Oct 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Leading technology strategy and execution for high-growth portfolio companies
• Strategic Leadership: Advise C-suite and boards on technology roadmaps, M&A technical due diligence, and digital transformation initiatives across 8+ portfolio companies
• Operational Excellence: Implemented enterprise-grade DevOps practices reducing deployment times by 40% while achieving 99.9% uptime across critical customer-facing systems
• Financial Impact: Delivered $500K+ annual cost optimizations through FinOps implementations and infrastructure rightsizing initiatives
• Compliance & Security: Established SOC 2 and PCI DSS frameworks reducing audit preparation time by 60% and enabling enterprise customer acquisition
• Technology Innovation: Designed Kubernetes-based deployment architectures and multi-cloud strategies supporting rapid business scaling

Jan 2023 – Oct 2023 · 9 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• Led 40-person engineering organization supporting FinTech growth and Mastercard partnership
• Organizational Leadership: Managed $8M engineering budget while scaling team from 25 to 44 professionals across DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and Infrastructure functions
• Strategic Execution: Delivered next-generation platform architecture enabling Mastercard partnership and supporting projected 40% revenue growth
• Operational Transformation: Restructured DevOps/SRE organization improving system reliability and reducing customer-impacting incidents by 50%
• Cost Management: Achieved 13% AWS cost reduction ($400K annually) through strategic resource optimization while maintaining performance standards
• Enterprise Operations: Redefined IT support structure for 200-person call center, ensuring 99.8% operational uptime during peak customer interactions
• Vendor Strategy: Negotiated and managed $2M+ in vendor relationships, optimizing contracts for cost-effectiveness and strategic alignment

Aug 2022 – Oct 2022 · 2 mos · Remote

• Consulted for software engineering teams on architectural best practices and nonfunctional requirements.
• Achieved an 8% reduction in costs through effective financial management and budgeting.
• Championed and enforced agile and DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, QA, Security, and Automation.
• Led the management of AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring scalability and secure environments.
• Tracked Objectives and Key Results (OKR) to maintain a 99.99% uptime, monitoring related KPIs for continuous improvement.
• Advocated and introduced security best practices, ensuring compliance with ISO-27001 standards.

Nov 2017 – Aug 2022 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Financial management and budgeting
• Built and led teams of Software Engineers, DevOps specialists, Compliance experts, Security professionals, and IT specialists, scaling to 15+ members.
• Architected and executed the Covid-19 vaccination project, achieving 1000 TPS and contributing to public health initiatives.
• Expanded network and security infrastructure, supporting 15+ clients and demonstrating scalability.
• Directed a multi-cloud initiative on Azure, GCP, and AWS, enhancing organizational flexibility.
• Attained SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI compliance, with a plan for ISO-27001 certification.
• Implemented financial management and budgeting strategies for optimal resource allocation.
• Collaborated to achieve multiple deployments per day, maintaining a 99.99% availability.

Feb 2017 – Nov 2017 · 9 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Introduced security best practices, achieving ISO-27001 compliance and ensuring a secure operational environment.
• Led agile and DevOps best practices, including CI/CD, QA, addressing technical debt, and automation.
• Managed AWS-based infrastructure, optimizing resource allocation and ensuring financial efficiency.
• Successfully migrated from Cloud 66 to DC/OS, improving scalability and efficiency.
• Served as a subject matter expert in centralized logging and monitoring.
• Introduced metrics and monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana) for enhanced performance tracking.

May 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Formed and managed DevOps practice teams
• Worked with director of R&D set yearly goals and KPIs for DevOps practice
• Spearheaded and executed transition to continuous delivery on both technology and culture
• Setup and spearheaded Git and GitHub.com adoption and education
• Introduced and coded configuration management and infrastructure as code using Ansible
• Headed move from on-premise build and deploy pipeline to Amazon Web Services
• Consulted on architectural design for non-functional requirements

Mar 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Researched and developed a central logging solution improving developer efficiency by 80% using FluentD, Kibana and ElasticSearch
• Researched and developed solutions in minimizing server downtime by writing custom scripts to monitor and fix issues as they arose. Improving SLA by one extra 9
• Researched and developed containerization technology using Docker, Mesos, cAdvisor including implementing a test cluster and with containerized applications to gauge feasibility
• Factored and improved Ansible code base to better implement infrastructure as code reducing risk and improving business continuity by 25%
• Implemented scripts to perform maintenance tasks on AWS RDS and ElasticSearch clusters minimizing potential data loss and limiting risk to a 20 minute window from a 24 hour window
• Functioned as a consultant to other teams to improve code quality and non functional specification such as rate limiting, capacity planning, graceful failure etc
• Conducted regular workshops to help educate developers about infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and processes

Feb 2012 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Architectural understanding of requirements to develop scalable web applications in a clustered, load-balanced environment with functionally independent, asynchronous processing of events and data
• Creating new software modules for text message service (SMS) aggregation gateways, translating third party API to in-house business logic increasing operational diversity (~3M / day)
• Writing inbound event controllers to parse a diverse array of HTTP POST/GET for variables in XML, CSV, and JSON to be synchronized with outbound API calls (by aggregation gateways) ( ~3M hits /day)
• Developing interfaces to payment gateways for 'pay on my phone bill' services making SOAP 1.1, 1.2, XML and JSON API calls expanding revenue stream
• Authoring complex SQL queries to generate reports and investigate operational behaviour of in-house enterprise level (150+ tables), Zend Framework based software detecting potential problems
• Designed, developed, and deployed a FSM to automate (cron) download, extraction, validation, and processing carrier mandated actions, eliminating one man hour a day
• Designed, developed, and deployed custom Munin plugin to monitor key metrics of transactional operations of software, aggregating data from MySQL and MongoDB
• Performed migration of production servers. Installation, configuration and testing of the full solution stack on RHEL 6.3 including: LAMP, RabbitMQ, Memcached, Munin and MongoDB
• Mentor team members on use and best practices