Experience

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  Transit

  • Canada
  • Software Development
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Data Infrastructure Lead

    • Mar 2022 - Present

  • Infrastructure Lead

    • Jan 2020 - Mar 2022

  • Software Developer

    • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020

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  AmpMe

  • Montreal, Canada Area

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
    • Montreal, Canada Area

    At AmpMe I'm making mobile device notifications more reliable and performant, integrating with Apple and Google's app payments backends, and introducing technologies like TypeScript and Google's Cloud Build to stabilize and accelerate development of backend services.

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  Hopper

  • Canada
  • Technology, Information and Internet
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Software Engineering Manager and Tech Lead

    • Jan 2017 - Jun 2018

    As software engineering manager at Hopper, I've extended and codified a software engineering hiring process including the incorporation of an automatically administered programming exercise which substantially increased the process's efficiency. I've extended offers and conducted salary negotiations for ten hires and trained five engineers in giving engineering interviews. As technical lead for the core product, I've continued to contribute independently by specifying and developing new functionality, and leading the technical investigations needed to stabilize a new product line.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Apr 2015 - Jan 2017

    As a senior software engineer at Hopper, I developed backend systems as well as native functionality of the iOS and Android Hopper apps. This included payment processing and UX for the first version of the iOS app to support booking airline tickets, a system for securely storing personal information, and the UX for filtered watches and shopping on both iOS and Android.

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  Meetup

  • New York

  • VP, Engineering

    • Oct 2009 - Mar 2015
    • New York

    I managed, hired for, and contributed directly to the Web, iOS, Android, Core (backend), and QA engineering teams at Meetup.

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  DailyCandy

  • New York

  • Web Application Programmer

    • Apr 2005 - Oct 2009
    • New York

    I contributed primarily to DailyCandy's Java backend systems. Projects included new web and email products, performance improments to email generation, and building a content management system that fit the editorial process of the company.

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  IgoUgo

  • New York

  • Web Application Programmer

    • Jul 2004 - Apr 2005
    • New York

    Contributed to the company’s ASP+SQL Server travel community site and developed a skiing community separate from, but based on main site.

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  Centre international d'études pédagogiques (CIEP)

  • Tarbes Area, France

  • English Teaching Assistant

    • Oct 2003 - Jun 2004
    • Tarbes Area, France

    I taught English in primary schools to students through the CIEP’s assistantship program.

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  IBM Global Services

  • Whippany, NY

  • Web Application Programmer

    • Jun 2001 - Aug 2003
    • Whippany, NY

    I worked on a Documentum-based content management system here, after the team I was on at Lucent was outsourced to IBM.

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  Lucent Technologies

  • Parsippany, NY

  • Web Application Programmer

    • Jun 2000 - Jun 2001
    • Parsippany, NY

    In this first job after college, I wrote components for the online sales site, including user profile pages and a software bridge to the corporate directory.