Greg Sparrow Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Leading the development of Canada's newest all-in-one HR and benefits platform, Collage.My awesome team (5 devs) and I have built a product that successfully competes with solutions offered by companies who employ hundreds of developers. We started in 2016 and were acquired in 2019.Our tech stack: Ruby on Rails & React. We use PostreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Github, Sentry, Amplitude, Segment, MobX, ES6/ES7, Webpack, JsonAPI.

Toronto, Canada Area

I am a full-stack web developer at Shiny Barnacle. I have built a multi-lingual, multi-site platform running two on-demand marketplace websites in Toronto, Canada, and Tokyo, Japan. I have been responsible for the front end and back end, as well as automatic deploy, continuous integration, automatic testing (functional and unit tests), configuring and maintaining AWS instances and Nginx servers.We're building a modern, sophisticated web application using the following technologies:… Show more I am a full-stack web developer at Shiny Barnacle. I have built a multi-lingual, multi-site platform running two on-demand marketplace websites in Toronto, Canada, and Tokyo, Japan. I have been responsible for the front end and back end, as well as automatic deploy, continuous integration, automatic testing (functional and unit tests), configuring and maintaining AWS instances and Nginx servers.We're building a modern, sophisticated web application using the following technologies: Stack: Javascript/jQuery/React/Bootstrap, Python/Django/TornadoTools: AWS, SES, Nginx, Git, Gulp, Babel, Less, npm, Webpack, vim, PyCharm, Google Analytics, FabricThird-party integrations: Various Google APIs, Stripe, Twillio, GeoIP2, Facebook Show less

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Reported directly to the Director of Software DevelopmentProvided estimations, established best practices, helped with technical challenges, ensured consistency of the codebase across the team of 25+ developersLead the efforts to unify various products offered by Gryphtech under a single SOA-driven platform Designed, implemented, and integrated several components and frameworks used across different products for data audit, synchronization and exchange

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsibilites:Developed new modules for public facing Remax website accessed in 60+ countries.Maintained, refactored, and improved old codebase.Mentored junior developers and performed code reviews. Was tasked with team lead responsibilities as needed.Achievements:Drastically improved the performance of the most important pages of the website: the average page load time on production went down from ~600ms to ~100ms.Developed an original MVC framework to help… Show more Responsibilites:Developed new modules for public facing Remax website accessed in 60+ countries.Maintained, refactored, and improved old codebase.Mentored junior developers and performed code reviews. Was tasked with team lead responsibilities as needed.Achievements:Drastically improved the performance of the most important pages of the website: the average page load time on production went down from ~600ms to ~100ms.Developed an original MVC framework to help build new functionality, effectively decreasing development times by approximately 30%.• Implemented Global Property Search (http://global.remax.com/globalpropertysearch.aspx) on the company’s global website. Page features include: MVP-based infrastructure; rich jQuery-based client side, asynchronous property list and property details retrieval using AJAX, infinite scroll, expandable thumbnails and fast search results (querying a database that contains more than a million active listings and retrieving the results within several hundred milliseconds).• Implemented an External Leads Processor service which automatically extracts leads coming from external portals to agents that are using a CMS. All done in a very scalable and maintainable fashion that has been extended numerous times into production. • Maintained regional websites working with a large CMS used by RE/MAX users around the world in over 60 countries and generating hundreds of thousands of hits every month. Show less

St John’S, Newfoundland And Labrador, Canada

• Swarm intelligence, artificial social intelligence, collective behaviors in robotic teams, stigmergy and self-organization in robotic swarms.• Helped professors with the evaluation of student assignments. Checked for correctness and efficiency in programs written by students using Java and Python. Worked in Linux and MacOS.

Developing software in C++ for Windows Mobile and Symbian; working with IMAP and network protocols

Computer Science, 92.5%

Master'S Degree, Computer Science