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Canada

Remote First, Worldwide, US

OP Labs is scaling Ethereum by building the Optimism protocol.

- EQTY Lab, a Protocol Labs portfolio company, is building tools to enable trustworthy AI (verifiable training, inference, and data lineage) through cryptographically verifiable computing. - Joined a team of senior engineers building quickly with extreme focus and minimal overhead. - Used decentralized identity standards and applied cryptography including.

Remote, AE

- Led engineering for the user-facing products (bridge UI, staking UI, and other products). - Turned around around a struggling area: set out a vision for the structure and practices of a high-performing team and executed the changes required to get there. - Introduced a more effective org structure and led the team to embrace practices such as unit.

Ottawa, ON, CA

Led engineering for an area that included four teams responsible for multiple developer-facing products. (Leading engineering managers, shaping org structure, defining overall mission for the area, working with stakeholders to ensure our mission aligns with company priorities.)Then chosen to lead engineering for a newly-formed Blockchain area, bringing it.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

OK GROW! was a boutique consulting agency (10-15 employees) that helped businesses build great software products more successfully. Clients ranged from startups (several of which were acquired) to large organizations including Ticketmaster, Priceline.com, LoyaltyOne, and the Dubai Government.

US

Contract development work with Ruby on Rails, and devops tools including Puppet and Chef. I worked on projects for companies including Yellow Pages, and was involved with some interesting projects that had large scaling challenges including the Words With Friends game.

Toronto, ON, CA

Built a team and led the development of an online social platform to help friends share recommendations for great service providers. We were acquired by Canpages (now Yellow Pages). Ruby on Rails and AWS.Technical trivia: we were one of the first users of the private beta of Amazon EC2, and at the time I published the first public Ubuntu-based EC2 image.

Created a SaaS (web-based) product for improving the efficiency of on-boarding new employees and managing exiting employees. We defined a market which didn’t previously exist, and all major HR software now includes this functionality. We created a great product that our customers loved but ultimately failed because we did a poor job of selling it to.

Mountain View, California, US

Designed, built and launched the first online (web) version of TurboTax in Canada as a member of a 5-person team. It was here that I was first introduced to Agile development (Kent Beck's XP) and test-driven development, a very formative experience that shaped the rest of my career.Here I also had the experience of bridging the ops and development teams.

St. Jacobs, Ontario, CA

St. Jacobs, Ontario, CA

I was hired as the first web developer in the new media division of an established advertising agency. I set up internet connectivity to the office (ISDN! This was 1995!), set up both Linux-based and Windows-based web servers, and began creating some of the first interactive sites on the web using "CGI scripts".