Experience

Kira Talent

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  Having spent a few years in various Director roles at Kira, I've returned to my original passion: writing code full-time and solving technical problems. My time is currently split between DevOps and Software Dev.

• Director Of Engineering

  • Jan 2019 - May 2022

  Kira Talent is the world’s only holistic admissions solution designed for higher education. Founded in 2012, Kira transforms the admissions process by combining on-demand, timed video and timed written assessments with existing admissions requirements. Kira works with over 300 programs worldwide to build applicant-first assessments that identify and select their best-fit students.

• Security & Platform Lead

  • Oct 2018 - Jan 2019

  Day to day responsibilities involve:* Responding to and advising on security questionnaires and Privacy Risk Assessments, * GDPR-related inquiries, * Managing Kira's AWS-hosted infrastructure. * Implementing various policies and processes around the secure processing of data and Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

• Software Engineer

  • Jul 2016 - Jan 2019

  Engineering at Kira is a daily adventure - we wear many hats and move fast. We work closely with our clients to make data-driven and client-driven product decisions. From a technical point of view, we use modern frameworks across the board, build and maintain our infrastructure and work hard to balance technical ambition with technical feasibility.We're hiring! https://www.kiratalent.com/careers/



Uberflip

• Canada
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Architect

  • Dec 2015 - Aug 2016

  My new role at Uberflip requires that I have intimate knowledge of how our various systems work together and how they scale together. I'm responsible for making architectural decisions and advising our development team on various projects and features.I am also involved on the Operations team where I help with the management, configuration and scaling of our colocation-based infrastructure.Notable achievements to date:- Transitioning a 7+ year old codebase from SVN to Git and implementing a new development process/workflow- Planning the expansion of our staging environment to fully represent our production environment - full representation across server roles along with parity and cross-floor redundancy.

• Senior Developer

  • Aug 2014 - Dec 2015

  Dual role as a Senior Developer and Operations Engineer. Some of the large high-scale projects that I've led (planning and implementation):- ElasticSearch-backed Search engine- RabbitMQ cluster to process our various queue jobs- SSL enablement for our customers' custom domains- Laravel-based Service Oriented Architecture to break away from our monolithic 7+ year old codebaseMy role on the Operations Team has included configuring and setting up the servers required for some of the projects above as well as others. I've been part of the on-call rotation as well as the management of our physical infrastructure at our colocation space.



Yelp WiFi

• Canada
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Full Stack Developer

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2014

  Mainly responsible for our backend API. Handled some of the Operations work in evaluating new technologies and setting up environments. Created a system that showed, in real-time, customers entering and leaving locations with our access points, with over a million daily records being processed. Mainly responsible for our backend API. Handled some of the Operations work in evaluating new technologies and setting up environments. Created a system that showed, in real-time, customers entering and leaving locations with our access points, with over a million daily records being processed.



Casale Media

• System Engineer

  • Jul 2013 - Sep 2013



Sport Testing

• Spectator Sports

• Lead Developer

  • Sep 2012 - Jun 2013

  Sport testing software Sport testing software



School-Day Solutions Inc.

• Canada
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Developer

  • Jan 2012 - Jul 2012

  I build cool stuff. Period! The server is my canvas, the keyboard my brush... this is true art ! I build cool stuff. Period! The server is my canvas, the keyboard my brush... this is true art !



Trystingtrees

• Co-Founder

  • Aug 2011 - Jun 2012



Canadian Association of Physicists

• Web Developer

  • Jun 2011 - Jan 2012

  Maitain the CAP website and build various back-end applications to support their non-profit initiative. Maitain the CAP website and build various back-end applications to support their non-profit initiative.



TekCast Designs

• Founder & Lead Developer

  • Feb 2010 - 2012

  TekCast Designs is an up and coming web design and application development firm located in Ottawa. We pride ourselves on extending our services to small businesses and non profits in the Nation's Capital Region. We allow them to have a much needed presence on the web at a fraction of the price the big boys pay. Their needs are different...we offer different. TekCast Designs is an up and coming web design and application development firm located in Ottawa. We pride ourselves on extending our services to small businesses and non profits in the Nation's Capital Region. We allow them to have a much needed presence on the web at a fraction of the price the big boys pay. Their needs are different...we offer different.



Yostro

• Technology, Information and Internet

• Developer

  • Oct 2010 - May 2011

  Managing technical operations and overseeing product development. Application development. Managing technical operations and overseeing product development. Application development.



Zoidu

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Developer

  • Oct 2010 - May 2011

  Managing technical operations and overseeing product development. Application development Managing technical operations and overseeing product development. Application development



Real Programming 4 Kids

• Game Programming Instructor

  • Nov 2008 - Jan 2009