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• Worked with the data search engine teams to provide technical mentorship and coaching as we solved hard problems in digital forensics and incident response workflows.
• Architected and developed a cloud-native search engine service for a newly launched SaaS-based digital forensics/incident response platform on AWS, capable of processing millions of forensic artifact hits per day.
• Founding member of the Architecture Steering Committee, a group of senior tech leaders who collaborate with engineering teams across the organization to solve challenging technical problems
• Supported the team in the development of new features, bug fixes, technical debt initiatives, and customer service investigations
• Collaborated with other technical leads to advocate for technical initiatives to modernize the architecture of the flagship product, AXIOM
• Championed a new engine platform team to help modernize the search engine and accelerate other teams relying on the engine

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• Developing new features and quality of life improvements on Magnet Forensics flagship digital forensics platform, Axiom, using C# and SQLite

Waterloo, Ontario

• After Karos Health got acquired by Vital Images, I continued in my role as a senior software engineer on the data and workflow management platform for the company
• Led the architecture and development of one of the company’s largest project that involved data management and orchestration for over 10 million medical studies per year (500 TB/year), for over 8 million patient
• Developed highly scalable distributed systems leveraging Cassandra, ElasticSearch, and Apache NiFi to solve big data challenges in the radiology industry
• Developed a unified product monitoring solution for all the company’s products based on the Elastic stack (Beats, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana) to get consistent observability across different products
• Joined the Office of the CTO as a software architect where I contribute to the architecture of the entire line of Vital Images products.
• Drove the implementation of various development workflow processes and philosophies to improve overall product quality, including: - Improvements to our quality management system to enable more frequent security.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Developing fault tolerant, secure, and scalable distributed systems for exchanging healthcare information using Java, Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra.
• Lead the development of many major features, including a suite of quality control tools, a medical image compression router, and numerous other standards based healthcare components.
• Researching and designing efficient algorithms and software architecture to solve interoperability problems in the healthcare industry.

• Developed two C# applications to transform medical incident information into standardized formats and export them securely to other systems.
• Created a suite of automated tests to validate software against rigorous healthcare specifications.

Waterloo, ON

• Developed business opportunities for Christie Digital's newest visualization products by researching and pursuing various markets including home design and interactive museum exhibits.
• Collaborated with a small, interdisciplinary group of students to create prototypes for potential clients.

• Created web-based user interfaces using Java and Google Web Toolkit with a focus on user experience
• Collaborated closely with a Scrum team to produce well-tested software that met client requirements
• Researched, designed, and implemented scalable RESTful APIs that allowed the user interface to communicate with server code

• Gathered requirements from users for an application that manipulated geographic information for the market research field
• Planned and coded a 50,000 line application using C#.NET 3.5, and SQL Server 2008
• Integrated with third party mapping software with limited documentation and support

• Collaborated with the Quality Assurance team to report and verify program defects for medical imaging software
• Wrote several detailed white papers for supervisors and future co-op students
• Developed software in C# to help the QA team handle bug reports in a concise, organized manner

• Developed PHP web-based administrative software by expanding on legacy code
• Created algorithms and documentation with two other volunteers

• Coordinated meetings for the school robotics club with about 20 members
• Created documentation including planning articles, meeting logs, and blueprints

• Developed Alumni website using HTML, PHP, and MySQL databases
• Managed all stages of the development cycle and compiled documentation
• Communicated effectively with my supervisor to handle changing requirements