Liquify is a software solutions company providing applications for the BC liquor industry. Our goal is to make the work lives of agents and buyers easier and more productive.● responsible for the entire product life-cycle.● participate in planning and prioritization of product roadmap● design all aspects of the application, from data modelling to the application architecture● develop clean, performant code● ensure that automated testing is thorough and complete● run deployments to productionLiquify's software is written in Scala, built with the Play and Akka frameworks.

● Principal developer and architect of a distributed and scalable application for ad generation and publishing. This system generates tens of thousands of ad creatives every hour, along with managing the publishing and removal of ad campaigns● Key developer of extensive administrative web interface for managing campaigns, building ad creative, setting up automated jobs, and reporting. ● Designed and implemented a highly available, lightweight ad serving and user tracking system that services thousands of requests per second on each server node. This system is capable of complex decisioning to serve user appropriate ads in under 100ms ● Worked closely with Systems Operations to plan out and build infrastructure - able to achieve high performance in a tight budget by choosing the right open-source technologies and hardware setups.● Used technologies such as Java, Spring, Hibernate, JQuery, ImageMagick, ActiveMQ, ElasticSearch, Redis, MySQL, Tomcat, Nginx, and HAProxy.

Architect, developer, and administrator of a multi-server, multi-process Java application to reliably crawl nearly 100 merchant websites, normalize their product data, aggregate them, and persist to a database. Every run operated on over 500,000 products. This system used a custom crawler and a rules engine with a unique grammar created with JavaCC