Daniel Shakhmundes Email & Phone Number

Niagara-On-The-Lake, On, Ca

SWER: Shop With Experiential Retailhttps://SWER.store/

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• The corporation was acquired by Daniel Shakhmundes in July, 2011.• AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA is a registered trade name of GREGORY TSINKER & ASSOCIATES INC.• The AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA brand was added in 2013 and has a Master Business License in its name.• Current lines of business include:• • Resource management of Daniel Shakhmundes and other leading technologists.• • Internet infrastructure at http://go.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.com• • Consumer products, available on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/shops/A2YASTJALWUGKN

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

⦿ Report to CEO, COO, and thoroughly involved in Project Management (Jira, Asana).⦿ Built the company’s Tech Team up to six people; engaging internal HR (BambooHR), recruiters, shortlisting candidates, interviews, hiring, reviews, onboarding, and offboarding.⦿ For web2 & web3 web-based software products: Developed multiple Proof-of-Concepts, architected solutions, deployment automation; analysis of specifications & requirements, sequence diagrams, technical documentation and documentation for the clients.⦿ Transitioned the GDA (Global Digital Assets) Tech Team to Secure Digital Markets.⦿ Lead team to re-architect & rebuild a proprietary liquidity automation software product, as well as building & maintaining other in-house software products.⦿ Integrations with banks, exchanges, LPs (Liquidity Providers), Fireblocks, Talos, QuickNode, Alchemy, Sumsub (KYC & AML).⦿ Overseeing and contributing to Frontend & Backend development, API, and Smart Contract development for NFT related projects, primarily using Solidity & Ethereum, Metamask, WalletConnect, Javascript (Node.js with Express, TypeScript, Sequelize), SQL (Postgres), Linux (Ubuntu), GitHub, Jira, Figma.⦿ Pioneering use of AI for software development, programming, coding, and training the team to leverage it (OpenAI ChatGPT4, GitHub Copilot).⦿ Overseeing and contributing to DevOps and management of systems, infrastructure, vendors; AWS (EC2, S3, CloudWatch), GCP (Google Cloud), Terraform.⦿ Successful achievement of SR&ED claims in collaboration with a consultant.⦿ Engage Compliance team for product development, I.T. procedures, reporting.⦿ Engage Cyber Security team for audits/tests of our products & infrastructure.⦿ Engage Finance & Accounting teams (mid-office and back-office) on our in-house product development, process automation, report automation.

Toronto, Ca

⦿ Built GDA’s first in-house software development “Tech Team” with up to three full-time developers, one Project Manager, and one intern.⦿ Created the roles & responsibilities, interviewed, hired, on-boarded, and all Tech Team members.⦿ Established the department’s processes & policies.⦿ Backend, API, and Smart Contract development for NFT related projects, primarily using Solidity & Ethereum, Metamask, WalletConnect, Javascript (Node.js with Express, TypeScript, Sequelize), Postgres, Linux, GitHub, Jira, AWS, DigitalOcean Droplets & Spaces, Figma.⦿ Re-architected and lead the rebuild of a proprietary in-house liquidity automation product⦿ Built and put into operation multiple web2 & web3 projects⦿ Developed Proof-of-Concepts, architected solutions, deployment automation; analysis of specifications & requirements, sequence diagrams, implementations, technical documentation and documentation for the clients.GDA Capital is a global organization that provides vertically integrated financial technology services to institutional investors and disruptive technology companies. We are the trusted advisor that bridges the gap between institutional capital markets and disruptive technologies.GDA Capital provides institutions with exposure to its premier ecosystem of cutting-edge blockchain technology companies.GDA Capital also provides digital asset companies with access to growth capital, as well as providing access to advisory services on digital asset transactions.GDA Capital's broad network is composed of capital partners, industry experts, and entrepreneurs with an unparalleled level of experience with blockchain technology. GDA Capital has worked with some of the largest blockchain projects in the world and helped get them access to institutional capital.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Backend, API, and Smart Contract development for NFT related projects, primarily using Solidity & Ethereum, Javascript (Node.js with Express, TypeScript, Sequelize), Postgres, Linux, Bitbucket, Jira, DigitalOcean Droplets & Spaces, Figma. • Collaborated in a team of up to three developers, with peer code reviews, delivering on two NFT related projects. • Developed & deployed wholistically; analysis of specifications & requirements, sequence diagrams, implementations, technical documentation and documentation for the clients.

• The first CTO for a business that has operated for over one hundred years! • Put this 100+ year old company on Amazon for its first time, opening a new sales channel of additional revenue! • Halved I.T. security product/service costs by 47.5%, and increased network & endpoint oversight, by consolodating a multi-vendor multi-product situation into one wholistic centrally-managed solution from Trend Micro. • Managed technology & software vendor relationships across two physical locations; ERP, CMS, servers, desktop workstations, video surveillance, I.T., network & endpoint security. • Supported HR processes & systems; job postings, interviews, payroll. • Supported colleagues with hardware & software for marketing, advertising, graphic design, accounting, printing. • Audited existing operations & expenditures in order to maximize what was received from the contractual agreements, including the engagement of vendors’ executive and in-house legal counsel in exceptional cases. • Introduced Linux & open-source software where possible, resulting in both cost savings and operational improvements (reliability, security, performance).Examples: openSUSE, Ubuntu, Chromium, Oracle VirtualBox, KeePassXC

Toronto, Ca

Involved in the founding of Kwola, a start-up intended to revolutionize software development, in manifesting the power of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) for testing & QA (Quality Assurance).Kwola created the first commercial "artificial user", which allowed for fully-automated front-end testing, for the first time in history.At one point, Kwola open-sourced some of their technology, which was available on GitHub.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Lead in-house teams of frontend & backend developers, UI/UX/Designers, and coordinated with the client’s team of designers & developers, on a rapidly growing scheduling & resource management application for the healthcare industry in the USA & Canada. • AWS, Javascript (Node.js, React), Jira, FigmaTorinit is a Technology partner that was created on the concept of being integrity-driven and leading with clarity given the noise that typically comes when working with an outsourced technology partner. We've since built 50+ digital products and have equity in 11 portfolio companies, having added a Ventures arm to support the companies that we believe in most. Our goal is to enable founders, and teams of start-ups and SMBs in North America to do the most, with the least amount of code. Through a unique product-first approach and model to develop digital legacies. We mitigate risk, catalyze growth and bridge inefficiencies.Relationships are always prioritized over revenue.We believe technology should do one of two things (OR BOTH) - Drive TANGIBLE top and bottom-line revenue.

• Contributed in a team of up to five developers, with peer code reviews, on an innovative payment gateway & routing system for the financial services space, which handled multiple fiat and cryptocurrencies. • Developed both internal & external facing APIs wholistically; specifications, implementations, and documentation. • Full-stack development front-end and back-end coding; Bootstrap, PHP, Javascript (jQuery with numerous plugins), MySQL/MariaDB, Linux, FreeBSD, Bitbucket, Jira.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• An enlightening & enriching plunge into the cryptocurrency & blockchain space with Decentral's visionary leadership of Anthony Di Iorio, an Ethereum co-founder. • Contributed to architecture of infrastructure & code, beginning with the configuration of cryptocurrency nodes on AWS EC2 instances, to the development of RESTful API layers servicing the mobile & desktop apps, and the database & indexation systems in-between. • Proudly contributed to Decentral’s flagship product, Jaxx Liberty, which is a multi-cryptocurrency wallet supporting numerous digital assets, including the ability to exchange many of them. At the time, Jaxx Liberty had more than one million downloads world-wide, and availability across every major desktop & mobile platform: Microsoft Windows, Apple MacOS & iOS, Google Android & Chrome, and Linux. • Researched and built proof-of-concept systems & software for the integration of multiple new cryptocurrencies into Jaxx Liberty. • Developed new features that went live to production, along with improvements & maintenance to legacy systems. • Technologies employed: Javascript (Node.js), Python, PHP, Bitbucket, MongoDB, MySQL/MariaDB, Jenkins, Terraform, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu), Slack, Wrike, Zoom, Double Robotics telepresence robots. • Made contributions to several open source software projects on GitHub, which were accepted, and can be found under Contribution activity on my GitHub profile: https://GitHub.com/DaShak

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Helped to grow this company from three to twenty people, in completing numerous projects for multiple clients, and further developed my technical, managerial, and leadership skills. • Reported directly to the CEO/Founder for technology leadership & vision, and business strategy. • Defined roles & job descriptions, interviewed, and recruited candidates [sometimes with ZipRecruiter] to assemble & lead three teams: ◦ Two DevOps & Development teams, with a total of seven people (six full-time), covering software & infrastructure architecture, DevOps, programming, development process, quality assurance (QA), for all major & ongoing projects; ◦ One eight-person team capable of end-to-end VR, ML, AR, and 3D game development.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Catalysed the entire team & processes for software development, from developing proofs-of-concepts to building the teams creating of Kearns Technology’s software products; examples: ◦ A 3D VR-capable gamified training system developed from the ground up in Unity3D, and built to government & industry-specific safety standards. Using the Elevator Simulator, students can construct an elevator using modern safety techniques and accurately modeled industry tools. All tools and parts are modeled by in-house artists using tools such as Blender and MODO. ◦ A Learning Management System, used in production by CEIEP (Canadian Elevator Industry Education Program) for hundreds of teachers and thousands of students across Canada. ◦ An Inventory Management System, used in production by CEIEP, streamlining the production & delivery of educational materials to thousands of teachers & students across Canada. ◦ A Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool, which generates an MVC application from a json schema file. It expedites creation of an application’s front & back end, along with a REST API and a basic CRUD administration view, consisting of leading open source frameworks (Laravel, React), and provides a modular framework to extend, customize and fine tune your applications. This product is the result of packaging the many continuous improvements that were applied to the development of LearnMan & InvMan. • Some of the technologies used: PHP/Laravel, Ruby, Javascript/React, apache, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud (GCE), Linux (openSUSE, Fedora, CentOS), Vagrant, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, ConnectWise, JIRA, Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory (AD), Sharepoint.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Via AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA for multiple clients & projects of Kearns Technology Inc.:• Reporting to the company President & Founder, leading software & infrastructure architecture, DevOps, programming, development process, quality assurance, for three major projects and ongoing.• Managed project resourcing in having brought on software developers from own network and performed interviewing & selection of other referred candidates.• Responsible for architecture & development of software applications, and actively engaging clients.• Supporting up to 10 stakeholders simultaneously per client – internal teams up to 7 people, in addition to 3 from a client – up to 3 clients concurrently.• Delivered web-based applications supporting thousands of concurrent users.• Technologies used: Javascript & PHP (Laravel framework), apache, MySQL, Linux (openSUSE, Fedora), Vagrant, GitHub, Microsoft Windows Server, Sharepoint.

Toronto, On, Ca

• Reported to the Director, Global Development and Operations, in managing teams of 5 to 15 individuals, responsible for product development and infrastructure operations; DevOps, Developers, Project Managers, Designers, and QAs.• Self-assembled a new software development team with more current skills;sourcing, recruiting, and hiring five members entirely through my own network.• Seamlessly transitioned between old & new development teams, increasing velocity in product development to monthly feature releases up from quarterly.• Helped increase reliability of operations to 99.9%.• Integral to bringing cost-reductions well over 50% by leading transitions such as• • hosting migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS) from company-managed data-centres running VMWare virtualization;• • server migration to Linux from Microsoft Windows.• Expedited the time to release software fixes & patches up to same-day, up from the once-a-month if-not-worse schedule that I inherited, in having• • revised development process (to Agile/Scrum from something Waterfall-like);• • created automated project management workflows in JIRA;• • improved software configuration management (SCM migrated to GitHub from SVN);• • introduced QA automation using Jenkins.• Helped my Director gain consent, approval, and buy-in of Directors & Executives for the above wins in having created proof of concept AWS cloud infrastructure with automatic scaling and disaster recovery.• Accelerated R&D in having deployed a proof of concept web crawler system, which was built entirely on open-source technologies.• Other skills and infrastructure used, but not limited to: Cloud infrastructure, programming (PHP, Javascript, shell scripts), BSD operating systems, open-source anything, networking (TCP, UDP, IPv4), Big Data technologies (ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Lucene, Storm, Flume), Configuration management (Jenkins, New Relic), Databases (MySQL, Amazon RDS, Postgres, MSSQL).

• Vendor assessment & recommendation for Event Management Systems, Content Management Systems (CMS), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Email Marketing Systems, and systems for online video encoding/transcoding, storage, and streaming. Benefits to the business included support improving some negotiations and services that ensured the best possible web presence & performance for multiple events that all exceeded their prior year's iteration;• Reported to the Director of Operations, lead one developer;• Worked with the Director of Operations on Development project/task/issue tracking using Google Docs;• Website development of multiple sites built on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and perl, Javascript, HTML/XHTML;• Quickly learned all front-end & back-end code written in proprietary frameworks to carry out maintenance, improvements/fixes, new deployments, and documentation;• Javascript programming included dynamic front-end AJAX using JSON and 3rd party code libraries such as jQuery;• Performed all administration and user management for Linux servers, Domain Name System (DNS, using bind), Apache (apache2), MySQL, File Transfer Protocol (FTP, using ProFTPD), and proprietary applications.

New York, Ny, Us

• Contracted for software development programming between a proprietary 3rd party front-end and a proprietary 3rd party back-end, for a web-based application (SaaS);• Built using standards-based and open-source technologies: LAMP stack (Linux, apache, PHP, MySQL), symfony2 framework, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, jQuery, REST API.

I lead the architecture & deployment of company infrastructure; from the developer's desktop environment all the way to the client-side technologies that interact with our visitors. I also collaborated on the company vision, ideas, and legal complexities of doing business internationally, with a man who co-inventored spreadsheets for AT&T in 1969.This business collapsed, and is a learning experience as to the importance of performing due-diligence and holding partners responsible for their agreements & conduct.

Toronto, On, Ca

Build Master:Responsible for+ code branching & version management (SVN, CVS);+ creation & maintenance of release notes, instructions, deployment tools/scripts;+ initial development of an automation tool.Team Lead:Delivered all projects on schedule, whether the projects were existing or new, using Agile methodology and JIRA as a management tool.Developer:Web/application software development (PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL)

This self-employment and sole-proprietorship is superseded by Daniel Shakhmundes'​ corporation and corporate brand AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.Shak is a proven technology professional with core competencies in design, planning, development, and management, enabling him to advance business goals on numerous fronts. Trilingual to humans, but polylingual with machines; he can work with virtually any programming language or script. An expert not only with Microsoft operating systems, but equally adept with Linux, and Apple/Mac. Daniel delivers on core Internet and web technologies such as web-sites, databases, and video. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Brock University, and is an Alumni of Niagara College too. Daniel's services are valued by his clients, which span many industries. • Over fifty clients served; • Performed all key roles in entrepreneurial / small business / start-up arena: • • Sales / Quotations / Proposals / Budgeting / Forecasting; • • Project Management / Planning; • • Relationship Management (contractors, vendors, other 3rd parties); • • Book-keeping / interfacing with accounting professionals. • Rendered services and sold products in the technology & media space: • • Web development, analytics, Search Engine Optimization/Marketing; • • Programming in a wide array of languages & environments; • • Internet-Hosting & Networking (web, email, databases, security, etc.); • • Email Marketing & Analytics; • • Disaster Recovery (data recovery, automated backup systems); • • Database administration, development, optimization; • • Graphic Arts/Design; • • User Interface design & implementation.

Professor for three courses:Flash Gaming• advanced programming with ActionScriptIntermediate Flash• creation of drawings (sprites) and animationsWeb Authoring Fundamentals• HTML, XHTML, and CSS

Management, development, databases, graphics, logos, the web, planning, projects, designing, networking, programming, encryption, implementation, authentication, optimization, applications, justifications, installations, digital audio and video production and editing, visionary.

• Develop play-lists suiting the patrons [aged mid-20s and older]• Play and mix music to provide continuous and seamless listeningpleasure

• Design & programming of web-applications (Perl, HTML, CSS)• Support and upgrades to previously developed websites• Build tools for expediting development

St. Catharines, Ontario, Ca

• Digital video and web development• Assist faculty, staff, and students in multimedia development• Conduct colloquiums on multimedia technologies for faculty and staff from various disciplines

St. Catharines, Ontario, Ca

• Assist faculty, staff, and students with lab computers and software• Handle printing services transactions• Troubleshoot hardware, software, and networking problems

• Graphics editing and optimization for on-screen presentations (Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop);• HTML and graphics editing and optimization for CD-ROM multimedia (Macromedia Dreamweaver);• Digital video production for lecture presentation (Final Cut Pro).

Chatham, Ontario, Ca

• Frontend & backend SQL database maintenance & development using Microsoft Access.• Created a new relational table structure to make data storage & acquisition more efficient.• Built a new front-end user-interface, increasing the reliability & speed of users' data-entry.• Employed full-time for two consecutive Summers.

Chatham, Ontario, Ca

• Frontend & backend SQL database maintenance & development using Microsoft Access.• Created a new relational table structure to make data storage & acquisition more efficient.• Built a new front-end user-interface, increasing the reliability & speed of users' data-entry.• Employed full-time for two consecutive Summers.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Diploma, Business Basics

Yeshiva Bucher, Essentials