Leading engineering at a consumer tech-focused Venture Capital firm. Developing practices to increase engineering throughput within a constrained team size by improving developer tooling, and automation to reduce cognitive load on teams.Maintaining Cloud Task data pipelines for first-party metrics from portfolio companies, ensuring a high quality of data was delivered to BigQuery for the purposes of TensorFlow machine-learning ingestion on on GKE with Terraform.Leading the team in migrating customer facing front-end from legacy Wordpress to modern React stack leveraging Next.js and Apache eCharts. Coaching platform teams through agile best practices, leveraging principles from both XP and Domain Driven Design.

Director of Engineering at a virtual healthcare start-up growing into a scale-up, at 100% YoY engineering headcount growth for a distributed team spanning across Europe and North America.Levelled up engineers through Engineering Guilds using peer-to-peer mentorship. Focused on Accessibility Guild to improve AODA (WCAG 2.1 AA) compliance, and Front-end Guild to grow team competency through communities of practice.Developed the technical hiring program, using objective measurements and D&I best practices. Maintained departmental growth targets while building training programs to catch unconscious biases.Lead squads responsible for Engagement, Growth and Technical Architecture tracks. Hands-on mentorship with developers to deploy web, iOS and Android applications using Laravel, React Native, and OpenAPI on AWS for Health platforms.

Engineering Manager for two cross-functional teams of 15 developers across Shopify Marketplaces (Shopify App Store, Shopify Theme Store) and Developer Billing APIs. Scaled a platform that supports thousands of Shopify Partners market, sell, and manage their applications and themes. Coordinated with operations, governance and infosec teams to maintain quality and security of 3-sided marketplaces during a period of 4x growth. Constant collaboration with UX and Product Management counterparts to ensure teams are shipping the right thing, fast.Taught the teams the latest technologies and standards using peer mentorship and collaboration. Collaborated with other disciplines, from engineering to design, to help develop full-stack solutions using React, Ruby, ElasticSearch, Kafka and GraphQL on GCP platforms.Heavily involved with the Shopify Intern program. Developing the technical interview methods, and mentoring multiple cohorts of interns into successful hires.

Assess and optimize the tools, techniques, and practices used by production teams. Build relationships with sales partners through joint exploration of new technologies. Embed on teams to coach members through improving technical competencies and agile practices.

Technical design and decisions with heavy emphasis of e-commerce integration and utilization of third-party APIs within Drupal 6, 7 and 8 and supporting decoupled Node.js applications. Experience with multiple CDN solutions, DevOps and accessible development. Using agile methodology to coach development teams, and train developers for Acquia Certification.

Built decoupled systems utilizing Drupal, REST apis, and React, specializing in e-commerce and marketing properties. Collaborated with developers, designers and team members in creation and implementation of project work. Prioritized and estimate work to be done alongside designers and Product Owner to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget. Participated in User Research studies across a cross-functional team to validate client needs.

Built web portals for international non-profit and government organizations, using Drupal 6 and 7. Work was compliant with WCAG 2.0 (AA) as mandated by the AODA Integrated Accessibility Standards.

Developed Drupal and Wordpress websites and email campaigns for art festival clients. Optimized development processes for quick turn-around, and a high level of user engagement.

Design and develop websites for artists, filmmakers and entrepreneurs. Focusing on flexibility to change with the clients evolving needs, and highly usable to encourage engagement with visitors.

Created compliant websites for feature films made in Canada and India.

Assits with day-to-day operations of the Press Office for TIFF's year-round initiatives.

- organize local business sponsorship for a national film festival.- coordinate volunteers from different organizations.

Co-ordinated and designed advertising deals for a weekly student run humour Paper at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Managed a Business Team of three skilled individuals for the development of client relations. Balanced accounts receivable with QuickBooks.