Kenneth Buck Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

London, England, United Kingdom

· Develop distributed multi-cloud global payment gateway to integrate with FedNow payment scheme· Collaborate with teams of developers and product owners spanning multiple countries and time zones· On-call rotation for analyzing internal logging and telemetry to diagnose, and resolve, platform issues· Implemented open tracing and integrated it with the rest of the Form3 platform providing key insights for troubleshooting· Codified reusable chaos experiments as of part ongoing disaster recovery testing and planning· Contribute bug fixes and features to wider platform services· Conduct code reviews

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

· Led and managed three platform service teams (5-6 people each) that focused on the next generation Fiix platform · Owned four key platform services, including authentication, and maintained a minimum uptime of 99.999%· Successfully supported delivery of Fiix’s new analytics platform, representing a massive improvement in capabilities and leading to an increase in overall Customer NPS of 10· Created and improved upon engineering planning and processes· Provided key architectural guidance to all teams working on the new platform · On-call leader, provided escalation support across all Fiix engineering teams · Conducted technical interviews for the recruitment of new talent· Conducted code reviews

Toronto, Canada Area

· Led, mentored, and managed a cross-functional team of 6 people, and ensured a successful transition to remote work during the pandemic· Designed and built an event sourced microservice for auth and user management· Collaborated with relevant stakeholders to plan, and execute on, an ongoing team roadmap· Worked on wider next generation Fiix platform, involving the dismantling of a legacy monolithic application into a distributed microservices architecture· Heavy emphasis on code quality and testing at each level of the testing pyramid· Conducted technical interviews for the recruitment of new talent· Conducted code reviews· Recipient of coveted, peer nominated, Fiix quarterly ”Gold Hard Hat” Award in second quarter of 2019 · Recipient of Fiix quarterly ”Innovation” award

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

· Reverse engineered and reimplemented legacy core application infrastructure as code· Dockerized legacy core application, made it portable, and transitioned it into an ECS productionenvironment· Dockerized and codified CI server resulting in highly stable and consistent test runs and artifact builds· Improved application release process, allowing for ”push button” deployments· Heavy emphasis on code quality and testing at each level of the testing pyramid· Conducted code reviews

Toronto, Canada Area

· Rebuilt CIBC / President’s Choice Financial Online Banking from the ground up as Single Page Applications (SPA) using the EmberJS framework· Designed and implemented production ready EmberJS addons, including one for vendor-agnostic analytics· Mentored colleagues that were new to the EmberJS framework· Heavy emphasis on code quality through high test coverage and peer reviewed merge requests

Calgary, Canada Area

· Recruited and led a team of 3 developers as part of a startup targeting the wedding industry · Implemented the frontend as a Single Page Application using a modern JavaScript framework · Designed and implemented a multi-layered SaaS platform, which included an integration with Stripe · Fostered high development standards and code robustness through version control,automated testing, and ongoing code reviews

Calgary, Canada Area

· Designed and implemented interactive marketing, commerce, and database solutions (PHP, MySQL).· Responsible as sole developer to carry client projects through the full development lifecycle.· Experience with both greenfield and legacy projects.· Competed in intraoffice coding challenge in 2012

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

· Collaboration the with U of C Department of Archaeology in collecting cultural information through Google Maps · Supported ongoing research involving the relationship between language, landscape, and sentiment· Developed a web based application (https://arcticiq.ca) geared towards the collection, storage, and transmission of traditional Inuit knowledge as it relates to landscape· Coauthored a book chapter entitled ”Sentiment Analysis of Inuit Place Names from the Kivalliq District of Nunavut”, included in ”Memory and Landscape, Indigenous Responses to a Changing North”

Vancouver, Canada Area

· Assisted in reconstructing historical fish catch data in order to assess the anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems and fish populations· Worked independently while maintaining clear communication with project team members · Collected, digitized, indexed and parsed historical documents for use in ongoing publications· Accurate entry of large volumes of data· Required excellent time management over a wide range of tasks

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Honorary Alumni, Anthropology

University of Calgary student exchange program.

Bachelor Of Science, Archaeology, Minor In Anthropology

Participated in an exchange program to the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2006. Honorary NUS Alumni status.