Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Jan 2022 – Jun 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Oct 2021 – Jan 2022 · 3 mos

• · Led development of a team of 3 to rewrite of a workflow engine used to coordinate what screens are displayed to customers
• · Defined strategy for a decompose-the-monolith team to execute on, several CashApp teams were able to build outside our monolith as a result of the work taken on
• · Led CashApp-side technical development of Square Loyalty <-> CashApp initial integration
• · Attend CashApp’s postmortems as a member of the incident review group to find systemic issues and facilitate high quality root cause analyses

Oct 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs

Jul 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

May 2016 – Apr 2017 · 11 mos · Toronto, Ontario

• · Improved email analytics by creating a microservice with Scala and Akka to serve an email tracking image that recorded how long an email was read
• · Developed Spark application to download email links and run machine learning algorithms on the content to provide insights to users
• · Lead transition away from Arquillian testing framework to API tests with JUnit

Aug 2015 – Apr 2016 · 8 mos · Toronto, Ontario

• » Setup parallel program to find/download/process PDF documents from water utility websites
• » Changed web scraping tech stack and saved 50% of monthly server bill while improving performance
• » Wrote classifier for PDF files found on municipal websites, achieved an accuracy of 79%

Jan 2015 – May 2015 · 4 mos · Waterloo

• » Worked in 2 week sprints to create 7 functional web and mobile prototypes
• » Performed research to identify key problems customers face and provided functioning prototypes to demonstrate solutions

Oct 2014 – Nov 2014 · 1 mo

• » Implemented WYSIWYG form creation tool
• » Found and removed security bugs
• » Collaborated to improve program design

Aug 2014 – Sep 2014 · 1 mo · Remote

• » Developed website functionality from design spec
• » Added share functionality to the website (Facebook, Twitter)
• » Created dynamic sharable images with ImageMagick

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos

• » Created data parsing tools with Python to extract, transform and load over 15 gigabytes of data into a PostgreSQL database
• » Developed foundation for a customer facing dashboard using Django and google graph API to visualize petroleum production data
• » Collaborated with project manager and designer to launch the company's first sofware product

Nov 2013 – Aug 2014 · 9 mos

• » Extended functionality of existing API
• » Created 5 JavaScript widgets for a modular site that interfaces with a web API
• » Updated and wrote over 50 tests for consumer facing site
• » Created API Client in PHP to interact with XML & JSON based API with error handling