Experience

SyncWith
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Founder

  • Jan 2021 - Present


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• Canada
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Delightfully Well-Rounded Software Guy

  • Dec 2011 - Nov 2020

  Petabyte-scale data analysis and warehousing. Ad operations with exposure to the major players, including AppNexus, OpenX, FBX, Google Ad Exchange and AdSense and PubMatic. Extensive API integrations with DFP (in Clojure) and AppNexus (in Scala) for retargeting, reporting and optimizing revenue. High-performance algorithmic shopping platform for multiple verticals built in Scala and Python on the Lift framework, backed by Postgres, redis and ElasticSearch datastores. Web crawling, natural language processing and semantic analysis to support an in-house ad platform. Show less



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• SDE II

  • Jun 2008 - Nov 2010

  Worked on the server and client SKUs of Windows to ship Microsoft's identity management, single sign-on and federation product suite: Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, the Windows Identity Framework and CardSpace. I focused primarily on protocol correctness for SOAP and REST-based authenication protocols (SAML, OpenID, WS-Federation, WS-Trust) and ensured our products achieved certification as being interoperable with other vendors. Also contributed to threat modelling, testing and assisting customers and vendors via phone, e-mail and in-person. Show less



OARBS Software Corporation

• Co-founder

  • 2005 - 2008

  Software consulting and resource management line-of-business software company; clients included one of the largest school boards in Canada. Software consulting and resource management line-of-business software company; clients included one of the largest school boards in Canada.



Arius Software

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Java Developer Intern

  • May 2004 - Apr 2005

  Extended Java-based application development framework and added features to a line-of-business application for the financial industry. Extended Java-based application development framework and added features to a line-of-business application for the financial industry.