Here are some back-of-the-napkin sketches of my work experience.
Overview
Last updated September 2025
- 2023 - Distinguished Software Engineer Hunter Industries
- 2023 (9 mo.) Senior Software Engineer AWS
- 2021 - Software Engineer AWS
- 2021 (6 mo.) Acting Manager AWS
- 2020 - Software Engineer AWS
- 2019 - Senior Software Developer Morgan Stanley
- 2018 - Technical Lead Arcurve Inc
- 2016 - Software Developer Arcurve Inc
- 2014 - Software Developer Intern Arcurve Inc
- 2013 - Software Developer / Research Assistant University of Calgary
- 2011 - 2016 Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering University of Calgary
Provide engaging and timely training for the department
Role:
Employer: Hunter Industries
30 people
since October 2023
Distinguished Software Engineer
- Collaborate with other distinguished engineers to identify and address software delivery threats
- Lead a department-wide "show and tell" code review to highlight and share techniques
- Address emerging skill gaps in the department by providing monthly mini-training on software development practices
⇅HTTP
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Reduce delivery lead time from >1yr to 100 days
Role:
Employer: Hunter Industries
3+ people
since October 2023
Distinguished Software Engineer
- Modernized legacy code while speeding up feature development
- De-risked our framework upgrade by developing a hybrid mode (Angular 12 + 20) to allow incremental upgrades
- Designed, built, deployed, and operated serverless backend systems to integrate with various existing systems (SSO, legacy application, IoT)
- Trained teammates in software architecture, stakeholder communication, computer science
- Developed new software patterns and shared them across the department
Support tech leads in designing and executing software deliveries
Role:
Employer: Amazon Web Services
12 people
9 months months
Senior Software Development Engineer (L6)
- Helping tech leads navigate technical challenges faced in their design
- Linking current design work to multi-year organizational objectives
- Writing production code to prove concepts, set patterns, and create examples of design concepts
- Writing technical documents to align business leaders and the engineering team
- Implementing mechanisms for sharing and enforcing technical design throughout the team
- Teaching test design, technical writing and communication, and other skills that increase a tech lead's effectiveness
- Mentoring several engineers
- Oncall operations -- resolving high severity operational incidents in response to our system alarms
administrator customers
⇅public AWS API
existing service
existing service
⇅method call
⇅method call
new code (hexagonal architecture)
⇅message queue
new code and infrastructure (hexagonal architecture)
⇅API call
existing storage service (with modifications)
⇅public AWS API
consuming customers
Design & Lead High Scale Feature
Role:
Employer: Amazon Web Services
7 people
6 months
Software Development Engineer II (L5)
- leading the team in adding a new system capability which allows customers to perform the work of 1000s of API calls through a single gesture (API / CloudFormation update / Console action)
- apply distributed system design principals to integrate this 1000x scale with the existing system which is not designed for that scale
- navigate tradeoffs between upgrading existing systems (to safely handle scale) and delivering in a timely manner. We are making some upgrades and leaving some systems unchanged.
- apply hexagonal architecture to isolate the core business logic from the integration points (as we increase the scale later in the project, this architecture allows us to move the core logic from an existing service to a new service without rewriting or retesting core logic)
- mentor, train, and guide the team so everyone can contribute to the design and coding
Leading Our Growing Team Through A Transition
Role:
Employer: Amazon Web Services
12 people
8 months
Acting Software Development Manager
- mentoring and supporting 10+ engineers with weekly 1:1s
- supporting onboarding of 4+ engineers
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coaching several engineers who are mentoring interns for the first time
- of the 4 summer interns, 3 returned to our team summer 2022
- actively participating in most team code reviews
- promoting technical practices like refactoring, domain driven design, and customer-centric design
- spearheading the team's ramp-up on a neighboring system as our area of ownership doubled
⇅public AWS API
⇅HTTP via SDKs
Enhancing AWS Service Catalog
Role:
Employer: Amazon Web Services
9 people
15 months
Software Development Engineer II
- redesign core data processing component of our system from procedural and error prone to highly scalable / retryable queue & lambda architecture
- introduce pairing and mobbing to our team to accelerate knowledge/skill transfer and increase code quality
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established contract testing on the team to
- reduce time to add tests for a big feature from months to days
- increase stability of tests in the build pipeline
- increase the percentage of testing we can do through unit tests (reducing iteration time from minutes to seconds)
- led the investigation and mitigation of several customer-impacting operational incidents while oncall
- established User Story Mapping on the team to make our design activities more customer-centric.
⇅HTTP
Modifying a Legacy Application
Role:
Employer: Shareworks by Morgan Stanley
> 100 people
6 months
Sr. Developer
- Mob and pair programming to add features to a legacy Java application
- Familiarized myself with a new area of code each month (every team can be assigned to work on any area of the code)
- Story-splitting and user story mapping
- Refactored partially tested legacy code (safely) to make it easier to change
- Demoed weekly to clients
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Took initiative to improve shared automation and tooling
- published a command line interface (with tab completion) to abstract, document, and improve common developer commands (people actually use it and submit PRs)
- wrote a small Ruby on Rails tool to make test failure results easier to triage (still in trial/demo stage)
⇅HTTP
⇅HTTP
⇅various protocols
Real-Time Well Monitoring Dashboard
Role:
Employer: Arcurve Inc
Client:
Oilfield services
(publicly traded)
2 people
4 months
Tech Lead
- Led Domain Driven Design style modelling session with team (incl. user researcher, UX, and PM) to clarify the problem statement and approach
- Prototyped experimental data visualizations with Highcharts from provided mockups
- Setup project build & test infrastructure (using Lerna to manage the monorepo; auto-generating the Angular SDK from the API Swagger doc)
- Built inexpensive demo infrastructure so we can deploy before the upstream integration points (external team) are available
- Conducted job interviews
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Reverse Engineering
Role:
Employer: Arcurve Inc
Client:
Corporate minutebook management
(startup)
1 person
5 months
Tech Lead
- Built an import utility for a proprietary data format: inferred the domain model/rules from the data, wrote a custom parser.
- Integrated this component with our client's code
- Provided extensive documentation and training so their development team was comfortable maintaining the import utility
- Conducted job interviews
⇅HTTP
⇅HTTP
AWS EC2
on-premise
Team Lead
Role:
Employer: Arcurve Inc
Client:
Telecommunications provider
(publicly traded)
8 people
6 months
Tech Lead
- Updated team processes to increase knowledge sharing and collaboration between team members
- Identified a way to temporarily reuse legacy components in order to release sooner
- Conducted job interviews
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Heroku
Architected for Reuse
Role:
Employer: Arcurve Inc
Client:
Professional certification auditing
(startup)
3 people
3 months
Developer
- Architected and unit tested the application in a way that allowed us to salvage most of the application when the client drastically changed their application after several months (new UI, new data model)
- Maintained respectful, constructive communication with our client in a challenging team environment
⇅WebRTC
⇅WebSocket
⇅various protocols
Browser WebRTC Protocol Deep Dive
Role:
Employer: Arcurve Inc
Client:
Video conferencing
(private corporation)
2 people
12 months
Developer
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Integrated the emerging WebRTC protocol with our client's custom video
conferencing infrastructure via a proof-of-concept JavaScript library
- Enabled video calling between a browser and multiple embedded and/or desktop clients
- Collaborated constructively and respectfully with my technical lead in the face of many differences of opinion
⇅HTTP
Following Patterns; Accepting Feedback
Role:
Employer: Arcurve Inc
Client:
Land acquisition service provider
(private corporation)
2 people
4 months
Developer
- Followed patterns set by previous developers
- Collaborated through code reviews — receiving (accepting, adopting) feedback, discussing my approach
⇅HTTP
Linux (shared cloud hosting)
Navigated Technical Debt
Role:
Employer: Arcurve Inc
Client:
Surplus oilfield equipment broker
(startup)
1 person
4 months
Intern
- Identified and fixed several illusive bugs in a very indebted and haphazardly constructed application
- Participated in requirements elicitation from domain experts who had little technical understanding
Macro Serializer (3rd party)
Version Control
TDD & Version Control with Excel VBA
Role:
Employer: Arcurve Inc
Client:
Oilfield services
(publicly traded)
1 person
3 months
Intern
- Proposed new business process to reduce lead time for new clients by 50%
- Modified the existing Excel VBA tool to support the new process
⇅HTTP
Software Engineering Decision Support Lab
Role:
Employer: University of Calgary
2 people
4 months
Research Assistant
- Implemented a synchronization utility between JIRA and a proprietary business intelligence / project planning tool
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, 2016
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary