Experience

Sardine

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Toronto, Ontario, Canada



Yelp

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Lead

  • May 2021 - Aug 2022

• Software Engineer

  • Sep 2017 - May 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area



The University of British Columbia

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2015 - Apr 2016

  Introductory Psychology - Vantage College Led weekly instructional seminars for international students learning psychology. In addition to teaching course content I helped students with improving their presentation and writing skills.



McMaster University

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 2013 - Apr 2015

  Introductory Psychology - Led groups of students (~20/class; 200 Total) through weekly tutorial sessions. - Reviewed course material, worked through practice problems, and facilitated discussion. - Monitored online discussion boards and interacted one-on-one with students through office hours. - McMaster TED-Ed 2013 “Best talk” Award.

• Auditory Neurophysiology - Undergraduate Researcher

  • May 2013 - Apr 2015

  McMaster Batlab - Studied neural mechanisms of temporal processing in the auditory midbrain of Big Brown Bats. - Tested whether modulating sound frequency affects duration tuning ability in mid-brain neurons

• Introductory Psychology - Course Developer

  • May 2014 - Dec 2014

  Introductory Psychology I was hired for a summer to improve a large introductory psychology course (~2500 students each year) and reviewed literature with a focus on evidence-based assessment techniques that harness theories of learning and memory. I used this knowledge to create test questions and lesson plans that were implemented in the course the following year.

• Advanced Labratory Project - Cognition and Education

  • Sep 2013 - Apr 2014

  Applied Cognition in Education Lab - Designed and implemented a pedagogical experiment. - Investigated whether reducing the fluency (ease of processing) of study passages improves the recall of key ideas on a subsequent test.

• Undergraduate Researcher - Wound Healing

  • May 2013 - Aug 2013

  McMaster Batlab Compared healing rates of injuries near vascular versus non-vascular regions in bat wing membranes.

• Course Developer - Applied Educational Psychology

  • Jan 2013 - Apr 2013

  Reformatted the curriculum for a seminar class designed to teach instructional skills and pedagogy.



Decision Resources Group, part of Clarivate

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Analyst

  • May 2012 - Aug 2012

  Collected data for the “US Anesthesia Devices 2012” report by interviewing industry experts and mining company publications and databases. Forecasted market behavior for Anesthesia-related medical devices in Excel.



City of Toronto

• Canada
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Karate Instructor

  • Sep 2009 - May 2011

  Led classes and prepared curricula for students aged 3-6, 7-12 for Toronto Parks and Recreation.