CV

Experience

LegalMate

Reliable data management and workflow automation for legal professionals across the USA and Canada

Co-Founder & CTO, Nov 2020 - Sep 2024

• Developed the world’s first purpose-built durable legal automation platform
• Oversaw all technology strategy, design, development, and deployment
• Implemented reentrant processes and durable execution for high reliability
• Python, JavaScript, Clojure, Temporal, PostgreSQL

Ada

AI-powered customer service automation platform

Head of Engineering, Dec 2017 - Sep 2020

• Led a team of world-class software developers and data scientists
• Achieved SOC2 Type 1 compliance, PCI-DSS Level 2 compliance
• Responsible for planning, hiring, performance, strategy, vision, and culture of engineering team
• Large-scale data processing for analytics, ML labeling and training
• Online ML models for text classification, summarization, word embeddings
• Python, JavaScript, MongoDB, AWS

Development Lead, Jan 2017 - Dec 2017

• Led technical design, development, and operations of Ada’s technology
• Contributed directly to platform, application, and infrastructure code
• Coordinated engineering team’s efforts and goals

Deeptree

Startup lab focused on developer tools

Co-Founder, Feb 2016 - Feb 2017

• Python, Node.js

Tilt

The world’s fastest and simplest group payments financial platform

Engineering Lead, Mar 2015 - Feb 2016

• Led engineering for internationalization and localization of apps and services
• Automated string translation process into development tools
• Launched in 9 countries across the world
• Perl, JavaScript, Node.js

Top Hat

Education technology platform for classroom engagement and content management

Chief Architect, May 2013 - Mar 2015

• R&D of highly available systems, IT operations
• Hiring, training, culture, quality
• Python, Node.js, MySQL, RabbitMQ, AWS

VP Technology, Aug 2010 - May 2013

• Managed software releases, scheduling, resources
• Hiring and management of engineering and QA
• Directed technology strategy, process and tools
• Python, JavaScript, Websockets, AWS

Software Developer, Jan 2010 - Aug 2010

• Contributed to Firebreath open source browser plugin framework
• Created rich media execution platform
• C/C++, JavaScript, HTML, Browser plugins

Education

University of Waterloo

Applied Science, Computer Engineering, 2005 - 2010

• Wrote a real-time OS: rawkos
• Programming languages, data structures, algorithms, databases
• VLSI (Verilog and VHDL), PLC programming, FPGA prototyping
• Volunteered and learned a so much at the ASIC Design Team
• Engineering Jazz Band, Trumpet
• University Choir, Tenor

Internships & Co-ops

• Xandros, Ottawa
• Broadcom, San Jose
• Cisco, Ottawa
• AECL, Mississauga