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Vancouver, BC, CA

New Jersey, United States

Arizona, United States

· Supervised and scaled an AI-based messaging service to support over 1,000 concurrent active users.· Established an efficient product initiation & engineering process for the entire company· Mentored engineers and founders on the complexities of launching and growing a startup.· Performed duties of an active CISO: Led "no personal account" practices.

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· Created and executed plans to scale engineering and product teams in early-stage startups.· Managed a design and development studio, providing consulting services to startups and launching micro-SaaS products.· Successfully launched in-house products, contributing to the studio's success.

Santa Monica, California, United States

· Launched and scaled a full-stack AI based product to reach thousands of weekly users.· Conducted R&D on multifaceted encryption solutions for data storage and embeddings, covering client-side, in-flight, and in-database encryption.· Developed extensive developer experience (DX) tooling for the entire company, forming the foundation of the engineering.

Santa Monica, California, United States

· Led engineering efforts for the launch of in-house NFTs.· Provided engineering leadership on full-stack projects using Node.js, Hasura, AWS Lambdas, Timescale, and Apollo caching strategies.· Reduced app CPU consumption on core pages from 50% to 5% through various optimization efforts.

- Worked on a variety of small start-up oriented projects- A lot of code writing and clarifying timelines and product requirements- Working directly with clients acting as a product, design, development consultant

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Extensive Apollo GraphQL, Sockets and Dnd - Worked on performance and UI for big data - Was a founding member of the performance oriented project, jumpstarted initial planning, architecture and development of the core product feature, the agile board- Project documentation and R&D- Together with a growing team lead the project to an MVP and eventual.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

- Helped develop a technical roadmap and breakdown of tasks on a variety of large web projects- Was representing the organization on the calls with clients, communicating the development approach and prompting for information and direction- Was greatly enjoying just doing development work and sometimes architecture of full-stack web pieces

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Spearheaded training and mentoring of engineers within and outside of the team- Developed the team of self-sufficient, creative frontend experts- Defined technical product vision, established an internal roadmap- Facilitated development of joyful team culture- Established solid processes around product development and releases, delegated heavily- Worked.

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Was responsible for growing the team, from a single person to a team of four professionals; developed technical hiring practices and approach, defined team vision and approach to development- Represented frontend team in the company providing support, expertise, and opinion- Architected the core of all frontend based tools, selecting technologies.

Vancouver, Canada Area

- Was responsible for development and innovations in an internal web application built with AngularJS.- Provided UX expertise and developed feature elements and user interfaces for administrative applications to be used to control and validate client datasets, and provide GUI for a data team to easily monitor and manage internal databases.- Due to the.

Vancouver, Canada Area

I co-founded a startup focused on planning, marketing, and organizing local dance events. Working alongside two co-founders, we each took on multiple roles—securing permits, shaping creative vision, and managing finances.My primary responsibilities included event logistics, coordinating with suppliers and DJ artists, and managing the events themselves..

Altmba36 Lava Cohort

I was privileged to be selected to an excellent Seth Godin's altMBA program. It was surprisingly introspective, focused on forming habits.

Diploma In Digital Design, Digital Design, 95% Average Grade

Activities and Societies: Interactive Studies representative for the program on internal events At VFS we were going through an intensive.

Diploma In Acting Essentials, Acting Essentials, 95% Average Grade

This was a passion project of mine, a challenge for myself. It was exciting, the people you meet, strangers at first, after a couple of.

Communication And Media Studies, Averaged At 85%

I was exposed to wide variety of topics, but the main direction of interest was Business, Philosophy and Communication.