Resume

Summary

Product-minded engineering generalist with years of experience in various capacities – technical leadership, people, process & project management, hands-on software development
Extensive experience leading teams and executing complex, open-ended projects in a startup and corporate environments

Work Experience

Drop Technologies Inc

Senior Engineering Manager

'22 – present

Managed 2 high performing, full-stack product engineering teams and their roadmaps

Engineering Manager

Core Team, '19 – '22

Managed a full stack product engineering team responsible for the mobile app’s core user experience; successfully scaled it into 2 distinct teams, each with their own areas of focus
Worked with company leadership on translating company vision into objectives and key results
Worked closely with product managers, engineers, data scientists, designers and cross functional business teams on identifying, prioritizing and executing impactful projects
Provided technical leadership to the wider Drop engineering team, led several high impact, cross-team technical efforts

App Performance optimizations: Led a project that resulted in a drastic improvement to app responsiveness on the iOS & Android (react native) apps
CodePull: Built an internal system that allows anyone at Drop to load up app changes from a pull request on their device by simply clicking an automatically generated link
Test tooling: Built an internal framework that enables engineers to easily write comprehensive app integration tests leveraging realistic mock data

Engineering Lead

Growth Team, '18 – '19

Led a full stack engineering team of 4 individuals focused on product goals including user acquisition, engagement and retention
Led tooling, process and other infrastructure initiatives focused on increasing developer happiness, productivity and code quality

Typescript: made the case for, got buy-in and spearheaded migration; built internal tooling to track its adoption and assist with incremental migration; defined best practices and internal constructs to effectively write typesafe code
Continuous Deployment: built tooling to continuously deploy merged app code to a staging environment
Static code analysis: built internal rules for eslint & rubocop; rules rely on AST analysis to flag certain types of problematic code

Software Engineer

Drop Engineering Team, '18

Worked as one of the main primarily frontend-focused, full-stack software engineers building the Drop mobile app in react native + backend in ruby on rails
Built and owned several impactful product domains including in-app shopping, referral program, card linking, marketing comms infrastructure, search, rewards etc
Formalized and drove adoption of a regular app release process; also built tooling to enable anyone to quickly and safely release code

Deloitte

Senior Consultant

'17 – '18

Led a project to enhance security across 4 ecommerce stores owned by the retailer

Led a project to build an in-store mobile scan and checkout experience
Led building a user facing Point of Sale system for checkouts as well as the APIs integrating with the backend system

Consultant

'16 – '17

Frontend solution engineer on a net new web presence for Canada’s largest loyalty program

Business Technology Analyst

'15 – '16

Worked on solutions architecture team on a net new, multi-phased Direct to Consumer insurance program
Worked across technical teams to ensure systems being built were inter- operable, followed development best practices and met security & performance requirements

Personal Projects

A react native app that allows users to set a geographic area to watch for and get notified when cars from a car share service are available to rent
Powered by a backend server running in koa & prisma ORM for postgres

A web app that shows Toronto Transit Commission vehicles on a map in (almost) real time

A web-app pong game where the computer learns to play pong over time by playing against a human