Foko Retail (DevOps Engineer)
[Acquired by Workforce Software]
November 2020 - Present
- Introduced distributed tracing to Foko’s microservice backend using OpenTelemetry, reducing the time it takes to diagnose the root-cause of issues in production from hours to minutes.
- Designed and implemented MVP for an analytics/reporting ETL pipeline, allowing Customer Success to self-serve reports. Previously this required an engineer to manually run scripts on a VM.
- As part of the cloud migration from AWS to GCP, implemented data-driven autoscaling policies. Prior to this all scaling was done manually.
Key technologies: ArgoCD/Workflows, GCP suite of products (GKE, BigQuery, Memorystore, …), Kubernetes, Opentelemetry, flux2
Micro Focus (Tech Lead - Kubernetes)
Feb 2019 - October 2020
- Architected a Kubernetes deployment for Interset’s big data infrastructure
- Led the functional team that delivered the first integration of Interset’s analytics engine with HPE Arcsight
- Authored and lead training sessions with various internal audiences
- Technical deep-dives on Apache Spark and Vertica running on Kubernetes for technical audiences
- High-level overviews of machine learning/AI applications in cybersecurity for cross-functional audiences
- Developed data integrity tests, identifying and resolving critical reliability issues
Key technologies: Apache Kafka, Amazon AWS, Arcsight CDF, Docker, Kubernetes, HPE Vertica, Saltstack
Interset (Data Engineer)
[Acquired by MicroFocus]
August 2017 - Feb 2019
- Developed integrations for Interset with the Vertica database, helping support the technical reasoning behind the eventual acquisition of Interset by Micro Focus
- Collaborated with Customer Solutions and Customer Support teams to engage on critical customer escalations
- Led “Lunch & Learn” workshops about essential development tools for co-op students
- Provided mentorship for co-op students, leading them through project planning, development, and delivery
- Implemented machine learning models created by the data science team in Scala running on Apache Spark
- Led investigations identifying major performance issues with production Spark & HBase systems caused by sub-optimal configurations
- Reviewed SQL queries, identifying inefficiencies and reducing query run times by 60%
Key technologies: Apache HBase, Apache Kafka, Apache Phoenix, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, Docker, Elasticsearch, HPE Vertica, Java, Jenkins, R, Scala
Rizn.IO (Co-Founder)
April 2016 - August 2017
- Built a decision management framework to estimate the likelihood of an outcome based on probabilistic evaluations of evidence presented by a subject matter expert
- Using Python with Django framework as a back end and Angular with Typescript front end
- Provided technical demonstrations and fielded in-depth technical Q&A around the product with potential investors and customers
Key technologies: Angular, Django Rest Framework, Celery, Postgres, Python, RabbitMQ, Typescript
MicroMetrics (Data Science Intern)
March 2015 - Oct 2015
- Performed initial data exploration on survey data kept in Excel spreadsheets
- Designed algorithms to identify abusive users exploiting system functionality, tainting overall data and its resultant value
- Created comparative data sets from real-world users to provide controls for comparison
- Performed sentiment analysis on text responses to extract high value customer experience targets for businesses
Key technologies: Python
Education
Bachelor of Mathematics - Carleton University (Graduated 2014)
Extracurriculars
The Moonroom (Barback)
June 2014 - July 2017
- Sometimes you need to work in a bar for 3 years and find yourself
- Started the Moonroom ice program by hacking together old freezers and water pumps to make an ice-block-making machine