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• Empower and create a harmonious environment for my teams to think critically and consider innovative approaches to problem solving that has lead to deep improvements in cyber security posture, better organized IT infrastructure across the globe that’s more efficient to operate, and more robust data related applications• Provide thought leadership in developing AI/ML and Gen-AI roadmap that’s valuable to all employees in the ever growing list of areas including customer service… Show more • Empower and create a harmonious environment for my teams to think critically and consider innovative approaches to problem solving that has lead to deep improvements in cyber security posture, better organized IT infrastructure across the globe that’s more efficient to operate, and more robust data related applications• Provide thought leadership in developing AI/ML and Gen-AI roadmap that’s valuable to all employees in the ever growing list of areas including customer service, quality, supply chain, and cyber security• Formulate strategy for disaster recovery and business continuity planning with the objective to keep the business fully running in the event of a cyber security incident• Remain active with technical hands-on contributions in coding development and define sound approach to productively solve challenges Show less

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Building and maintaining integral partnership between various parts of business and teams to lead Data Engineering, IT Infrastructure and IT Security initiatives• Routinely working with senior leadership (Directors, VPs, CEO/CFO/COO/CISO) to strategically align with business goals• Provide guidance and coaching for developing team members and producing leadership opportunities to make them productive, consequently boosting morale of teams to become high functioning•… Show more • Building and maintaining integral partnership between various parts of business and teams to lead Data Engineering, IT Infrastructure and IT Security initiatives• Routinely working with senior leadership (Directors, VPs, CEO/CFO/COO/CISO) to strategically align with business goals• Provide guidance and coaching for developing team members and producing leadership opportunities to make them productive, consequently boosting morale of teams to become high functioning• Established efficient process and expectations with external vendors and managed service providers while managing risk to timely deliver significant projects• Deeply involved with 3rd party vendors, consultants and MSP contract negotitions, department budgeting and cost optimization, and services/resources management related to technology• Continue to have strong hands on software development contributions for data engineering related projects• Oversee and deliver major projects on time including various data related work loads, ETL, dashboards, IT infrastructure upgrades across all global locations, migration of full on-prem data center to AWS cloud, support distribution center operations, structuring internal helpdesk, and IT security advancements to strengthen security posture across the enterprise Show less

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Researched and worked with vendors in selection of new technologies including leading adoption of AWS cloud platform across the organization• Became core technical leader in development of data ingestion services using AWS • Responsible for data strategy, development, testing, maintenance, and driving teams to deliver significant data realated projects• Built retailer centric data platform at the center of analytics to help drive ongoing retailer value and business… Show more • Researched and worked with vendors in selection of new technologies including leading adoption of AWS cloud platform across the organization• Became core technical leader in development of data ingestion services using AWS • Responsible for data strategy, development, testing, maintenance, and driving teams to deliver significant data realated projects• Built retailer centric data platform at the center of analytics to help drive ongoing retailer value and business decisions• Developed a data ingestion framework from ground up in Python with built in testing facilities as a factory to quickly deploy ETL data pipelines• Created ETL pipelines for vendor integrations including POS, retailer data aggregators, proprietary scanner data, and internal feeds for improved analytics• Provided mentorship and education to non-technical team members including Business (SQL, DB/data management/dev best practices) which allowed them to interact with the data more effectively• Created training materials including presentations, procedures, tutorials and imaged cloud workstation deployments to onboard new developers efficiently• Lead technical support for data lake and various other projects including analytics reporting platform in AWS • Supported various teams in their own data initiatives including digital, sales ops, research & development, marketing, brand and supply chain departments Show less

• Principal technical lead for On-prem to Cloud data migration project using Python• Providing strategy, design solution, data modeling, estimates, and hands on implementation• Working with external stakeholders and vendors to gather requirements• Developing pipelines to move data from NoSQL DB to analytics DB using Talend• Built a near real-time data pipeline using Kafka and Python to support live dashboards

• Providing strategic roadmap and implementation plans to improve quality in BI• Installed best practices for data warehouse, reports, and dashboards development• Designed processes and testing methods to ensure deliverables meet high standards• Architected and implemented an automated testing facility for data warehouse • Developed various tools and POCs to improve deployment and data engineering tasks• Guiding the development team to adhere to software engineering best… Show more • Providing strategic roadmap and implementation plans to improve quality in BI• Installed best practices for data warehouse, reports, and dashboards development• Designed processes and testing methods to ensure deliverables meet high standards• Architected and implemented an automated testing facility for data warehouse • Developed various tools and POCs to improve deployment and data engineering tasks• Guiding the development team to adhere to software engineering best practices and heavilyreducing regression issues after deployment Show less

• Responsible for driving automation strategy for functional, regression, performance testing• Built automated testing systems using Python for SaaS web application products• Managing automation teams and acting as Product Owner to implement automation roadmap• Regularly mentored, held 1-on-1 meetings and gave performance reviews to team members• Transitioned testing from QA team activity to Test Driven Development approach

• Providing QE leadership for large web applications and projects• Formulating strategy, architecture and planning across multiple teams to ensure high quality• Developed tools using PHP, Python to automate testing and reduce time to deployment• Contributed to continuous improvement, change management and deployment policy• Transformed engineering culture from Waterfall to Agile development methodology• Effectively communicated key metrics to leaders and stakeholders

Oversaw all QA activity for projects delivered through the Online Solutions Group implementing new features to increase consumer engagement and experience. These software products are deployed to all Instore Kiosks in over 250 stores nationwide as well as on the Online website.

Performed software quality testing on web applications designed to deliver real-time news, weather and maps content easily and quickly for broadcasting by TV stations. Developed a reliable and fully automated system for build, deployment, maintenance, and testing processes to improve efficiency in testing and reduce human error.

Toronto

Developed a dynamic testing framework to supplement automation testing with .NET Framework architecture. Developed multiple in-house tools to aid in build and testing processes; these tools varied in complexity from tying up various applications together to generating reports for build process from MS Visual Source Safe source control DB using Visual Source Safe API

Honors B. Sc., Computer Science

Honours B.Sc. Computer Science, Computer Science With Primary Focus On Software Engineering