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I'm a passionate software engineer based in Vancouver, BC ****🏔️ ****with 8 years of professional experience.

My focus for the majority of these years has been in the JavaScript & TypeScript ecosystem. In the past two years I have immersed myself in the cloud computing space, gaining experience in Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL and Azure & AWS.

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👨🏻‍💻 ****Work Experience

Platform Architect

Legible, Vancouver, Canada (Remote) | Jan 2022 – Present

Directly reporting to the CTO, I am responsible for the direction of the software architecture and technology strategy.

Development team enabler and mentor for web and cloud technology with best practices, propagated internal standards. Supported multiple teams to increase adoption of Agile and DevOps culture.

Designer and engineer of proof-of-concepts to evaluate and adopt long-term technology choices and specifications.

Defined and improved the developer experience for multiple codebases:

JS/TS/GraphQL/React/NodeJS monorepo for web applications.

Java/Go/Kafka services for core platform systems.

Principal engineer for backend systems using technologies such as Go, Kafka (Streams API), PostgresDB DBA (indexing optimizations, migrations, diagnostics).

Established roadmaps and planning for enterprise SOA adoption, internal API stability and discoverability, OAuth/OIDC adoption, TDD sustainability, migrating React usage to TypeScript (to match backend).

Head of Development

Legible, Vancouver, Canada (Remote) | Sep 2020 – Jan 2022

Directly reporting to the CEO, I hired and managed a full software development department to produce a next generation – web & mobile first – reading and publishing platform.

Primary contributor to the development environment and initial codebase for a full-stack web development experience for my team, which included integrations for:

Compilers/transpilers (TypeScript, Babel), module & asset bundlers (Webpack), packagers (NPM/Yarn, Docker), linters (ESLint), formatters (Prettier), test & coverage runners (Jest), API docs & changelog generators, git commit-time checkers (Husky), monorepo & multi-project linkers (Lerna, Yarn workspaces), components explorer (Storybook)