Senior backend developer for a meal kit e-commerce platform, working as part of a small, agile team.• Analyzed, designed & developed performant APIs to power mobile & web requests, ensuring full test coverage, in both Laravel and Node.js/Typescript.• Mentored other developers, providing guidance and acting as subject-matter expert.• Researched new technologies, quickly built PoCs and developed them into into fully documented, stable production solutions.• Converted site authentication to Google Firebase, seamlessly maintaining user login between legacy platform and new React frontend/Node.js microservices during transition, and migrated existing users from old user/pass scheme.• Designed Stripe Setup/Payment Intent-based architecture, implementing the backend in a Node.js microservice, and providing PoC as a model for implementation in the React frontend.• Designed and implemented Pub/Sub integration with Protobuf schema to efficiently communicate entity events to downstream consumers.• Refactored legacy code, taking a clean-code DDD approach which proved easier to maintain and eventually migrate to a microservice architecture.• Launched internal full-stack websites, complete with CI/CD flows, sometimes within days.• Received praise for debugging and problem-solving skills.• Created tooling used by development/QA teams.• Worked with existing CI/CD pipelines in both GitHub and Bitbucket.• Worked with multiple technologies on the Google Cloud Platform, including Firebase, Pub/Sub, CloudRun, Cloud Functions, logging & monitoring.• Actively participated in the product-development process within an Agile setting.• Wrote clear and concise documentation.

Managed a team of 3 to 4 developers in a fast-paced agency environment.• Continued Senior Developer responsibilities for approximately 80% of my time.• Worked with AWS technologies such as Route 53, Certificate Manager, Load Balancers & Security Groups to launch and monitor sites.• Managed and mentored the development team through code reviews, pair programming, and architecture planning sessions.• Oversaw the intake and assignment of jobs from multiple internal clients.• Collaborated with business and creative teams to gather and refine requirements.• Improved workflows, security and tools, maintaining team standards.• Led the productization of common projects, transforming the once complex into turn-key solutions.• Coordinated with multiple internal technical teams for integration and infrastructure support.

Senior developer on an agency web-development team working on small to medium microsites and landing pages which saw hundreds-of-thousands monthly visitors.• Collaborated with front-end developers to build dynamic heavily-segmented websites, with segmentation being fed by internal APIs and datasets.• Interfaced with internal, vendor and external (Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) APIs.• Efficiently managed tight deadlines and multiple concurrent projects.• Mentored other developers, providing guidance and acting as subject-matter expert.• Implemented significant workflow improvements, including multiple staging environments, code repositories, and automated code deployment.• Introduced a custom lightweight MVC PHP framework, which became the team standard.• Developed an offer-publishing tool used company-wide by internal users to publish to numerous sites.• Designed and built reusable CMS, social media sniffer, and moderator tools deployed across multiple properties.

Worked as part of a team supporting the two flagship company sites, as well as reporting and other tooling scripts.• Implemented features for regular maintenance releases on flagship company sites using J2EE/ATG/Oracle.• Maintained and enhanced a Perl-based automated affiliate reporting system, managing over 100 retailers.• Developed a fraud-alerting mechanism based on parsing site behaviour logs.• Designed and implemented an internal bonus card creation tool, communicating with the fulfillment vendor.• Developed and maintained numerous shell scripts for various tasks.• Provided support to publishers using the site CMS.

Created and maintained small websites for various clients.• Freelance developer working on a number of small to medium projects for clients.• Developed an inventory management tool for a hardware store using Visual Basic.

Java developer working as part of a 3-person team building a multi-protocol chat and file-sharing desktop application. Also maintained a custom Linux distro for in-house custom RAID hardware.• Developed a multi-protocol chat and file-sharing desktop application as part of a 3-person team.• Implemented a video and audio streaming chat feature with echo cancellation using Java, Java Native Interface (JNI) and C++.• Implemented multiple chat and file-sharing protocols in Java, including IRC, AIM, and SoulSeek, some requiring reverse engineering.• Designed and implemented a multi-user whiteboard with full network protocol design.• Built numerous features, including file encryption/compression, an MP3 player, various GUI components, chat archiving and forwarding, and multi-hop file transfers.• Maintained Java Web Install of the product and provided support on the product web forum.