Anthony Soo Kaim
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Nick Jones
I have the pleasure of working with Anthony at Trustflight. He is one of those great Dev Team Leads and technical experts that you want to work with on a project. Calm, focused, solution focused, detail oriented, a leader, team manager, mentor/coach and just all around great/positive person to work with. As a Product Manager having Anthony on a project team gives you a strong sense of confidence in how the Dev team is being lead and the quality of solution being developed. I would highly recommend Anthony to anyone as an employee or coworker.
James Ingham
Anthony is one of the most uniquely gifted leaders I have had the pleasure of working with in my 25+ years. Anthony adds value to anything he touches every day. From the seemingly most mundane and simple task to huge endeavors, he owns them all. His intense desire to learn and improve is also shared with the people he interacts with. He unselfishly shares he expertise, time and knowledge. He was my go-to person for over 6 years. I hope our paths cross again soon!
Nick Jones
I have the pleasure of working with Anthony at Trustflight. He is one of those great Dev Team Leads and technical experts that you want to work with on a project. Calm, focused, solution focused, detail oriented, a leader, team manager, mentor/coach and just all around great/positive person to work with. As a Product Manager having Anthony on a project team gives you a strong sense of confidence in how the Dev team is being lead and the quality of solution being developed. I would highly recommend Anthony to anyone as an employee or coworker.
James Ingham
Anthony is one of the most uniquely gifted leaders I have had the pleasure of working with in my 25+ years. Anthony adds value to anything he touches every day. From the seemingly most mundane and simple task to huge endeavors, he owns them all. His intense desire to learn and improve is also shared with the people he interacts with. He unselfishly shares he expertise, time and knowledge. He was my go-to person for over 6 years. I hope our paths cross again soon!
Nick Jones
I have the pleasure of working with Anthony at Trustflight. He is one of those great Dev Team Leads and technical experts that you want to work with on a project. Calm, focused, solution focused, detail oriented, a leader, team manager, mentor/coach and just all around great/positive person to work with. As a Product Manager having Anthony on a project team gives you a strong sense of confidence in how the Dev team is being lead and the quality of solution being developed. I would highly recommend Anthony to anyone as an employee or coworker.
James Ingham
Anthony is one of the most uniquely gifted leaders I have had the pleasure of working with in my 25+ years. Anthony adds value to anything he touches every day. From the seemingly most mundane and simple task to huge endeavors, he owns them all. His intense desire to learn and improve is also shared with the people he interacts with. He unselfishly shares he expertise, time and knowledge. He was my go-to person for over 6 years. I hope our paths cross again soon!
Nick Jones
I have the pleasure of working with Anthony at Trustflight. He is one of those great Dev Team Leads and technical experts that you want to work with on a project. Calm, focused, solution focused, detail oriented, a leader, team manager, mentor/coach and just all around great/positive person to work with. As a Product Manager having Anthony on a project team gives you a strong sense of confidence in how the Dev team is being lead and the quality of solution being developed. I would highly recommend Anthony to anyone as an employee or coworker.
James Ingham
Anthony is one of the most uniquely gifted leaders I have had the pleasure of working with in my 25+ years. Anthony adds value to anything he touches every day. From the seemingly most mundane and simple task to huge endeavors, he owns them all. His intense desire to learn and improve is also shared with the people he interacts with. He unselfishly shares he expertise, time and knowledge. He was my go-to person for over 6 years. I hope our paths cross again soon!
Credentials
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Certified SAFe Agilist
Scaled Agile, Inc.May, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
Certified ScrumMaster
Scrum AllianceJan, 2007- Nov, 2024
Experience
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TrustFlight
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United Kingdom
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Airlines and Aviation
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Lead & Line Manager
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Feb 2022 - Present
As Technical Lead and Line Manager, reporting to the CTO, I am responsible for leading the Vancouver Engineering site comprised of two teams, building one of the company’s most promising new SaaS products and internal shared services including a workflow platform and external system integrations. Key achievements: - Managed growth and performance of 7 Software Engineers - Transitioned team from front-end / back-end engineer split to full-stack engineers - Built high performing team starting with two engineers and growing to seven over the course of seven months - Successfully lead the implementation and delivery of B2B SaaS application into production with a growing number of live customers - Advocated for and introduced best-in-company test automation strategy to improve quality and productivity - Designed and implemented proof-of-concept blockchain smart contract using Hyperledger Fabric Technologies used: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Node.js, TypeScript, React, GitLab, Hyperledger Fabric Show less
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Boeing
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United States
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Aviation & Aerospace
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer 5 / Principal Developer
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Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
As the most senior Software Engineer at Boeing's Vancouver site, I:- Set a high bar for software development excellence in quality, productivity, engagement, and relentless continuous improvement- Am a technical advisor to the Vancouver site leader- Shape and grow teams at the Boeing Vancouver site through aiding and advising in interviewing and hiring of talented software engineers (including Developers, SDETs, DevOps)- Accelerate growth of engineers through mentoring and coaching- Establish right-sized software development processes and engineering practices to ensure quality and productivity, including architecture of test automation strategies and frameworks and CI/CD pipelines- Assess troubled projects and identify pragmatic paths to success- Build collaborative, effective, and psychologically safe team cultures that are cohesive and aligned to business visionTechnologies used: Microsoft Azure, Java, Spring, Angular, REST, Postgres, GitLab CI Show less
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Software Engineer 4 / Principal Developer
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Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
As Technical Lead / Principal Developer I am responsible for technical leadership and consulting on several projects with teams ranging in size from 4 to 25 technical staff. I am ultimately responsible for balancing product needs with engineering needs and ensuring the delivery of high quality software on time.Key achievements:- Transformed an underdelivering team (slow velocity, low quality) into a self-managed, independent team with a reputation for meeting or exceeding expectations, delivering on schedule and with high quality- Architected and lead the implementation of reliable and dependable CI/CD pipelines- Architected and lead the implementation of a test automation strategy and framework - Drove the reorganization of ~20 person team into small focused teams with clear responsibility, authority, and accountability- Drove team towards continuous improvement mentality in agile best practices- Lead team to deliver Boeing Developer Tools (developer.boeing.com) from conception into productionTechnologies used: AWS API Gateway/Lambda/Elastic Beanstalk/DynamoDB, 3Scale, Azure API Management/Web App/Functions/Service Bus/DocumentDB, Java, Spring Core, JAX-RS (Jersey), Swagger, MyBatis, HK2, Jackson, JSON, MS SQL Server, JUnit, Mockito, Jenkins, Maven, SoapUI, Postman, Ansible, Python, NodeJS. Show less
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Software Developer 3 / Technical Lead
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Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
Lead a team of up to 14 members (including developers, testers, PO) as a Scrum Master and Technical Lead to build out Boeing's in-house enterprise cloud PaaS solution (built on top of Amazon AWS and S3) designed to unify disparate data and tooling. Recognized as a key leader in helping to transform a chaotic, mismanaged organization into a much more well-oiled, predictable, open and collaborative team capable of meeting commitments: delivering high quality software on time and on budget.Lead the transformation and re-architecture of a fragile, complex, and inflexible CI/CD pipeline into a simpler, more stable and more configurable design.Technologies used: Java, WSO2 Stratos, AWS, JSF, PrimeFaces, BPEL, SOAP, REST, Spring MVC, Hibernate, CouchDB, ELK, Selenium, MySQL, JSON. Show less
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Software Developer 2 / Technical Lead
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Oct 2012 - Dec 2013
Successfully lead a team of three developers to implement and maintain report capabilities of a complex supplier quality management system. Worked directly with internal client to design and develop new functionality. In addition to normal development tasks, also responsible for: interviewing team member candidates, on-boarding, mentoring, high and low level estimation, task management, code review, providing technical guidance, and coordination with other teams.Technologies used: Flex/ActionScript, Java, BIRT, Hibernate, Oracle Database. Show less
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Elastic Path
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Canada
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Jun 2011 - Sep 2012
Full stack Java software engineer, practice true and pure agile software development (Scrum), including pair programming, mandatory code reviews, test driven development, short iterations, and constant team introspection. As a developer on the product development team, I: - Developed a Java REST (level 3)-based eCommerce API (JAX-RS/OSGI). - Performance analysis and tuning of import/export tool - Implemented automated API integration tests (FitNesse/SLiM) As an engineer on a professional services engagement, I worked directly with client to design, estimate, schedule, and implement functionality of their web-based eCommerce solution (Spring/Hibernate) including integration with external services and payment gateways Technologies used: Java, Spring Framework, OpenJPA, Velocity, BIRT, JAX-RS, Apache Lucene/SOLR, JUnit, JMock, JSON, jQuery, BIRT, DWR, Maven, Ant, Oracle, MySQL, FitNess, SLiM, SVN, Git. Show less
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Diligent ACL Analytics
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Canada
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Software Development
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300 - 400 Employee
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Software Developer
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Mar 2007 - May 2011
Developed Java-based financial auditing software (full stack). Projects include: Client-server financial auditing tools (Eclipse RCP desktop client, EJB3 application server). Involved in all aspects of the system from GUI work, client-server communication, to database design. Collaborated with an external consulting team to build, from the ground up, a "continuous controls monitoring" web application (Spring) for a large client. This project won the 2009 BC Technology Industry Association’s (BCTIA) Technology Impact Award for “best application of technology.” Technologies used: Java, Spring, EJB3, JPA, Eclipse RCP, BIRT, JSP, JavaScript, JMS. Show less
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Diligent ACL Analytics
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Canada
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Software Development
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300 - 400 Employee
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Software Developer (Co-op)
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May 2005 - Dec 2006
Developed Java-based financial auditing software (full stack). Technologies used: Java, Struts 1 MVC, JSP, JavaScript, JDBC, XML, XSLT, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9/10g, HSQL. Developed Java-based financial auditing software (full stack). Technologies used: Java, Struts 1 MVC, JSP, JavaScript, JDBC, XML, XSLT, SQL Server 2000, Oracle 9/10g, HSQL.
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Moneris
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Canada
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Web Developer (Co-op)
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May 2004 - Aug 2004
Basic maintenance on both internal and external-facing websites. Technologies used: ColdFusion, PHP. Basic maintenance on both internal and external-facing websites. Technologies used: ColdFusion, PHP.
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Education
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2001 - 2006
Faculty of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Major Computer Science, Minor Business Administration
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