Derek Mckinnon Email & Phone Number

Ottawa, On, Ca

Remote

Team lead and lead developer on several projects for higher-education and public safety institutions. Responsible for planning and architecture work as well as creating proof-of-concept demos for prospective clients that were later augmented into real production applications. Established DevOps practices within the company and provided guidance to other developers.- Created a survey participant tracking system for a higher-education institution- Designed and built a secure communications platform for a police agency- Architect and lead developer for a high-volume, automated background check system- Provided mentoring to junior developers via pair programming and code reviews

Ottawa, On, Canada

Created and maintained a variety of client projects spanning a wide range of industries. Oversaw projects from inception to delivery; designed and architected databases and continuous integration pipelines; wrote the majority of the code and deployed to several cloud providers.- Took over a legacy .NET platform, modernized the code, added new features, fixed bugs, and introduced a robust continuous integration and deployment pipeline- Built a consumer-facing web application integrated into an existing legacy platform- Performed as a team lead for several new projects in the shop and performed code reviews and mentoring for junior developers

Ottawa, Canada Area

Upgraded, migrated, and heavily refactored a series of legacy C#/VB6 web and desktop applications. Developed modern shared libraries and introduced newer technologies to move the platform to the cloud. Enhanced security, reliability, and portability of the platform.- Worked as the sole developer on the legacy platform (C#, VB6, AWS)- Worked together with a small team on the other SaaS products (PHP, AngularJS)- Developed an ETL solution for Canada Post to import location data (PHP)- Provided code mentorship to newer developers

Ottawa, Canada Area

Worked with a very small team to develop advanced search and product matching functions. Created a number of scripts and tools for scraping and importing product data from eBay, Amazon, and others.- Wrote a command-line tool for interacting with eBay APIs (Python)- Worked on solutions using the Azure stack (Storage, Search, Functions)- Fixed bugs and implemented new features on the Server Team (C#)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Designed and developed the backend of a carbon emissions tracking and accounting system for the aviation industry, and the backend of a billing system for airports. Introduced, set up, and trained coworkers in using Git, GitLab, Continuous Integration, and Docker.- Introduced modern programming techniques and technologies (Java 8, Spring Boot)- Modernized and improved the code quality of several projects (Backbone.js)

Ottawa, Canada Area

Upgraded, migrated, and heavily refactored a series of legacy C#/VB6 web and desktop applications. Developed modern shared libraries and introduced newer technologies to move the platform to the cloud. Enhanced security, reliability, and portability of the platform.- Worked as the sole developer on the legacy platform (C#, VB6, AWS)- Worked together with a small team on the other SaaS products (PHP, AngularJS)- Developed an ETL solution for Canada Post to import location data (PHP)- Provided code mentorship to newer developers

Gatineau, Qc

Systems integration, prototyping, design, interfacing

Ottawa, Canada Area

Organizing, sorting, and prioritizing various documents and solutions. Data entry.