Gavin Servai Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

https://sparrowshare.com

Miami, Florida , Us

Miami, Florida , Us

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Responsible for the Orello mobile platform, duties pertain to the requirements elicitation and development of Orello's Android app.

• https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/squadapp-app-for-your-squad/id1109086418• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=socialinsight.com.squadapp• Developed a re-usable, OAuth2 compliant REST API for cross-platform consumption of the Squadapp back-end• Converted customer discovery efforts into a concrete development strategy and timelines • Led Dev Ops. Configured, interfaced with, monitored, and managed services such as AWS ELB, EC2, RDS, SNS, S3, SES, and ElastiCache• Configured local development environment via Vagrant and Homestead. Configured staging, beta, and production environments with cross-uniformity• Used ELB to create deployment scripts that leveraged supervisor to ensure and monitor the health of queue workers. Created a deployment flow to ensure reliable deployment, and easy rollbacks. This flexible environment allowed for rapid, reliable development• Prepared pitch decks, met with potential investors, and developed the business strategy alongside the CEO• Developed a scalable, real-time push notification system that leverages queuing and AWS SNS to notify recipients of Android and iOS with variable granularity• Developed a user invitation and confirmation system that leverages Branch IO deferred deeplinking and Twilio SMS, allowing for a seamless user onboarding experience• Developed a queued Facebook-style notification system, which tracks the activity of users, and groups notifications depending on multiple users conducting the same action and the timeframe of those actions• Developed re-usable modules for tasks such as error handling, response generation, request data validation, permissions validation, proxying, image uploading, location management, onboarding, etc• Designed, implemented, and iterated on entire back-end database of the product• Implemented Agile processes and tools for incorporating flexible feedback into sprints, as well as for task management and prioritization across the team

Toronto, On, Ca

Participated in the 2016 cohort of the Next 36.

Use my knowledge of web programming, design, application programming, and project management to provide professional and affordable technology solutions for many businesses.Communicate with clients of diverse backgrounds in order to: interpret client's needs, present design proposals, and convey technical information.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

- Responsible for planning, implementing, and coordinating the release of the integration of the Hootsuite Campaigns login system with the rest of the company- Re-architected and guided the development of a crucial back-end service used for social media contests, achieving horizontal scalability while increasing system reliability and reducing operational costs- Spearheaded an overhaul of development processes, adapting agile processes to the team, and creating guides for multiple aspects of the development process- Conducted training for the team, including security exploit testing, code structuring, and unit testing- Introduced a reusable code structure, and methodology for developing back-end services and features. The structure ties in documentation, requirements elicitation, unit testing, and implementation naturally. It is being successfully used to develop rapidly, while promoting consistency and proper paradigm throughout the engineering team- Spearheaded the integration of unit testing into the development flow- Implemented reusable integration testing base classes, from which all integration tests are based- Took ownership of security on the product. Implemented back-end services for validation, race condition protection, and various other potential vulnerabilities- Created a spam prevention service, which has successfully protected the product from hundreds of thousands of spam votes- Re-architected all voting functionality, implementing it as a service for reusability across the product- Created a reusable and extendable invitation service, used to register new users to Hootsuite via the Campaigns product, as well as handle movements between Organizations- Implemented the ability for the product to support unlimited tiers of Organizations and Sub Organizations, while consolidating unnecessary tables in the database to improve efficiency and maintainability- Implemented various other features and processes into the product

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

- Implemented new client-facing, as well as back-end, functionality to social media contests- Sought out and implemented database efficiencies- Created Python library to handle event/subscriber with wildcards, and leveraged this to track desired metrics to our Grafana server

Vancouver, B.C., Ca

- Tasked with the development of various python-based and php-based systems- Headed the development of the API/Back-end of Planat, an important commercial project. Was involved in all aspects, from the initial product backlog refinement, to the technical design and full implementation.- Liaised with client business to develop custom solutions to their business needs

Managed a team of 4 Computer Engineering interns, assuming a role of high responsibility and using time management and project management skills to ensure that concurrent projects were completed effectively.

Vancouver, B.C., Ca

Taught, with a co-instructor, an after-school computer class.Created lesson plans and presentations. Supervised students from grades 4-5.Experience working with students of diverse backgrounds.