Ethan Davies Smith Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

• Managed 2 teams (10 developers) of mobile and web developers; building and leading agile teams, balancing autonomy with guidance
• Worked with our talent organization to source and hire amazing engineers who will expand the D2L culture and product
• Plan, execute, and monitor the progress of multiple software development projects, ensuring that timelines and quality standards are met or exceeded. Efficiently allocating resources and prioritizing tasks, while.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product owners to define project scope and requirements, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Evaluate and improve team performance by analyzing successes and shortcomings, implementing best practices, and setting performance goals for team as a whole and individual members
• Ensure that the team is passionate about delivering sustainable customer value while constantly learning and improving

Waterloo, Ontario

• Ran weekly 1:1s (in-person & remote) with directs (4-9 developers); provided ongoing feedback and coaching, and conducted performance reviews
• Wore multiple hats to drive projects to completion; from code reviews, sprint scheduling, release planning, managing backlog, removing roadblocks, and facilitating post-mortems and retros
• Worked with Product Management to define, develop, and deliver features in a timely fashion for the release
• Developed new hiring practices once company moved to full remote. Collaborated with recruiting on execution, assessing and bringing on candidates

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Team Lead
• Point of contact for the team. Promoted collaboration, accountability, and healthy team dynamics within the team
• Built, fixed and maintained services in MEAN Stack, Go, Bash, and Java
• Worked closely with Operations; writing push plans to deploy microservices and distributed client/server systems using Docker, Gitlab CI/CD and Kubernetes
• Actively involved in the hiring process; interviewed co-op, intermediate, & senior engineers. Involved in discussions on how to improve our hiring process and find great people who fit and will shape our culture
• Scrum Master

Kitchener, Canada Area

• Worked closely with a Project Manager to create timelines, and prioritized tasks
• Led a small team through delegation and continual internal and external communication to keep work relevant and unblocked when completing month long projects
• Worked directly with clients to resolve complex technical issues through weekly calls, emails and remote debugging. Organizing asks and bringing feedback back to the team

Waterloo, Ontario

• Created an Android kiosk app for an autonomous cleaning robot that could communicate with (ROS) Robot Operating System
• Wrote a series of Python and environment Bash scripts for setup and controller tests

Burlington, Ontario

• Developed and publish a full featured messaging app (LockTalk) in a 2 month span by taking ownership of codebase and working the extra hours required to ensure meeting the project deadline.
• Created and maintained responsive interfaces for (myApollo and LockTalk) apps with an Android look and feel while mirroring the iOS apps and branding guidelines by implementing custom dialogs, a zoomable image gallery.
• Worked on and organized code being modified by a group of developers and managed updates, changes, and production snapshots using Git

• Worked on preparing an Android app (FishHunter Pro) to be production ready in 3 weeks by creating tablet layouts for any non scaling interfaces and improved the map loading and navigation by sending requests to show.

• Improved load time and server limit to handle over 2,000 clients by migrating a site written in PHP over to C# ASP.NET 4.0 MVC Razor which included creating a custom backend CMS, writing environment build scripts, a.
• Heavily involved in the development and maintenance for all the layers of the application, including the Data, Business, Service, and Presentation layer.
• Used Massive.ORM to access PostgreSQL database and OAuth Providers with NauckIT to allow for external logins (Google, Facebook, Yahoo)
• Used SqlInstaller to enforce database versioning, and TortoiseSVN for the code repository
• Created a new responsive layout using the Bootstrap 3.0 framework

Torstar Corporation

• InsuranceHotline.com & ComparaSave.com
• Work with a team of developers in a fast paced agile environment to maintain and create new WP features making an intuitive and easy to use web experience
• Working within a team to create production ready code for both C# web forms and MVC Razor using LINQ and Sql Server
• Improved user acquisition flow by creating optional forms to connect users directly to an insurance provider without the user having to complete the conversion funnel
• Created and maintained Wordpress plugins in PHP to allow marketing staff to edit certain page functionality without needing to commit code while keeping content integrity. Addressed IE7+ cross-browser compatibility.
• Built test suite using Selenium to help automate certain QA tasks