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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Lead the design and implementation of a "Change Data Capture" pipeline to smoothly transfer customer data to our in-house data platform without any service interruptions. Processing thousands of events per second.
• Implemented data streaming services and dead letter queues using Apache Kafka and Golang to improve error handling and monitoring.
• Security Champion, leading department wide initiatives to improve our security posture to ensure a smooth GA launch.
• Mentored 2 junior developers into strong individual contributors.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Migrated AWS EMR infrastructure to AWS EKS, resulting in business cost savings of $5,000/month.
• Automated Jenkins deployments with Harness, resulting in over 20 jobs deploying simultaneously and reducing operational effort of deployments by 100%.
• Created a JSON schema and YAML validation program using custom Spectral rulesets and GitHub Actions as part of a project to reduce the time to develop and verify new data inference rules from ~3 weeks to a few days.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Assembled Azure infrastructure, developed “Extract, Transfer, and Load” pipelines, and created serverless functions which load and transform data from SQL databases to the cloud, slashing on-premises server costs by 50%.
• Built Terraform modules, enabling rapid provisioning of test environment resources and cutting the cost of creating new proofs of concepts by over 60%.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led the investigation and implementation of AODA compliant software. Introduced company-wide strategies to prevent privacy non-compliance fees, facilitating savings of up to $100,000 per month.
• Wrote scripts which automatically updated product details for over 10,000 items, improving inventory management efficiency by 99%
• Worked directly with clients to understand the product and their problems to improve the client-facing APIs for the Tulip Grocery platform using LAMP stack.
• Built and deployed a logging system to improve system-wide auditing and maintenance.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Implemented quality assurance technologies including unit testing software, increasing production code test coverage from 10% to 95%.
• Created an automated account modification system, allowing account owners to make desired personal account changes without contacting customer service.
• Received letter of recommendation from CTO for being highly adaptable and quickly grasping new technologies.