* Mobile and API development on an end-to-end Typescript stack using technologies such as Expo, React native, GraphQL, Prisma, Postgres, Pulumi and Google Cloud;* Coordinating product, design and technology to build Canada's first debit card for kids to help teach them financial literacy skills

* Investing in developer experience: - Introduced collaborative best practices such as healthy code review process, continuous integration, release tagging, and progressive adoption of linting; - Accelerated test coverage by measuring and re-enforcing habits, from zero to 80%+;* Improving infrastructure: - Led drama-free database migration from Heroku to AWS RDS; improved email deliverability and reliability by implementing an email load balancer; - Helped migrate from Rails 3.2 -> 5.1 and Ruby 2.3 -> 2.6* Feature delivery: - Built self-serve trial onboarding flow; - Added import and feature enhancements for enterprise customers; - Led squad responsible for multiple critical billing and invoicing projects;* Helping build team: - Collaborated with a senior engineer and CTO to develop an engineering levels guide to help situate and disambiguate growth within the engineering discipline; - Coordinated across functional groups to accelerate and improve reliability of software development process; - Directly managed 5 engineers while maintaining individual project delivery commitments; - Helped hire engineers and engineering management, doubling size of the team, while working alongside a senior engineer to normalize the hiring process to reduce bias and engage under-represented communities; - Worked with CTO to build OKRs for the engineering team, and strategize product road map to continuously pay down technical debt while meeting feature delivery goals;

As the leader of the technology team at CareGuide, my role is to ensure we have the best people, process, product and code to help our users find the care services they need or a job in the care industry. * Provided technological stewardship to help grow user base 10x from 250k to over 3M and revenue by 10x;* Built technology team from 1 co-op growth hacker to a robust, multi-dimensional team of 16, composed of a mix of product, design, and engineering disciplines;* Ensured efficient development practices;* Enabled effective collaboration across all teams in the organization;* Aligned the engineering efforts to accomplish strategic business priorities;* Launched 3 new products, including an iOS application, in addition to re-branding and re-launching Canada’s most popular nanny site;

* Led development of API and web front-end for a children’s e-book reader with over 700 titles;* Architected API used by both mobile and web platforms, with 1M+ active users with mixed storage backends including MongoDB, Postgres, and Redis;* Built shopping cart, book club with recommendation engine, back office administration portal, and subscription renewal service;

* Team leader and senior developer for a high-traffic flash-sale e-commerce platform, at peak receiving 1000 requests per second;* Worked with product managers, designers, and other developers to constructpixel-perfect UI components, prioritizing scalability and performance;* Managing small teams of 6 developers, coordinating QA and releases;

* Developed web-based work-flow application for photo-editing using Java, JSP, and AJAX;* Lead architect of internal network and storage servers, amounting to a small server farm running Linux;* Administration and development of a heterogeneous network: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X;* Created Apache module for image thumbnail generation and processing in C/C++;

* Researched and recommended capital purchases, reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer;* Helped build a fast PHP / MySQL search engine for finding photographs by keyword, indexing millions of records, while returning results quickly;* Provided customer support for end-users on download, browser, and user-interface issues;* Administered several fully redundant and replicated MySQL databases;* Managed DNS settings for multiple websites across several webservers; * Planned, Assembled, and Deployed multiple web servers, using load-balancing, redundant backups, and virtual hosting;* Facilitated cooperation between the technical and marketing department to develop material and processes for the website;* Lead development on several software development projects both for internal use and for direct sales;

* Developed and maintained website for an embedded Linux company;* Designed graphics and product packaging using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop;* Maintained in-house Linux server and backup procedure for uClinux, a branch of the main Linux kernel;* Moderated email list service for uClinux users and developers;* Customer service to end-users of the embedded Linux products;