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Waterloo, On

• Responsible for leading a team of ~12 in a fast-growing organization – team budgets, resourcing, hiring pipelines, full planning cycle• Provide guidance and mentorship through goal setting, 1:1s, performance feedback and on a daily basis through code reviews and support• Participate and lead strategic initiative meetings with cross-functional leadership groups to remove impediments across the organization• Manage team priorities and workload through all phases from ideation to release• Work closely with PM team to align development team with roadmap priorities• Communicate issues and challenges to other stakeholders at all levels of leadership• Participate in cybersecurity validation work e.g. secure code, best practices• Plan, design, and build a brand-new product to service a new market using the latest cloud deployment techniques - .net core 3.1, microservices, docker, Kubernetes• Led technology modernization efforts to migrate legacy code base from AngularJS->Angular, CoffeeScript ->TypeScript while maintaining an existing shippable product• Utilize incredible debugging skills combined with strong system knowledge to solve issues quickly, confidently, and correctly• Understand, improve, and create algorithms to improve product features and performance – including pioneering an internal algorithm discovery tool to more quickly understand where the important decisions in the algorithm happened in real-world scenarios

Waterloo, Ontario

• Build robust, well-tested solutions using C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server on a large monolithic code base including significant performance improvement, algorithm design work• Utilize Gitlab CI & Octopus Deploy to introduce solid build pipelines to quicken release cycles for more reliable QA and faster feedback• Design and build new dashboards to bring customer insights to a unique data-driven industry• Apply design patterns and refactor code to improve performance, security, and maintainability• Establish internal experimental time to be able to find new ideas and technology that can be applied to future business ideas (e.g. “hack weeks”)

Waterloo, On

Creates enterprise web and mobile solutions using HTML, Javascript, and ASP.NET as part of an agile team. Leverages different frontend technologies to suit the project including Knockout, Backbone, and Durandal. Backend systems are created with ASP.NET MVC, Web API, or WCF. Strong focus on creating enterprise quality systems using Inversion of Control, Dependency Injection patterns to separate concerns and create testable solutions.

Worked as part of the HR Solutions team to add features and deploy a HR portal to employees throughout Canada and Latin America. Investigated and solved site performance issues as well as developed a cross-domain trust relationship to be able to use AD authentication.Technologies utilized: Java, Javascript, HTML, Active Directory (ADAM)

Participated in the Google Summer of Code program working remotely with the Open Source Application Foundation adding features to their personal information management software Chandler. Developed new features to existing program using Python, collaborated with software team in San Francisco.