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Berlin, Berlin, De

• Managed a team of 4 engineers that was responsible of 2 critical services• Helped build: Translations service - support the entire web-platform to serve all text displayed in different languages on locales. Written in NodeJS.• Helped maintain and improve: Tax Service - responsible for calculating taxes to be paid by customers in a few select countries, as well as make it possible for certain stakeholders to use that information to file for accurate taxes to stay compliant in respective countries. Written in Golang• Partnered with product owners to help build quarterly roadmaps to help align/hit companies quarterly/yearly OKRs.• Put together and helped follow an action plan that helped 2 team members to reach their next promotion level.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Helped build and ship first drama free project in company’s history• Worked with management group on continuous improvement of dev processes• Worked with product management to position competitive advantages and develop strategies to close any gaps• Worked with the product management team to design and develop new products / improve existing / retire old ones• Create work plans, estimates and reports to identify risks and opportunities to leadership to help with their quarterly planning efforts• Effectively staffed teams and coached members to be problem solvers rather than being single faceted contributors

Satellite Beach, Florida, Us

• Consulted companies on how to improve their engineering departments (from hiring personnel to establishing sound development disciplines and culture)• Trained developers both on backend and front-end technologies, train them on development methodologies• Built individual projects from ground up • Helped build/improve existing projects (eq: integrate with banks, etc.)

New York, New York, Us

• Helped build and maintain biggest social media platform for doctors in the world with over 300,000 members• Helped build and refactor existing legacy systems either by separating concerns into microservices or moving bits and pieces where they belong in the correct monolith service• Built an information gathering service from ground up with complete ownership including: DevOps, development, planning, testing. Used microservices and tools like Rails, AWS, ElasticSearch, VueJs, etc• Trained colleagues for best agile practices to improve a bad history of failing sprints and delivery• Mentored and coached developers to become problem solvers• Taken initiatives to improve culture by breaking existing habits, introducing guidelines (both agile and engineering)

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Built and delivered a core product to be used in long term care centres across north america from grounds up using React, Flux and Rails• Helped maintain all products in different Rails versions while coordinating with multiple teams to eliminate hiccups • Acted as the Deployment/Release master for all the products and automated the entire process by creating ruby scripts to allow any developer to be able to use and extend them easily when necessary• Held weekly developer improvement sessions to teach team about Clean Code, Architecture, SOLID principles and more• Interviewed and mentored all new developers• Started many initiatives such as automated user acceptance tests, code styles, better scrum practices

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Developed an online driver training software that saves lives all around the globe by reducing accident rates. • Worked with a JavaScript framework called Backbone JS to create fast and seamless online applications which supported multiple platforms and devices. • Helped maintain and build new features on backend using PHP with domain driven design pattern in mind to achieve flexible architecture.• Helped automate many time consuming tasks and built better developer environments that resulted in better dev flow and QA strategies.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Created a real-time note taking application to be used by Professors and Students • Built JavaScript functionality to draw SVG graphics while supporting multiple platforms and devices• Optimized data transfers to improve speed and data overheads• Implemented responsive design practices to achieve fluid web applications

Gatineau, Quebec, Ca

• Worked on the busiest governmental website, weather.ec.gc.ca• Worked on several projects such as publishing a Beta site and Accessibility/Usability upgrade of the current site• Worked with a big group of people from different cities across Canada.• Developed/Maintained/ for back-end process in Perl, Shell and Python and front-end using PHP, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript• Built a two tier search engine as part of the Accessibility/Usability project that was capable of achieving real time search results

• Worked on a web application called Markus, an open source project, used by multiple universities to grade their student’s assignments• Used Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.• Used various tools like IRC, github, ReviewBoard, Blog to communicate with the other members to effectively resolve any of the issues.

● Collaborated with three other team members to design and develop an online lab booking toolfor Bayview Secondary School● Constructed a secure website using PHP and CSS for users (Teachers) to book rooms onlineand stored all data in a MySQL database● Implemented Model-View-Controller pattern to make our project more modular and moreprogramming friendly