About NTM

Hi, I'm Leona. I'm a fullstack/backend engineer. Net Terminal Machine is my namespace for code & software collabs. Admittedly, the name is a riff on Net Terminal Genes, from the BLAME! manga series. My wheelhouse:

  • Cloud: AWS, Terraform, Docker
  • Backend & APIs: Postgres, SQL, GraphQL, REST
  • AI: LangChain, OpenAI
  • Process: Agile/scrum, Analysis, Consulting, QA
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Goals & Aspirations

Short term Support entrepreneural & creative generalists (that's my tribe!)
Medium term Acquire the experience, tools & resources for NTM to contribute to humane / humanist economies and ventures.
Long term Retire to a tiny house on a grassy knoll somewhere, surrounded by pretty flowers and good neighbors.

Experience

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
2023 LWJ58F2K6JBEQTC1 AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Work History

  • Contractor

    Net Terminal Machine

    • Subcontracting work for small to medium-sized projects / companies.
    • Assisting tech startups
    • Incubating small projects of my own.

      • Product ManagementPrototypingCommunity BuildingSoftware Engineering

  • Snr Software Engineer

    Startups + Miscellanous

    • Backend development in the electric vehicles charging & fleet management space: GraphQL multi-service application (using apollo federated graph) with AWS cloud infra integrating with multiple 3rd party vendor APIs
    • Fullstack development (incl slack client apps and in-slack messaging chatbots) backed by nextjs
    • Some mobile application development (for iOS and Android: insurance claims management incl. upload of claim documents as images, image resizing etc.)

    TypescriptGraphQLApolloPostgraphilePostgreSQLAWSaws-clilocalstackgrafanasequelizeDockerReactReact NativeXcodeAndroid StudioES6Typescript

  • Senior Business Analyst / PO / Senior Consultant

    Misc. Medium & Large Global Consulting Firms

    • BA Roles performing: Requirements analysis and validation, Change management, training delivery, UAT, Gap-fit analysis for clients in Retail / Trade & Logistics / Construction / Retail Banking / Public Transit.
    • Acting PO roles for ontology management system: backlog management and sprint planning for R&D team working on Information Retrieval problems.
    • Protoyping automated progress reports (initially a pdf report, then a web app) for search engine performance on behalf of an IR team (using, R, R Shiny)

    Microsoft Dynamics AXUMLBPMNJIRAAgileScrumRR ShinySQLMERN stack

  • Research Assistant / Developer

    Miscellanous

    Roles included:

    • Research assistance with GIS projects (Hexagonal Discrete Global Grids) and related prototyping with Qt, C++
    • Research to design an ideal file format for hex grid data
    • Application support work and early web templating systems
    • Design of XML schemas (for airline crew planning / bidding for flights, rest, vacation), perl scripts (parsers), C++ code for data ingestion and population of object models, etc.
    • Some PHP Web & Adobe Flash development
    • Some early freelance web development and graphic design work

    OracleToad database clientArcGISQtCC++LinuxPHPDrupalAdobe FlashHTMLCSSXMLPerlAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Illustrator

Education

Diploma, Digital Media Arts 2007 Seneca@York College, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Bsc.(Hons) Computer System Engineering 1997 University of Bedfordshire, England, UK