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Hayden Meloche

Engineering leader and builder

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Experience

Pine

Toronto, Ontario

Head of Engineering, Product & Design

2023–Present
  • Led end-to-end engineering across Pine's core product suite, including a proprietary loan origination system responsible for $2B+ in deals, a consumer-facing home search website and mobile app, and a mortgage servicing platform with direct bank integrations pulling $500K+ in mortgage payments per day and handling investor remittance.
  • Built and scaled a cross-functional organization of 20+ spanning engineering, product, and design while developing best practices, playbooks, and AI tooling adoption frameworks to accelerate team growth and operational efficiency.
  • Drove product strategy and roadmap prioritization in partnership with product managers and designers, aligning technical execution with business goals across the full mortgage lifecycle—from home search to origination to servicing.

Founding Engineer

2021–2023
  • Joined Pine as the first engineering hire, helping grow the company from $0 to $100M in funded mortgages and laying the technical foundation for the company's core infrastructure.
  • Mentored and leveled up a growing engineering team, conducting code reviews, collaborating on architecture decisions, and guiding developers in designing scalable solutions as the team expanded.
  • Designed and shipped a proprietary low-code products and pricing engine that enables advisors to assess mortgage eligibility, automatically underwrite clients, and generate commitment letters—with rates, product specs, and rules fully configurable by the product team, requiring zero code changes.

RBC

Toronto, Ontario

Engineering Manager

2021–2021
  • Led a team of engineers delivering Interac e-Transfer integration for RBC's next-generation business payments portal, enabling seamless digital payment capabilities for business clients at scale.
  • Shaped backend engineering direction for a chapter of 30 engineers as a Chapter Lead, driving department-wide initiatives by introducing new tooling, setting technical goals, and championing best practices—with a focus on improving developer experience and team productivity.

Software Developer (Various Levels)

2019–2021

Projects & open source

AlphaConsole

  • Built and grew AlphaConsole, a PC mod for Rocket League enabling cosmetic customizations not supported natively, scaling it to 1M+ downloads, 200K monthly active users, and a 300K-member Discord community while leading a team of 4 developers and 12 volunteer support staff.
  • Donated the project to the Rocket League modding community in 2021, where it was integrated as a plugin into BakkesMod, one of the most widely used tools in the community.
  • Contributed to prominent open-source projects including AssertJ, one of the largest assertion libraries for Java.
  • Published two open-source libraries for the Kotlin Ktor web framework, including KHealth, a Kubernetes-compatible health-check library with thousands of monthly downloads, and GracefulShutdown, enabling graceful shutdown support for Ktor applications.

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