Connor Smyth Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, ON, CA

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Lead scoping efforts, ensuring thorough evaluation, decomposition, sizing, and sequencing of tasks.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to maintain adherence to organizational best practices in application design.
• Assist Product and Design team in evaluating cost and risk associated with new user experiences.
• Consult with development leadership on project performance and resource allocation.
• Ensure bugs are triaged and recorded in Jira, and prioritize backlog grooming with product owners.
• Foster team member growth and learning by ensuring correct task assignment, providing coding assistance as needed, and tracking sprint commitments and deadlines.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Orchestrated a sizable 6-month project focusing on the migration of database queries in a legacy monolith system to standardized API calls interfacing with a central data store service in an effort to ease the.
• Collaborated effectively within a cross-functional team consisting of product managers, designers, quality assurance, and fellow developers
• Built and maintained a central data store service used by entire organization to perform CRUD operations. This service also manages newer event-driven architecture solutions that uses AWS SQS and EventBridge
• Implemented transition to GraphQL for many of the organization's services while ensuring to the adherence of GraphQL best practices
• Actively contributed to the spreading of knowledge and best practices across the organization
• Implemented security best practices within team code bases

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Mentored and trained junior team members for success
• Introduced a documented onboarding system
• Developed internal tools to ensure consistent work quality for all developers
• Modernized a 12,000-user legacy app into a microservices architecture
• Established thorough test suites with Test-Driven Development practices across organization
• Achieved DevOps principles with Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and containerization

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Co-conceived and initiated the development of a game project alongside a seasoned game designer, in late 2018
• Demonstrated a proactive approach to learning game development, acquiring skills in Unity and C# to transform our creative idea into a tangible project
• Committed to a totally free model to ensure the game could be shared with a wide audience. This decision was rooted in our shared passion for creating a game that represented a labour of love, free from commercial.
• Prioritized user experience by eliminating need for a tutorial, emphasizing importance of a game that players could intuitively pick up and enjoy
• Published game in both Apple App Store and Google Play Store

Toronto, Canada Area

294 College St

Yorkdale Shopping Centre

Information Technology, Cognitive Science

High School Diploma, Ontario Scholar

Activities and Societies: Chess Club, Ultimate Frisbee, Soccer, and Ice Hockey Graduated with Honours, Honour Role Grade 11, Honour Role.