Peerly

Staff Developer

January 2022 — Present

Peerly grew out of PrimeContact, the company where I started my career as technical co-founder, into the most innovative platform for political, NGO messaging in North America.  I returned at the request of my friend, the CEO, to accelerate our platform.

• Design our first AI/LLM feature for voter sentiment analysis, question answering using Python, LangChain, Pinecone Vector DB
• Migrate production MySQL database to Google Cloud
• Architect robust video encoding pipeline used by 64% of jobs executed on our platform to withstand 2022 US midterm election traffic surge
• Build out monitoring, alerting with Grafana, Prometheus, Google cloud tools
• Implement training plan for Peerly’s first junior developer, focusing on TypeScript fundamentals

Nulogy

Senior Full Stack Developer, API & Platform Teams

August 2018 — December 2021

As a member of Nulogy’s API team I helped add public APIs to our Rails monolith, integrate third-party vendors, and build the initial implementation of Nulogy’s data warehouse. I was fortunate to be a part of the following projects.

• R&D for data warehouse using Kafka, Snowflake
• Add GraphQL to Nulogy’s Ruby on Rails monolith
• Build integration microservices for third-party vendors using AWS Lambda
• Productionize beta version of TypeScript multi-vendor reporting framework designed by Nulogy’s architects
• Conduct 50+ technical interviews, mentor developers in pair programming and test driven development
• Integrate Mulesoft with Nulogy’s platform, work closely with customer, external Nulogy team on first integration

FreshBooks

Full Stack Developer

December 2015 — August 2018

FreshBooks provides SMBs with simple accounting and invoicing. I had broad learning experiences during my time, often getting to work on exciting new initiatives.  As part of a highly performing Agile team, I participated in the launch of many new features.

• Built customer webhook system to publish events
• Built Google GSuite integration focusing on usability for SMB customers
• Participated in multi-team refactor of Freshbooks core accounting journal ledger logic used by every customer on the platform
• Plan improvements to our front-end application as a member of our EmberJS Circle
• Build new Jenkins CICD tools as a member of the DevOps “tiger” team
• Member of Inclusivity Circle, our DEI committee

Beanfield MetroConnect

Software Developer

April 2012 — December 2015

I was part of a small team of developers building Beanfield’s in-house ERP, network provisioning, and billing tools. These supported the sales, network operations and customer management teams for Toronto’s fastest-growing indie fibre ISP.

• Build features for network provisioning, sales and CRM tools using Python Flask/Pyramid
• Architect customer WiFi settings portal for Beanfield’s launch of Toronto’s first fiber-to-the-home internet service
• Built firmware management tools for fibre modems
• Train and mentor junior developers