Successfully laid the foundation for and nurtured two separate teams, guiding them through the stages of storming, norming, and performing, resulting in increased productivity and team cohesion.

Provided ongoing mentorship and guidance to senior engineers and managers, supporting their professional growth and development.

Developed and maintained strong relationships with stakeholders, effectively communicating project updates and managing expectations.

Championed cross functional empathy through clear and consistent communication across organizational lines and fostering a culture based on trust and the assumption of positive intent.

Orchestrated the architecture and scaling of Lever's core backend services, scaling from 100-1M DAU resulting in a leading 99.98% SLA achievement and NPS improvements

Established myself as a thought leader in distributed systems and observability best practices, launching a series of internal workshops and training programs that improved observability and time-to-resolution metrics.

Hired, mentored, and led several dynamic engineering teams, facilitating the creation of 3 stellar R&D teams, supporting them through all stages of the storming, norming and performing cycle.

Played a pivotal role as a founding engineer in fortifying Lever's position in the competitive B2B SaaS CRM space, directly contributing to over 65M in ARR through a focus on rapid development, design and state-of-the-art analytics.

Collaborated closely with product managers and designers to rapidly prototype, iterate, and deploy new features, resulting in a 40% faster time-to-market for key features

Conducted thoughtful and friendly code reviews and provided mentorship to junior engineers, fostering best practices and ensuring that code quality was maintained.

Spearheaded the design and implementation of Pixate's  application monolith using Node.js, ensuring seamless integration with MongoDB, Redis, Stripe, and AWS.

Collaborated intensively with the frontend team, co-developing Pixate’s web UI leveraging Facebook’s React library within a Flux-based application architecture, ensuring responsiveness and a user-friendly interface.

Assumed primary responsibility for dev-ops, meticulously setting up, maintaining, and monitoring AWS servers, guaranteeing 99% uptime and swift system recovery in potential downtimes.

World first deployment of Node.js for a publicly traded company

Prototyped an early version of the client proposal in a rapid 3 day-sprint, cinching the deal with Nike to run their 2012 Summer Olympics digital experience

Ran my own indie software development business that built custom CRM applications for small businesses

Simon Fraser University
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science