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Maple Ridge, Bc, Ca

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Building brand kit and graphic design tools

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Co-founded and led the architecture and development of courtsidestats.com, a basketball statistics and predictions platform built on AWS and Vercel, minimizing cloud expenditure- Methodically developed an API scraping tool on AWS Lambda to validate and process sports data, enabling near real-time sports statistics with test-driven development (TDD) and secured using AWS API Gateway.- Implemented responsive user interfaces for NBA season data, allowing users to quickly check win percentages and determine betting preferences for teams, players, and upcoming games.- Developed scalable web infrastructure using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and ECS, ensuring rapid deployments and load balancing for a fast and stable user experience- Enhanced SEO and webpage load times by implementing frontend response and HTML caching strategies with Next.js SSR

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Skillfully led a critical data privacy project, migrating GCP Kubernetes environments to a new region and designing PostgreSQL data migration scripts, maintaining >99% platform uptime.- Implemented and optimized user ban management features, directly reducing promo code fraud by 70%, enhancing the integrity and security of promotional campaigns.- Performed devops tasks such as building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, configuring Kubernetes monitoring and alerting tools enhancing deployment efficiency and consistency across environments.- Meticulously implemented and maintained PostgreSQL data migration and deletion processes, ensuring efficient and accurate data handling for testing and production.- Proactively developed internal tooling to automatically find and patch JavaScript package security issues, reducing vulnerabilities by 95%.- Overhauled cloud secret management with Terraform, leading workshops to improve the security and reliability of infrastructure deployments.- Developed a marketplace app registration UI with OAuth compliance and secure webhook verification, enhancing user engagement and platform flexibility.- Triaged critical production outages with a sub-5 minute response time as an SRE, delegating tasks and communicating outage impacts as Incident Commander, improving customer trust

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Migrated applications to Docker containers and developed a Bitbucket continuous deployment pipeline, greatly improving new team member onboarding and code deployment speed.- Developed the web user interface and backend application logic in Django and React, synchronizing customer data between Salesforce CRM and PostgreSQL database.- Optimized frontend JavaScript bundle size using gzip compression, reducing page load times by 30%.- Led workshops and established Confluence documentation best practices, improving team velocity and code quality.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Passionately championed security projects within the product security group, performing security research, fixing memory leaks in mbedTLS, and implementing a secure embedded random number generator API.- Actively collaborated with upstream firmware vendors, deployment teams, and QA teams to ensure smooth integration of new releases.- Engineered and debugged a chip flash memory upgrade, incorporating secure boot, encryption, key storage, and FoTA updates, which facilitated smoother software development and deployment, unblocking several software teams and significantly enhancing productivity.- Created an attention command (AT) user interface for an IoT modem, enabling users to reduce device power consumption by 50% through intelligent sleep profiles.- Diligently led an internal Confluence documentation overhaul, reducing duplicated and outdated domain knowledge and improving team productivity.

Calgary, Ab, Canada

Industrial documentation analysis and test-bed design

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Distinction, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: UBC Orbit Satellite Design Team, UBC Unmanned Aircraft Systems, UBC Sailbots, Access and Diversity Peer Tutor

Web Development Bootcamp, Computer Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Led teams to build multiple full stack web applications, Led workshops to share my knowledge about Test Driven.