Primary advisory role to businesses across Canada and the USA, making professional recommendations for technology projects including: software, infrastructure, big data, cloud, and talent acquisition.

Reported to Director of Engineering.• Leader of 12 developers and QA across two multi-functional teams utilizing Scrum/Agile methodologies.• Successfully delivered new client analytics platform and SOC investigation dashboard using highly reusable component-driven React.js view layer over top of a highly scalable, high throughput, hybrid cloud SOA pipeline consisting of stateless REST APIs, distributed data sources, and multi-tenant API and client IaM.• Tasked with co-driving the monumental shift of critical data pipeline and all downstream platforms away from a series of monolithic applications to a well-defined, highly efficient event-driven architecture.• Established API contract repository following strict semver control policies.• Co-led initiative to develop numerous, highly reusable and stateless APIs using varying languages including Scala, Python, Node.js, Clojure, and Ruby.• Co-led initiative to consolidate all builds and subsequent deployments through a newly designed CI/CD/test automation pipeline.• Co-led initiative to establish a centralized service logging and alerting system.• Co-led initiative to lift and shift on-prem infrastructure to the cloud resulting in significant cost savings and a newfound highly efficient SDLC.• Endlessly striving to influence change by coaching, mentoring, and training fellow software engineers.• Ensure development best-practices are followed such as OOP design patterns (when applicable), TDD, efficient code reviews, tight feedback loops, reusable components, and thorough documentation.• On-going procurement and subsequent career development of new members within the engineering department.• Weekly 1:1's with my direct reports to discuss goals, performance, and general well-being.• Collaborate with product owners, CS/CE groups, and various department leads to translate product-level asks and customer feedback into technical roadmaps.

Reported to the CTO, and brought on board to aid in the rebuild of the flagship, client-facing product (in parallel with maintaining existing products/services) from the ground-up which allowed clients to create and customize their very own, highly-customziable online educational courses to be used within their organization. • Oversee technical design of system/application service-oriented architecture. • Scoping delivery estimates. • Development hiring manager. • Hold regular 1:1's with my team members. • Establish CI/CD pipeline. • Work with team to improve code quality. • Successfully launched a multi award winning product (v2.0) within delivery estimates and budget constraints. • Integration of a highly robust multi-tenant IaM to accommodate the product requirement where clients can have n clients with re-seller capabilities. These new capabilities resulted in a record-breaking year with regard to client acquisition and far exceeded sales expectations. • Established CI/CD pipeline. • Technologies (non-exhaustive): AWS, JavaScript, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Jenkins, Moodle.

Reported to the CTO, and led a team of 5 developers and 1 QA through a full, ground-up development and deployment of large-scale company’s online real estate marketing presence using a multitude of varying technologies. • Providing technical direction of the product. • Seek out, establish, and maintain 3rd-party relationships with companies such as MLS.ca, VRBO, HomeAway. • Hiring manager. • Hold weekly 1:1's with my direct reports where we would discuss goals and performance. • Troubleshoot and make recommendations per pipeline/applications issues as they would arise. • Using my experience of SEO to ensure that the product was meeting search engine requirements. • Played an intricate role in the successful establishment of new partner relationships. • Through my technical guidance we developed a new data processing pipeline and fully responsive UI resulting in a competitive online real estate marketing presence. • Utilizing my experience in SEO we ranked very well organically in SERPs. • Played a key role as we transitioned from a monolithic application approach to a microservice-driven architecture. • Led initiative to procure analytics for use within our ML team. This allowed for a level of AI/predictive analysis on a per-user account basis within the application and ultimately led to a significant increase in revenue by way of offering items such as tailored mortgage loans. • Technologies (non-exhaustive): AWS, Apache Kafka, NGINX, SOA (micro-services), PHP, Python, JavaScript (React.js), MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, ELK, SphinxSE/QL, IaM.

Development Manager for an apartment rentals website/company in Canada, a sister company to Housing Block, Inc.I led a team of 4 developers and one QA during the ground-up development and deployment of the web-based product.Technologies: LAMP, SphinxSE/QL, jQuery/JavaScript, CSS/3, HTML/5, Google PageSpeed Module, Memcached, IaM.