Experience

Certifications

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

Work History

  • Contractor

    Net Terminal Machine

    • contracting work for large enterprise client (technology transformation in retail space)
    • Subcontracting work for small to medium-sized software agencies
    • Assisting tech startups
    • Incubating small projects
    • go
      postgres
      gcp
      docker
      kubernetes
      argo
      grafana
      terraform
      redis
      langchain
      chatgpt
      pinecone
  • 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.)

    typescript
    react
    react native
    tailwind
    graphql
    apollo
    postgraphile
    postgresql
    aws
    aws-cli
    localstack
    grafana
    sequelize
    docker
    xcode
    android studio
    es6
  • 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 ax
    uml
    bpmn
    jira
    agile
    scrum
    r
    r shiny
    sql
    mern 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

    oracle
    toad database client
    arcgis
    perl
    qt
    c
    c++
    linux
    php
    drupal
    adobe flash
    html
    css
    xml
    adobe photoshop
    adobe illustrator

Education

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