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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Full stack developer working on the occupancy intelligence platform, providing companies with data to help make better informed decisions on their real estate portfolios

Remote

Led efficient teams ranging in size from 2 to 9 focussed on signup efficiencies, experimentation, automation, data driven Business Intelligence (BI) tooling, and access control mechanisms. This resulted in significant increase in merchant signup and retention, increase in employee happiness and career growth.- Worked with cross-disciplines Product Managers, UX, and Data Engineers to align on team roadmap- Led a team that ran over 40 experiments resulting in over 110,000 new annual merchants- Led a project that uses ML to provide context aware guidance to new merchants on next steps in their entrepreneurial journey- Led a project that automates onboarding guidance to new merchants, coordinating with other teams and orgs to ensure smooth delivery. This unlocked the ability to create new guidance by non-engineers.- Improved team culture and happiness by reducing number of concurrent projects and giving candid feedback as well as congratulating developers- Created and completed technical health initiative cleaning up old experiments in the system. This involved documenting, estimating, aligning and scheduling the work to remove over 60 past experiments- Created clear github project boards to provide cross-discipline visibility on status of projects- Pioneered the introduction of mob pairing and mob reviewing sessions which increased overall developer knowledge on all projects and leveled up teams ability- Pioneered close communication with cross-disciplines reducing iterations of project planning and improving delivery time by over 30%

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

- Integrated Sift API into Shopify’s signup flow for Spam mitigation - removed the need to throttle traffic during DOS and spam attacks (increase of merchant signups by 40%) reducing load on infrastructure and developer time. Navigated procurement of the Sift contract with Finance- Dropshipping A/B experiment updating signup flow by amending the UX flow gathering user provided and metadata, then providing new signups with customized advice. Added 22, 000 gross new merchants- Updated experiment framework to allow for running experiments with inclusion and exclusion groups improving our ability to run multiple experiments on the same surface area concurrently. Increased our throughput of experiments by 8 times.- Built an internal UI and Service to allow non-developers to build custom merchant onboarding tasks which enabled the team to scale and other teams to execute on their new merchant guidance- Created POC for internal BI tool to integrate with Superset (OSS) and replace our need for maintaining the visualization front end- Implemented GraphQL application-level authorization to limit access to internal BI service. The service is a core metric visualization tool used for company-wide strategic initiatives. This initiative prevented accidental edits which could cause major disruption for executives.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Managed 3 full stack teams of 6 developers in a VC backed start-up coaching developers through various stages of their careers.- Increased 3rd party POS system integrations by 7, onboarding ~30 new customers- Enabled cloud-based file attachment functionality with push notifications in communication tools- Facilitated owner/manager communication through staff communication tools- Advanced career growth of 4 developers- Developed career path for the company’s first staff developer position- Established individual performance plan for engineering department- Critically assessed and improved technical plans of senior developers- Educated new team members on development processes and architecture patterns- Worked with HR to improve the existing interview process- Collaborated with HR to enhance existing interview process

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Responsible for ensuring all mentors are educating their mentees effectively - Responsible for the onboarding of all new developers- Created guidelines on new employee expectations- Coach developers on different mentoring approaches ensuring strong communication- Delivering core-architecture talk to all new employees reducing their onboarding time

Saskatoon

**Solido was acquired by Mentor, A Siemens Business** Software developer, building features for statistical and machine learning EDA software suite- Design, build, and maintain new features for customers- Create production applications to enabled developers to do their job efficiently- Requirement gathering for customer requests for additional features- Setting up meetings with customers to ensure that the features requested are meeting their expectations and to clarify any changes that need to be made- Assist in supporting customer calls and requests alongside application engineers

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Team Operations-Ensuring the smooth operation of all engineering teams, budget analysis, estimation of team project timelines- Responsible for managing the budget and status updates for Product Owners- Pricing the team’s estimated new projects Software Developer- Developed multiple web and responsive web applications for clients such as Viterra, Cameco and PotashCorp. - Developed multiple websites ensuring cross-browser compatibility

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ruby on Rails developer responsible for re-writing the entire company’s sports website service- Redesigned company website using Ruby on Rails, Vanilla Javascript, HTML and CSS- Ensured the website was able to receive a extremely high volume of traffic - SCRUM-master for the team

Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Software Engineer - Developed custom financial applications for large organizations such as Rolls Royce, Visa and government councils. - Full-stack development for PHP-based financial applications- Ensured applications were PCI compliant- Replaced company website using Ruby on Rails