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Kitchener, On, Ca

Technical team lead and engineering manager of the Rules Engine product. Currently managing a team of seven, including five engineers ranging from entry-level to senior SEs. Rules Engine solves interoperability problems at EA for features such as viewership rewards, subscription rewards, and Quests.Tech highlights: Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, NATS.io, Redis, Istio & Envoy, Aurora MySQL, Terraform, Helm, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker

Technical team lead of the newly created Rules Engine team. Responsible for the design and execution of the "if-this-then-that" product used internally by EA services. Currently handles approximately 1.6 million evaluations per second to support Quest style use-cases.Tech highlights: Kotlin, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, NATS.io, Redis, Istio & Envoy, Aurora MySQL, Terraform, Helm, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker

EADP Marketplace- Expanded into a leadership role on the Marketplace product- Responsible for building a workflow system for GDPR compliancy using AWS SWF, Lambda - framework system now in-use by three additional teams across the EADP organization and supporting over 30 unique workflows- Workflow system expanded to solve other workflow-related problems within the Marketplace space; in particular to help solve automation gaps in existing onboarding workflows; reducing the time to provision a new customer from 5-7 days to 15 minutes (and from several engineering domains to be involved, down to just allowing the customer to self-serve)Other tech highlights: Kotlin, Spring Boot, Drools, Kafka, NATS

EADP Marketplace- Transitioned from the Social/Mobile team to be part of the initial team responsible for designing and implementing the Marketplace service- Marketplace is EA's internal service for designing, managing and running virtual economies at scale; including things like item management, currency management, virtual storefronts, and packs- Currently used in titles such as: Apex Legends, Anthem, Battlefield 5, NHL franchise, Madden franchise, Battlefront II, Need for Speed franchise, and growing each year- Tested at scale to hundreds of thousands of RPS, millions of concurrent users- Originally built using EA's internal Actor System (e.g. similar model to Akka, Microsoft Orleans) called Orbit- Event-sourcing persistence layer backed by AWS RDSOther tech highlights: ECS/Fargate, Vault/Consul, DataDog, ELK, Zipkin, Java/Python/Golang

EADP Mobile & Social - Push Notifications, In-Game Messaging, Real-time Messaging- Worked on EA's internal, multi-tenant, push notification service delivering billions of push notifications per month- Personal contributions were features such as: S3-driven campaign scheduling, real-time/batch processing of events using AWS Firehose/EMR/SQS and Aurora; full stack implementation of rich push notifications and deep linking for Android and iOS- Heavily made use of AWS tech stack; DynamoDB dynamic table provisioning, rate limiting/throttling via ElastiCache/memcached, Beanstalk/Cloudformation- Internal tech stack highlights: Maven, Terraform, Packer, Bamboo, Guice, Shiro, Codehale, Gatling- Also briefly worked on EA's multi-tenant real-time chat service- Made use of Akka I/O for persistent connections, Redis PubSub, Protobuf, rxJava

London, On

Instructed students, graded assignments, and organized lab content for the third-year Design course at Western. This involved working with an organization that sponsored the third-year project. Full-year project included developing an Android mobile application and .NET Windows Forms Application

London, On

Researched, tested, and documented a comparison for various NoSQL implementations including Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, and Apache HBase for a local company that provides environmental sensoring to businesses.

London, On

Furthered a relationship with a local health research institute. During this time I researched and implemented privacy and security solutions for them for a data migration and aggregation project. Implementation included deploying a two-way authentication handshake for the health research institute and their clients.

London, Ontario

Taught high-school students introductory programming and software engineering principles. This was done through a month long project where the students were asked to build BrickBreaker (2011) and Space Invaders (2012) using JavaFX and Netbeans.

London, Ontario

Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Western Ontario. Worked on projects with the Lawson Health Research Institute and published a paper on "Fine-Grained Filtering of Data Providing Web Services with XACML".

Master Of Engineering Science (Mesc), Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Computer Software Engineering