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New York, New York, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

- Designed and implemented a rollback plan to restore previous versions of AI packages in case of failure.- Reduced CPU load for an internal URL generation service by removing redundant ACL checks. Leveraged canary deployments and CPU profiling for performance testing.

San Francisco, CA, US

- Identified a company wide issue of Prometheus alert management, then proposed and created a React/Python service to visualize alert history and configuration.- Automated Prometheus alert creation for AWS SQS using Python to save 50+ hours of manual work per year.

Roseland, New Jersey, US

-Restructured the SRE deployment pipeline with Terraform to save 200+ hours of manual toil per year.-Created a 63% increase in ElasticSearch cost efficiency by introducing a hot/warm index architecture.- Configured an AWS Lambda pipeline to query RDS stats with Datadog visualization for capacity planning.

Toronto, ON, CA

- Created a.NET Core API microservice to handle user related requests and deployed it to an Azure hosted Kubernetes cluster with AKS.- Introduced a Redis caching layer over a SQL Server database to reduce authentication latency by 40%.- Configured the team’s microservices to run locally in Docker for testing consistency with production.

Ottawa, Ontario, CA

- Resolved multiple open source C library vulnerabilities on the QNX OS, and configured the secure libraries for cross-compilation with Autoconf and M4.- Restructured QNX's compiler by defining its file type interpretation and adding a positional dependent architecture.- Pioneered a suite of scripts with Python and the ReviewBoard API for automating the.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

- Introduced SSO authentication by designing a C# REST API web server to centralize identity with OAuth.- Developed a scalable object selection Angular component using Bootstrap that was applied on multiple user pages.- Reduced the test site deployment time by 50% with minimized MSSQL databases.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

-Researched and designed hardware implementations of neural networks.

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

-Constructed the full stack (C#,.NET, Angular) of data visualization features including a metric definition lookup and comprehensive datapoint ranking.-Refactored legacy ASP.NET pages to Angular, replaced the use of asynchronous promises with RxJS observables.-Achieved 100% unit test code coverage for several product components using Jasmine and NUnit.