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Kitchener, On, Ca

Broomfield, Co, Us

Broomfield, Co, Us

Kitchener, On, Ca

Lead the Platform team which is made up of common services and enabling technologies that are used across various products. Teams include Computer Vision, Data Science, DevOps, Device Applications, and two Platform teams.Highlights: - Lead the creation of a new common product platform, built on top of Kubernetes and Kafka - Driving multiple cloud optimizations that led to saving over 500k per year - Moving the organization to CI/CD using Gitlab with single click production deployments - Helping with the technical due diligence to raise almost 300 million dollars. - Helping with the technical due diligence and integration of acquisitions - Working with a 3rd party vendor to have them develop a mobile application - Utilizing contractors from various parts of the world to help augment teams to go faster

Kitchener, On, Ca

Lead the Platform team which is made up of common services and specialized skills that are used across various products. Teams include Computer Vision, Data Science, DevOps, Device Applications, and common Platform services.

Kitchener, On, Ca

Lead the creation of a Platform Team to help bring consistency to the Engineering organization in how things were built and delivered using a consistent stack of Angular, Kotlin, Kubernetes, and Kafka. The team consisted of 4 teams: Frontend Platform, Backend Platform, DevOps, and Device Applications.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Managing 3 teams: one responsible for platform features, one responsible for product features, and the last is a DevOps team which is responsible for the infrastructure that runs our product. Additionally, contributing technically to the DevOps team.Highlights:• Leading the initiatives to help move the architecture to Kubernetes and Kafka• Driving multiple cloud optimizations that led to saving over 1 million dollars per year while individually working on a project in my own time to saved another 500,000 dollars per year• Helping move the organization to CI/CD using Gitlab• Delivering new internal web tools to help drive operational efficiency within Engineering• Helping scale infrastructure to keep up with our growing customer base while ensuring everything is done through Infrastructure As Code (IaC)• Constantly working with the team to improve our operational and product security• Implementing a new Incident and RCA process while improving the existing release management processes to increase the operational maturity of Engineering• Managed the production on call rotation and participated in the rotation• Leading a product sprint team that was known for hitting project dates

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Helped migrate the organization to Infrastructure as Code• Lead the effort of migrating to a multi-cluster using Kubernetes deployed via Kops across 6 different AWS regions• Responsible for production systems and scaling them as the company grows• Support the organizations new infrastructure requirements• Responsible for production costs and driving cost reductions across the team and organization, completing savings of over 1.5k per day in cloud clouds• Responsible for systems that sync data between the product and business systems to drive efficiency in sales and marketing

Waterloo, Ontario , Ca

Responsible for leading the various engineering teams: DevOps, Build & Release, Fraud & Security, Internal Web Application Development, and IT.Highlights:• Scaling the infrastructure to support growth while decreasing the cost per daily active user• Constantly adding new web application features to support new product features and enabling the customers to do more via the Self Help Portal• Rolling out an Incident and RCA process to ensure we learn from all production issues• Supporting all internal systems such as Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, etc.• Improving software release tooling to make it faster and more efficient to release software• Driving containerization and orchestration within the organization• Ensuring our infrastructure can defend against massive botnet attacks• Helping to bring in key talent to build organizational capability within Engineering

Waterloo, Ontario , Ca

Responsible for leading the Build & Release team within Engineering supporting build infrastructure, build pipelines and release tools for Server, Android, iOS, Web, and Desktop platforms. Additionally, ensuring test automation and static code analysis is built into the release process.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Built two new teams: a new cloud development and a DevOps team. The cloud development teams goal was to build SaaS business to compliment the current hardware business while the DevOps team goal is to manage internal systems and tools to drive efficiency, traceability, and quality within engineering.Cloud Development Highlights:• An industry leading Live Video & Telemetry product that has less than three seconds in latency• A fleet management product to maintain accurate flight records of aircrafts, pilots, batteries, and payloads• A media management product to manage all of the media produced by an aircraft• High quality software delivery every two weeks or less through Test Driven development, Code Reviews, Static Code Analysis, and Server MonitoringDevOps Highlights:• Responsible for internal systems such as the Factory Load Station, Flight Analytics Web Application, Installers, Build System, Jenkins, Jira, Crucible, Confluence, Static Code Analysis tools (Klocwork, Cppcheck, pylint, PMD, Findbugs)

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Managed Co-ops which built internal web applications to analyze flight logs• Developed and supported installers, factory load station, aircraft and base station web applications, software upgrades, tablet images, charger firmware, Linux builds, and tool chains• Deployed static code analysis and fixed many issues across the code base• Developed a new Wifi network monitor in C to be more efficient (less RAM/CPU) and more accurate, previously was in Python• Developed a solution to increased network throughput 2.5X in most situations• Setup and launched Confluence (Wiki) and Crucible (Code Reviews)• Helped troubleshoot complex system issues like kernel stalls and memory leaks• Helped reduce CPU and RAM usage by optimizing Python applications and OS settings• Decreased build time from 12 minutes to 2.5 minutes

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Manage a team which provides leadership and direction on software development practices, and tooling across the device software organization. The goal is to advance developer and tester productivity while increasing software quality.Highlights:• Facilitated delivery of new internal tools to speed up development and testing including a(n): • Virtual file system to access all development and test tools • Source control tool to standardize how a developer gets access to required sources (Git, Subversion, and Perforce) • Object based Cloud Storage solution (Openstack Swift)• Product owner for some internal tools to ensure the highest impact features are developed first• Helped standardize the approach to test automation both for local device testing and testing against a cloud of devices• Collaborated with IT to ensure hardware and software met development requirements

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Managed 3 different teams: • A web application development team that drove operational efficiency within the Software R&D organization• A development team which customized PTC Integrity which is an Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) tool used to manage Requirements, Defects, Features, Test Cases, Test Execution, etc.• A support team which supported both the PTC Integrity and the Web Application portal

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

Managed several teams:- A web application development team that drove operational efficiency within the Software R&D organization. - A software integration team responsible for handheld application integration and builds.- A device management team responsible for ensuring developers had the prototype devices when they needed them- A project management team which helped institutionalize tools and build system changes- An integration team responsible for importing and exporting device localizationHighlights included:- The web application portal was consistently ranked #1 tool by development during annual survey's. The web portal was also consistently ranked #1 in customer support.- Drove down build times by over 50% by streamlining the release process and improving build tools.- Drove down the costs of devices by ensuring the utilization rate of prototype devices was high and that older devices were taken back and redistributed to other organizations. Saved 600,000 through device reuse alone.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Led in setup of the new LinuxJava software platform which included the build environment, component integration, and memory architecture• Rolled out two quality tools (Klocwork InSpect and InForce) for 3G software• Architected and developed internal automation tools in CGI, Perl, Excell/VB Script and SQL to speed up the software integration process• Led many build time initiatives that reduced build times by 5X and saved millions over a course of a year

Chicago, Il, Us

- Developed software features for the iDEN network – (Nextel Two-Way Radio) - Developed and supported an automated test tool that was used by development to automate 8000 test cases- Performed processes on the complete software development life cycle including: Requirement Documents, Detailed Design Documents, Test Design Documents, Description of Logic, Coding, Code Reviews, Unit Testing, and White Box Testing

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

- Implemented a software distribution process to distribute software automatically to thousands of Bell Canada computers using an IBM software package called Tivoli- Developed an inventory website that keeps track of the thousands of Bell computers using an IIS server running Oracle client- Troubleshoot faulty software distributions in order to increase the distribution success rate- Documented the software distribution process and provided regular reports on the success rate

Applied Science, Computer Engineering

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