Experienced DevOps and Full-Stack Developer with a proven track record of managing and supporting complex system architectures including large-scale production environments.

Work Experience

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, ComIT

Instructor, 2023/09 - 2024/05

Teaching Software Testing for SAIT, Front End (React) for ComIT

skills: Adult Learning, facilitation, Software Testing, Storybook, Playwright, TDD, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React

Contractor (Multiple Clients)

Front End and Full Stack Developer, 2023/01 - 2023/09

Provided short-term contract support to various clients, delivering targeted assistance based on specific needs.

skills: TypeScript, React, Node.js, MySQL, Python

Nuance Communications, Massachusetts remote

Full Stack Developer, 2022/04 - 2022/12

Resolved all security vulnerabilities to satisfy audits on both the front end and back end of Nuance's "Dragon Ambient eXperience" (DAX healthcare patient interaction management), updating npm dependencies, refactoring code where needed, merging with new feature branches.

Automated Docker configuration files generation providing a simpler onboarding and a smoother Developer Experience (DX). Completed and Added features to an Electron.js internal proxy tool (similar to Fiddler, proxying browser requests to be able to inject dev code into production environments). Managed tickets, wrote end-to-end tests and fixed bugs for the Nuance Live Chat application.

skills: JavaScript, React, npm, Node.js, Docker, TypeScript, React, CucumberJS, Playwright

Walmart Labs, California remote

DevOps team lead, Edge Network Architecture and Support, Frontend Web Developer, 2015/07 - 2022/03

Various roles: Lead of a 5 member DevOps team, reduced deployment times from hours to minutes, eliminated down time implementing a blue/green strategy, helped pass security and PCI audits. Developer, migrated a Django app from PAAS (AWS) to internal infrastructure. Edge Network Support, helped markets to implement egress and cache strategies, solved production incidents. Front End Developer, Refactored pages from AngularJS to React for internal proxy/cache cluster, solved long term performance issues.

skills: CDNs, Load Balancers, Global Traffic Management, AWS, Lua, Python, Django, TypeScript, JSX, React hooks, SCSS, Bootstrap, webpack, Storybook, docker, MySQL

Telo (now neustar), Georgia remote

Developer and DevOps, 2013/09 - 2016/12

Maintenance of a Flask API backend, solving performance and scaling issues. Reduced runtime from multiple days to 8 hours to populate 600 M records from database to html on S3 by using Python processes and threads on high CPU EC2 instances

skills: Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, MonetDB, AWS EC2, SQS, RDS

Education

University of Calgary

Professional Certificate Adult Learning 2001

200 hours Certificate in Adult Learning and facilitation

The Open University

BA Honours Mathematics (Open) 1997

8 courses in pure mathematics, 3 courses in statistics