Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

• Making small investments in seed/pre-seed startups, mostly in Canada.

Aug 2015 – Nov 2024 · 9 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco, CA

• 2023 - 2024: GM, Syntax.fm
• 2021 - 2023: VP Emerging Technology (Session Replay, Profiling)
• 2017 - 2021: VP Engineering
• 2016 - 2017: Head of Product Engineering
• 2015 - 2016: Sr. Software Engineer

Jun 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr · Mountain View, CA

• At Shape Security, I helped build the ShapeShifter, a next-generation "botwall" for deflecting malicious web automation. In my role I was responsible for Shape's injected JavaScript telemetry and improving the botwall's compatibility with evolving web development patterns. Shape Security was acquired in 2020 by F5 Networks for $1 billion.

Apr 2010 – May 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco, CA

• I joined Disqus (YC 07) as employee #10 and developed its embedded commenting platform, which reached over 2 billion monthly unique visitors and powered communities on major media properties including CNN, IGN, Bloomberg, and NPR. By 2014, I led as many as 8 front-end engineers across multiple delivery teams. Disqus was acquired in 2017 by Zeta Global for $90mm.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Guestlist.co is a WYSIWYG event website builder with ticket disbursement and payment processing, which I co-founded part time with 2 partners back in 2008. Besides co-developing the Ruby server code and JavaScript UI, I also operated as the public face of the company at meetups, in written blog posts, etc.
• Guestlist processed millions of dollars in ticket sales since launching in 2009 and has operated for 15 years and counting.

Apr 2007 – Mar 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• I joined FreshBooks as employee #7 when we were still operating out of the CEO's basement. Over 3 years I built many of FreshBooks' user-facing product features, designed and implemented their public developer API, and brought modern development practices and patterns to a legacy codebase.

Jul 2006 – Mar 2007 · 8 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• Ryatta Group is a Toronto-based technology consulting firm. Embedded with the Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts web team, I built and maintained web software that powered their gift card ecommerce store, guest profile database, and timeshare allocation portal.

May 2004 – Aug 2005 · 1 yr 3 mos · Toronto, Canada Area

• OpenGL ES graphics driver development for Epson's mobile and embedded devices using C/C++ and assembly. This was a 16-month internship as part of the University of Toronto’s PEY program.