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Michael Lean
Engineering Lead · Product & AI
Leads product engineering: TypeScript, React, Node and Python, with a focus on AI features, automation and third-party integrations. Turns research output into shipped product.
About
A studio built to remove delivery risk.
Epcotec is a remote-first engineering company registered in Australia and Canada, in continuous operation since 2011, with roots in Canada. We keep teams senior-led on purpose: fewer handovers, faster decisions, better software.
Our operating principle
Senior-led teams. Real accountability.
We do not scale by adding junior bodies. We scale with a tight process and modern tooling, so the people who agreed to the scope are the people who deliver it. That is why our estimates hold and our handovers are clean.
- ✓Registered in Australia and Canada: local entities to contract, invoice and comply.
- ✓Remote-first, with working overlap for AU and CA business hours.
- ✓Fixed-scope delivery: you approve before we build.
- ✓Full IP transfer: code, infrastructure and documentation are yours.
4Engineering & R&D leads, senior-led
AU + CARegistered entities
2011Operating since: Canadian roots
30 daysPost-launch support included
The team
One team. Every practice area.
Epcotec is led by hands-on leads across engineering and applied R&D, founded by the engineer who started it in 2011. The R&D co-leads work as one complementary team with the engineering leads, and every engagement is delivered by the people you see below. The full record, 2011 to today, lives on the delivery history page.
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Glen Pryce
Engineering Lead · Platform, Data & Security
Leads platform, data and security: Go, Python, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, MLOps and security engineering. Owns the foundation every product sits on.
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Gene Pratt
Applied R&D Co-lead
Co-leads applied R&D. Optics and discharge physics: beam shaping, optical trapping, breakdown and plasma diagnostics, turning the published principle into reproducible experiments and measurable envelopes.
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Ottie Pratt
Applied R&D Co-lead
Co-leads applied R&D. Industrialisation and experiment engineering: parameter sweeps, environmental validation, safety interlocks and the handoff of research into implementable systems.
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Eugene Pivnev
Founder
Started Epcotec in Edmonton, Alberta in 2011 and has helped build it ever since, as one of the team. His expertise spans the full statement of capacity, from LiDAR and linear optics to cloud platforms and data systems, keeping every engagement anchored to engineering substance.
Work with the people who build it.
No account managers, no telephone game. You talk to the engineers.
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