Experience

Visier Inc.

• Canada
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Principal Software Developer

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  After many years at management roles, I switched to a technical hands-on role with primary focus on product and infrastructure security and new analytic applications. Main achievements include • Led a mission to create a new analytic application on business data • Led a mission to tighten data egress paths in our cloud infrastructure • Designed and implemented low touch customer data onboarding framework • Designed and implemented multiple analytic and security features • Integration with 3rd party data extraction platforms Show less

• Senior Director Of Engineering

  • Sep 2018 - Feb 2021

  Led multiple teams with main focus on site reliability engineering and information security. Main achievements include • Expanded infrastructure into AWS while continuing to operate in on-premise data centres • Infrastructure as code for managing AWS infrastructure • SLO of 99.9% availability of Visier applications and consistently meeting the objective • Management of OPEX and CAPEX budgets • Managed product and infrastructure security as well as corporate information security, and established programs on incident response, business continuity and user training • Threat modelling in all scrum teams in R&D • Worked closely with Customer Success, GRC, privacy groups for support and established policies and standards • Laid the foundation for immutable infrastructure • Coached and helped team members grow their careers Show less

• Director of Engineering

  • Jan 2011 - Sep 2018

  As a founding member of Visier, the beginning years were all about wearing multiple hats and doing everything necessary for rapid growth of the business. We grew from 10+ people to 500+ in a short period of time. I led multiple teams with main focus on chart rendering and web components, data onboarding and data processing, hosting infrastructure, release management, security and site reliability engineering. Main highlights are: • Charting library that powers Visier's analytics solution • Failover mechanism for critical components in all our data centres with the SLO of 99.9% availability for Visier Workforce Analytics application • Detailed monitoring of infrastructure and application with pivot to observability • Automate infrastructure management with configuration management tools • Streamlined release and deployment processes • Introduction of DevOps culture to R&D • SOC 2 Type 2 certification • Enhanced infrastructure security with regular internal and external penetration testing • Designed and implemented hybrid data centres and AWS infrastructure • Administration and configuration of Visier Workforce Analytics solution • Application security • ETL framework • Data processing and data management • Release management • Coached and helped team members grow their careers Show less



SAP

• Germany
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Developer 2

  • Apr 2010 - Jan 2011

  • Implemented Crystal Reports HTML rendering engine inside Report Application Server for efficient processing.• Took on the role of SAP Agile trainer of Crystal Reports division and gave training to different teams.• Implemented major Crystal Reports features including smart database field mappings and searching, and Crystal Reports plugin for BusinessObjects Enterprise.

• Development Team Lead

  • Apr 2007 - Apr 2010

  • Managed a team of developers.• Led the team through successful redesign and rewrite of Crystal Reports HTML viewer to be fully AJAX-based while maintaining compatibility as an embedded component in existing web applications.• Worked closely with global teams in Shanghai, Paris and Walldorf on features with cross-team dependency.• Development lead of a major Crystal Reports project. Duties included working with team leads and managers across development centres to plan project timelines, keeping track of progress, resolving inter-team dependency issues, and managing risks.• Build master of Crystal Reports division. Duties included working with global teams to ensure stable builds. Show less

• Software Developer

  • Jun 2004 - Mar 2007

  • Lead developer of BusinessObjects Crystal Reports Explorer product. Worked closely with product managers and QA in each release of the product.• Developed and maintained Crystal Reports Viewer SDK. The SDK came in Java, COM, .NET and ActiveX versions and was used by developers to embed the viewer in various web and native applications.• Developed and maintained features on the parameter engine of Crystal Reports that generates and processes user inputs required for report generation.• Developed and maintained BusinessObjects InfoView, the main web application for BusinessObjects Enterprise. Show less



Capraro Technologies Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Analyst

  • Jun 2002 - Apr 2004

  • Designed and developed Multiple Listing System used by local real estate associations. • Developed and maintained web applications using the LAMP bundle, Java, HTML, JavaScript and CSS. • Developed and maintained Capraro Technologies' proprietary template-based web application framework that enables fast and easy development of custom applications. • Developed an intelligent proxy for mobile users that optimizes image quality and document layouts depending on the bandwidth and latency of connection. • Administered Linux systems and MySQL databases. Show less



The Research Foundation for SUNY

• United States
• Education Management
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Oct 2001 - May 2002

  • Developed a web crawler and an analysis tool for extracting information from large amount of unstructured crawled data. • Developed a web crawler and an analysis tool for extracting information from large amount of unstructured crawled data.