Profile

• I'm a polyglot fullstack developer and system administrator with 17+ years experience. I enjoy travelling and working across multiple organisation types and sizes. Lately I've been working in Python and related technologies, and I've started to pick up Go.
• I have international experience and exposure gained in Canada, USA, Italy, Spain, and other European countries.
• From 2015 through 2018 I was the primary caregiver for, and eventually provided end-of-life care to my wife, who had breast cancer. Due to this, some of my roles in those years were part time.

Skills

• 17+ years in software engineering and systems administration
  • Python/JavaScript/Perl
  • Go/Java/C/C++
  • REST API design and implementation
  • SQL, Cypher
  • Data modelling
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, other RDBMSs
  • Redis, Neo4j, other NoSQL databases
  • CI/CD (git, Jenkins, Travis-ci)
  • Virtualization/Containerization (Virtualbox, VMWare, Vagrant, Docker, Docker Swarm)
  • Cloud computing (Amazon AWS, MS Azure)
  • DevOps and automation (Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions)
  • Linux/BSD systems administration
  • Network administration
• Career highlights
  • Planned and managed an $8M deployment/integration project at a major telecommunications company
  • Provided technical product and team leadership on a €500K Google grant project
  • Provided technical leadership to teams of quality assurance analysts, deployment engineers, and software developers
  • Provided team and technical leadership to distributed teams with members around the world
  • Consulted with small businesses/startups on operational and technical problems, provided training and mentoring to junior developers
  • Built a development, product, and design team on a greenfield project in the public transit/tourism sector.

Experience

Project Lead

daytrip.travel

Canary Islands, Spain

February 2020 - present

• Domain research
• Full stack development (Python, React.js, React Native, Neo4j)
• DevOps and automation (AWS EC2, S3 with Terraform, Packer)
• Team and project leadership
• Business development and evangelism

Consulting Engineer

Tyk Technologies

Remote (EMEA)

February-August 2019

• Technical leadership and consulting on client calls
• Participation in every aspect of the product lifecycle
• Development of authentication plugins (Python)
• Writing of technical blog entries

Software Developer

Ricompro

Milano, Italy

April-June 2018

• Development of an integration between an E-Commerce front end and ERP back end
• Design and development of a REST API
• Analysis of overall system security

Technical Product Manager

CRJI

Bucharest, Romania

March 2017 - March 2018

• Organization of regular meetings with the development team and project stakeholders
• Leadership of the development team
• Review and triage of issues in GitHub
• Production of quarterly reports for stakeholders
• Production of high-level technical documentation

Freelance Consultant

Self Employed

Remote

2015 - present

• Design and implementation of a document management system for an international welding engineering company
• Design and implementation of a Django-based order management system for high-capacity lifting devices
• Creation of an ansible-based automated system for deployment of new web app projects, including setting up OpenVPN, generating keyfiles &c.

Academic Director

Nicomekl Coding

London,UK

January-June 2015

• Design and delivery of targeted courses in Python, SQL

Software Design Engineer, Quality

Avvasi Inc.

Waterloo, ON

2012-2013

• Automated and manual testing of video compression appliances for telecommunications

Software Developer

MPower Labs Inc.

Austin, TX

2010-2012

• Development of mobile payment infrastructure (SMS interactions)

QA Team Lead

MPower Labs Inc.

Austin, TX

2010-2012

• QA team leadership, API test harness design/development for a mobile payment company

Software Design Engineer

MKS Inc.

Waterloo, ON

2007-2009

• On-site deployment leadership at Research In Motion on an $8M+ contract for defect management and associated integrations, performance test harness development.

Operations Lead

Exchange Solutions Inc.

Toronto, ON

2001-2003

• Oversight of day-to-day operations for a 10M+ subscriber marketing database, design and implementation of internal security measures

Software Integration Engineer

Solect, a division of Amdocs Inc.

Toronto, ON

1999-2001

• Design and implementation of a performance test harness for Solect’s IAF Horizon IP billing framework

Education

Bachelor of Science

University of Western Ontario

2003-2007

Computer Science