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 considering team members' strengths and individual project requirements.• 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 • •• Facilitated dailies, planning, backlog grooming and other agile ceremonies. Removed blockers and assisted the team in improving our agile practices• Promoted continuous improvement in the office by organizing a technical book club allowing developers to take time and reflect on the work they're doing and having an open forum to discuss best practices in the industry• Led a technical book club initiative covering Test-Driven Development, Design Patterns, and Clean Code (as well as various tech articles and blog posts)• Met on a consistent basis with other teams and worked with Managers and Product Owners to help communicate and plan delivering month long products to production.

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 and an iOS compatible emoticon keyboard• 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 fishing markers based on zoom and location

• 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 jQuery based driving quiz populated using PostgreSQL, and OAuth authentication to improve user engagement• 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 issues• Built test suite using Selenium to help automate certain QA tasks