Roneel Achal
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John Molberg
Roneel is an innovator and visionary in the field of software engineering. Roneel was often the source of new ideas, new technology and new processes which pushed our software development team forward. Roneel believes education is a key facet of being a Professional Engineer and he is always looking to learn. Roneel was THE key person in pushing forward our adoption of Agile Software Development using Scrum and Extreme Programming. His push for excellence laid the groundwork for the products leading the company. He also has an innate ability to train new engineers and bring out the best in others.
John Molberg
Roneel is an innovator and visionary in the field of software engineering. Roneel was often the source of new ideas, new technology and new processes which pushed our software development team forward. Roneel believes education is a key facet of being a Professional Engineer and he is always looking to learn. Roneel was THE key person in pushing forward our adoption of Agile Software Development using Scrum and Extreme Programming. His push for excellence laid the groundwork for the products leading the company. He also has an innate ability to train new engineers and bring out the best in others.
John Molberg
Roneel is an innovator and visionary in the field of software engineering. Roneel was often the source of new ideas, new technology and new processes which pushed our software development team forward. Roneel believes education is a key facet of being a Professional Engineer and he is always looking to learn. Roneel was THE key person in pushing forward our adoption of Agile Software Development using Scrum and Extreme Programming. His push for excellence laid the groundwork for the products leading the company. He also has an innate ability to train new engineers and bring out the best in others.
John Molberg
Roneel is an innovator and visionary in the field of software engineering. Roneel was often the source of new ideas, new technology and new processes which pushed our software development team forward. Roneel believes education is a key facet of being a Professional Engineer and he is always looking to learn. Roneel was THE key person in pushing forward our adoption of Agile Software Development using Scrum and Extreme Programming. His push for excellence laid the groundwork for the products leading the company. He also has an innate ability to train new engineers and bring out the best in others.
Credentials
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Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)
The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)Jun, 2006- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Tacteris
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Canada
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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VP Engineering
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Jan 2014 - Present
• Developed military operational planning software using many software visualization algorithms (C++, Qt). • Developed a GIS platform with a 3D virtual globe as an integral component of the operational planning software (C++, OpenGL). • Implemented big-data analytics and visualization as part of a contract for a rail company using AWS Lambda applications (Python), backend ECS tasks (ASP.NET Core) and frontend static content (Angular). • Implemented geospatial visualization as part of a contract for a resource request/fulfillment system for the Canadian government (Vue.js, AWS Amplify). • Implemented and Trained Deep Neural Network to perform super-resolution on geospatial data. • Implemented LIDAR data backend-processing algorithms as part of a contract for a company specializing in scans for Oil & Gas pipelines (Python, C++). • Created a Big Data pipeline for processing several terabytes of geospatial data (Apache Beam, Java, and Google Cloud Dataflow). • Participated in technological migration of backend technology for web app (from AWS Amplify to Hasura with C#). • Conducted hiring of software engineers including development of job advertisement, resume screening, phone screening and interviewing. • Supervised multiple teams of developers on multiple products simultaneously with project budgets of ~$1M. • Coordinated with business development to explore business opportunities by attending trade shows and customizing software to support marketing efforts. Show less
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Lockheed Martin
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineering Associate Manager
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Jan 2013 - Nov 2013
• Managed software development team of 9 individuals to complete unmanned vehicle control station software projects with ~$500K budgets. • Delivered software products to customers within scope, budget and schedule constraints with zero known defects. • Investigated, integrated and rolled-out technical improvements and innovations to business unit (new build system, unit testing framework enhancements) on own initiative. • Developed complex photogrammetry feature while leveraging cutting edge computer vision algorithms. Show less
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CDL Systems Ltd.
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Canada
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jun 2006 - Dec 2012
• Managed software development team of 4 to 10 individuals to complete unmanned vehicle control station and sensor monitoring software with budgets ranging from $250K to $4M.• Tracked metrics, aided in proposal generation and managed risks on almost a dozen software projects over a period of 6 years.• Introduced Agile software development methodologies to the company including Scrum, XP and LeanSoftware Development.• Developed software testing strategy used as a model for other teams within the organization.• Developed and supervised the development of complex software features including 3D mapping technology, autopilot control algorithms, GPU-accelerated computational algorithms, and network data dissemination features.• Designed user interfaces for unmanned systems software that received very positive feedback from end users and that resulted in increased software license sales.• Participated in software engineer hiring process by defining interview process, screening resumes, conducting interviews and making hiring recommendations to senior management.• Initiated, developed and supervised development of software development kit used by all other software development teams in the company on my own initiative.• Wrote and helped to refine company-wide C++ coding standard. Show less
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Software Developer
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Jan 2002 - May 2006
• Designed, developed and maintained C++ applications to control unmanned aerial vehicles.• Created software testing applications and assisted with software integration.• Documented software applications and systems.
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Nortel Networks
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Development Intern
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May 1999 - Aug 2000
• Designed and developed internal Intranet applications supporting hundreds of users. • Leveraged Java Servlet and PERL CGI technologies to create new applications and maintain legacy applications. • Provided direct technical support to product users. • Designed and developed internal Intranet applications supporting hundreds of users. • Leveraged Java Servlet and PERL CGI technologies to create new applications and maintain legacy applications. • Provided direct technical support to product users.
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Education
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1996 - 2001
The University of Calgary
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
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