Technical Skills

CI/CD & Source Control

Git GitLab CI GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps Subversion Team Foundation Server

Cloud Technologies

AWS (ECS, ECR, EC2, S3, Fargate, RDS, Lambda) Digital Ocean Linode

Database

SQL (MySQL, T-SQL) SSAS SSIS SSDT

Frameworks

Laravel VueJS Angular jQuery Ionic Framework Electron NestJS

Operating Systems

Windows macOS Linux

Programming Languages

C C++ C# Java Visual Basic VB.NET Python R

Scripting

AutoIT Bash PowerShell

Testing

PHPUnit Jest XUnit MSTest JUnit HP Quality Center

Web Technologies

JavaScript/TypeScript PHP ASP.NET CSS

Experience

Director of Technology

Blade Air

May 2024 - Feb 2026
  • Served as sole technical leader for an organization of 30, reporting directly to the CEO and owning technology strategy beyond software development
  • Built a web-based ROI calculator replacing manual Excel workflows, improving efficiency by 200%
  • Developed an integrated quoting tool connecting HubSpot, Katana, and AWS SES, reducing manual effort by 40% and streamlining the quote-to-PO pipeline
  • Evaluated and selected technology vendors
  • Consolidated and simplified the organization’s technology tooling
  • Tech stack: .NET , PHP/Laravel, JavaScript, Python
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Principal Software Developer

Blade Air

July 2023 - May 2024
  • Practiced TDD for implementation of new developer-facing APIs
  • Built mobile and desktop applications using VueJS (Ionic and Electron)
  • Completed migration to AWS ECS enabling auto-scaling of applications
  • Worked with the business to prioritize features for company growth
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Principal Software Developer

CleanAir.ai

2022 - July 2023
  • Lead a team of engineers (software and hardware) to build air filters which can tell you how full they are
  • Practiced TDD for implementation of new developer-facing APIs
  • Built mobile and desktop applications using VueJS (Ionic and Electron)
  • Completed the migration to AWS ECS to allow for auto-scaling of applications
  • Worked with the business to prioritize the appropriate features for company growth
  • Monitored the health of the system in AWS
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Lead Software Developer (Part Time)

CleanAir.ai

2018 - 2022
  • Worked with the founders to derive the vision for the application
  • Built the architecture plan for the current application, to ensure data security and scalability
  • Setup an automated CI/CD pipeline
  • Guided students through the implementation of firmware for an ESP826/ESP32 device
  • Built the initial mobile application using Ionic Framework and VueJS
  • Maintained code quality through a code review process
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Education

University of Guelph

Bachelor of Science - Computing and Information Science (Co-op)

2005 - 2010

John Hopkins University - Coursera

Data Scientist Specialization

2015 - 2016

Toastmasters International

Advanced Leader Bronze, Competent Communicator

2012 - 2016
  • Sergeant at Arms, Vice President of Education, Mentorship Chair

Certifications

Fundamentals of Ansible

Red Hat

2025

Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT

Vanderbilt University

2025

OpenAI GPTs: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistants

Vanderbilt University

2025

AI Agents and Agentic AI Architecture in Python

Vanderbilt University

2025

AI Agents and Agentic AI with Python & Generative AI

Vanderbilt University

2025

Building Data Lakes on AWS

Amazon Web Services

2025

Architecting Solutions on AWS

Amazon Web Services

2025

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials

Amazon Web Services

2025

Agile Project Management

Google

2025

Google Project Management Professional Certificate (v2)

Coursera

2025

Project Execution: Running the Project

Google

2025

Project Planning: Putting It All Together

Google

2025

Foundations of Project Management

Google

2024

Project Initiation: Starting a Successful Project

Google

2024

Negotiating with Agility

LinkedIn

2019

People Analytics

Coursera

2017

Database Management Essentials

Coursera

2017

Operations Analytics

Coursera

2017

Customer Analytics

Coursera

2017

Data Science Specialization

Coursera

2016

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

2015

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Scrum Alliance

2015

AWS Cloud Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Business Intelligence and Maintenance

Microsoft

2011

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - SQL Server 2008

Microsoft

2011

Technology Specialist - .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development

Microsoft

2011

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