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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.