Experience

SpotHero

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Data Engineer

  • Jan 2023 - 1 year



NowFantasy

• Canada
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Co-Founder

  • Jan 2020 - 4 years

  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada • Founded a company focused on improving digital fan engagement and experiences for sport leagues and teams through fantasy games, mobile and web applications. • Led a team of developers in launching CEBL Mobile for the Canadian Elite Basketball League; an Android and iOS app that peaked at #9 for sports in the App Store.



ENJINE

• Canada
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Engineering

  • Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada • Responsible for leading a team of Data Engineers and driving Engineering growth. • Scaled the data platform to hundreds of data pipelines that process tens of terabytes of data on a daily basis. • Initiated the shift to incremental processing, reducing job execution time from hours to minutes and resulting in compute savings of ~$30,000. • Developed the framework required to create alternative ML investment strategies. • Reduced data issues by 90% through in-depth data quality… Show more • Responsible for leading a team of Data Engineers and driving Engineering growth. • Scaled the data platform to hundreds of data pipelines that process tens of terabytes of data on a daily basis. • Initiated the shift to incremental processing, reducing job execution time from hours to minutes and resulting in compute savings of ~$30,000. • Developed the framework required to create alternative ML investment strategies. • Reduced data issues by 90% through in-depth data quality checks that immediately notify the team when deviations appear in the data.

• Data Engineer

  • Sep 2019 - Jan 2021

  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada • Developed the data platform that supports ENJINE’s ML investment algorithms. • Reduced job execution time from days to hours by changing the processing engine from Python multiprocessing to Spark, resulting in ~$80,000 of compute savings. • Designed a scalable data warehouse that replaced the inefficient Postgres implementation.



Shopify

• Canada
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Platform Engineer

  • Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Responsible for delivering new features to the data modelling platform that powers analytics and machine learning across Shopify. • Developed key components in a time sensitive project that required the data platform be migrated to a multi-regional system in order to comply with GDPR regulations. • Architected and built tools to autonomously detect and suspend failing Spark jobs.



MoneyGeek

• Technology, Information and Internet

• Full Stack Developer

  • May 2018 - Dec 2018

  London, Ontario, Canada • Part of a team developing an investment portfolio web application. • Developed a follow portfolio feature similar to Twitter followers. • Implemented a CI/CD pipeline to deploy code to staging and production environments.



London Life

• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • May 2018 - Aug 2018

  London, Ontario, Canada • Part of a team developing REST and GraphQL APIs. • Developed a web application to replace the existing expense reporting solution.



Golf Canada

• Canada
• Spectator Sports
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Information Technology Intern

  • Apr 2017 - Aug 2017

  Oakville, Ontario, Canada • Managed Windows Servers and maintained Golf Canada websites. • Developed an inventory management system to detect and alert when inventory ran low.