My mission at Zenhub is to grow & lead our engineering team and create a scalable & performant architecture for our cloud and on-premise customers. I work closely with business stakeholders to build our infrastructure and define our development process.Since I joined I've:- Led the hiring and onboarding efforts for the engineering team. Scaled the team from 15 to 30.- Established a culture of ownership, individual responsibility, and personal growth.- Setup engineering KPIs, monitored the overall engineering department's performance, throughput, and velocity, and then optimized development workflows for those metrics.- Shipped many new core product features and technologies (eg. Roadmaps, Automation Workflows, Zenhub Enterprise 3).- Assisted in the migration of legacy systems (frontend, backend and infrastructure/ops) to modern technologies with minimal downtime for customers (we landed with React, Apollo, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, and Kubernetes).- Continued to be hands up, shipping production code. Mostly focused on optimizing our internal systems, developer experience, and customer retention.- Worked with the marketing team to raise brand awareness by crafting several technical articles, blog posts, and being the external face of the engineering team.- Contributed to a variety of open source projects to drive internal business requirements forward.Interviews & Podcast Appearances:- https://devjourney.info/Guests/126-EvHaus.html- https://www.heroku.com/podcasts/codeish/102-whether-to-repeat-yourself-dry-damp-or-wet- https://maintainable.fm/episodes/ev-haus-good-code-can-be-easily-deleted

As a board member for Wizard, I help provide strategic guidance, oversee critical business operations, review financial and corporate obligations, approve and evaluate senior staff compensation, provide legal consultation and help establish corporate relationships.

Globex Designs Inc. is a consulting and development firm that I've been running in my spare time.I handled project development, web & media design, 3D animation, music composition and business operations. Designed and developed a variety of media projects for over 100 international clients. Development of custom in-house bug tracking, project management, scheduling, billing and invoice system for managing clients and distributed development with other artists and developers from around the world.Created and developed the Google Redesigned Firefox extension which has been installed on millions of computers and was actively used by over 250,000 users worldwide. Together with Lexan Software Inc, I was the art director and project manager responsible for designing and shipping the iOS/Android game – Tesseric.NOTABLE CLIENTS:- Association for Financial Professionals of Canada- Laurel Foundation- Coco Rocha- Dark Realm Studios- Great Northern Engineering Consultants Inc. (GNEC)TECHNOLOGIES USED:- HTML5, Javascript, CSS3,- PHP, Python, Flash, ActionScript, Node.js, Express.js, Koa- WordPress, Drupal, Cake PHP- Amazon Cloudfront/S3/EC2, cPanel, Github, SVNMUSIC COMPOSITION:- EDM composition, production and distribution of various artists and releases as part of my own record label: GXD Records (https://www.gxdrecords.com/).- Composition, sound design and music production of game soundtracks such as Pandemic, Kingdom Keeper, Scapefall, and Tesseric.- Soundtrack scoring for various advertisement campaigns, trailer videos and other music material.

Leading and managing a software team of 15 engineers. Building the Cumul8 platform -- a Big Data, Visual Analytics and Machine Learning platform. My daily drivers are to ensure our technology stays modern, efficient, scalable, highly performant and something our engineers enjoy building. Some of my daily responsibilities:- Define and influence product strategy & roadmaps- Provide technical guidance and audits for the CEO and other key stakeholders & clients.- Evaluate potential technologies and provide recommendations on technology evaluations and solution implementations.- Review support tickets on a daily basis, identify common areas of concern, regularly conduct security audits and put together long-term technology upgrade plans.- Troubleshoot issues and oversee our QA & DevOps teams to ensure stability and quality of deployments.- Coordinate with overseas QA outsourcing companies to ensure every release meets strict quality standards and QA can be automated by a vendor.- Run daily stand ups, plan sprint plans, hold 1-on-1s with senior team members, conduct interviews, define hiring strategies, and conduct employee performance evaluations.- Help automate development workflows, tests, deployment and CI/CD tools, and look for other ways to measure and improve overall team efficiency and performance.- Conduct code reviews, mentor, teach and guide other developers. Hold seminars/talks describing new product features and technologies. Record video tutorials for remote developers.- Identify and file software patent applications with the help of patent lawyers.- Write instructional and technical support documents for internal staff as well as end-users/customers. - Provide guidance on cloud infrastructure and scalability, and look for ways to reduce operational costs.- Provide high-quality customer support and understand incident management plans.- Continue to be a hands-on front-end engineer building and shipping many client-facing product features.

Technical lead role in a team of designers and developers. I help build custom web and mobile applications for large Enterprise clients, as well as assist our in-house team in the development of a SaaS application. Specifically, I am in charge of the core platform architecture that powers all of our products. I work closely with our clients and help our product managers improve internal workflows. Our software allows our clients visualise big data, tell data-driven stories and track their digital tasks and assets. For more information visit www.cumul8.comTECHNOLOGIES USED:- React, React Native, Redux, Immer, Immutable, ES6/ES7 (via Babel), Backbone, LESS, REST, JSON-RPC- MongoDB, Postgres- Golang, node.js, Python- And many othersMORE INFO:- Watch my 1-hour talk at React JS Vancouver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv18_gdAhGg

Lead development of a custom web application and asset management system using HTML5 / Node.js / Python for distribution to large-scale media production companies. In short, I build software that helps movie studios and video game publishers get their projects done on time and on budget, while offering real-time analytics along the way.TECHNOLOGIES USED- HTML5, Javascript, CSS3- Backbone, jQuery, d3, LESS, Require, Node.js, Express.js, Grunt, Jasmine- Python, mod_wsgi, Apache, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB- Perforce, Git, Github, GitlabMOVIE CREDITS- (2014) Godzilla- (2014) 300: Rise of an Empire- (2013) Thor: The Dark World- (2013) Iron Man 3- (2012) The Amazing Spider-man- (2012) Prometheus

Automation of proprietary 2D-to-3D stereo conversion pipeline tools using Python. Technical support for artists, managers and executives. Web design and development for company website.TECHNOLOGIES USED:- Python, PostgreSQL- PerforceMOVIE CREDITS- (2012) Wrath of the Titans- (2012) Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Modeling and animation for true 3D stereo conversion of major motion pictures. Creation of models and animation in Maya for use with proprietary software to match film and render in Stereoscopic 3D.CREDITS:- (2011) Conan the Barbarian- (2011) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2- (2011) Priest- (2010) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Web design & development, SEO, graphic design, development of themes for custom applications, identity & print design, animation production and marketing research.Lead designer for the Tuxedo Webmail product.

Graphic design, SEO, web optimization, and administration of Canada’s largest broadcast network’s website.