labs Accelerator Program, a comprehensive 12-week virtual program dedicated to nurturing young entrepreneurs under 30. This unique experience combined aspects of an educational course and startup accelerator, offering valuable insights into business development, growth strategies, and innovation. Key highlights include:

• Gained access to a nation

• Developed a participant-facing booking application for a bulk hotel booking platform, analogous to Airbnb.
• Transformed design specs into fully functional front-end applications, ensuring pixel-perfect execution.
• Self-managed contributions and performed my own QA, maintaining high standards of code quality and stability.
• Tech Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, React.js, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, A

Developed and maintained Calculate-next, a React web application used in clinical environments, including a live version within Medscape, and previously owned the Learn frontend. Led the web-client rebuild of Read by QxMD before leaving the company.

• Owned the codebase for each of the applications and translated design specifications into pixel-perfect and functionally accurate products.
• Creat

• Designed and developed a cutting-edge client application for a cryptocurrency alert system with a live updating dashboard and candlestick chart using websockets, from initial wireframe development to completion.
• Utilized industry best practices to create highly efficient and effective React components, which led to the successful maintenance of over 1000 paying users. Additionally, built sever

• Spearheaded the development efforts as the sole developer for an established startup in the forestry industry, creating a cutting-edge product focused on data analytics derived from drone imagery and hosted on Mapbox GL.
• Took charge of the technical direction and design for the application, leveraging extensive experience in the field to ensure that the product was optimized for performance an