I'm a software engineer with 12+ years of experience building and shipping web products. My sweet spot is backend systems, but I work comfortably across the stack and have led engineering teams. Recent projects are in Go, TypeScript, and Python, but I'll use whatever tech fits the problem. I work best when I have real ownership, direct conversations with stakeholders, and a team of peers who set a high bar for quality and delivery.
Experience
Staff Software Engineer
SimSpace, Montreal
- Built a service to synchronize user and organization data to the authorization system Topaz with both realtime and batch syncing capabilities
- Designed a multi-tenancy architecture using Keycloak and created an organization admin self-service console allowing enterprise customers to manage their own users
- Implemented an asynchronous background worker to analyze logs and measure cybersecurity tool effectiveness, in close collaboration with the Data Science team, and set best practices for production-readiness in Python codebases
- Technologies used: Go, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
Engineering Manager
SimSpace, Montreal
- Engineering manager leading a high-performing and cross-functional feature team composed of product owner, UX designers, frontend and backend engineers
- Improved product delivery flow by establishing clear product requirements, technical designs, meeting notes, increasing frontend and backend collaboration through pairing and API documentation, and building a sense of product ownership among engineers
- Helped create and staff a separate infrastructure team with a focus on CI/CD platform and developer tooling, increasing overall productivity of the engineering organization
- Created a centralized internal engineering documentation site which improved knowledge sharing and retention, with content authored in Markdown that is searchable, discoverable, and version-controlled
Senior Software Engineer
SimSpace, Montreal
- Backend software engineer, worked on core web platform providing Cyber Range management and Network Specification editing capabilities
- Planned, designed, and implemented major features such as a library of reusable network elements (virtual machine templates, configuration modules)
- Improved the onboarding experience of software engineers by creating a new hire checklist, recording product walkthroughs, and generating a seed database to bootstrap local environments
- Technologies used: Haskell, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes
Senior Software Engineer
Busbud, Montreal
- Full-stack web developer working on the customer website (busbud.com), as well as backend services (REST API, internal tools)
- Delivered major projects by communicating with stakeholders, designing data models and interfaces, producing technical specifications, and coding the implementation
- Increased confidence in deployment and code maintainability, by introducing TypeScript and other static analysis tools, leveraging a new end-to-end testing framework, improving monitoring and logging, and prioritizing tasks to reduce technical debt
- Improved website performance, by reducing client-side JavaScript bundle sizes, finding opportunities to optimize code execution, implementing pagination for the search page
- Grew the team by interviewing candidates, onboarding new team members, writing documentation, being a prolific code reviewer, mentoring and teaching (gave lunch & learn presentations on TypeScript, and Algebraic Data Types)
- Technologies used: TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis
Web Developer
Self-employed, Montreal
- Worked with a startup to build the prototype of a solution that helps small businesses manage their data (Haskell, Node.js)
- Built the interface of an MVP used to explore a large database of industry data and visualize key metrics (React, Python)
Web Developer
Tidepool, Paris
- Worked remotely for the non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce the burden of Type-1 Diabetes
- Helped build the core platform which synchronizes diabetes data from many medical devices
- Built with a small team of developers the MVP version of Blip, a web-based data visualization tool
- Technologies used: JavaScript, React, Go
Education
Columbia University
MS in Operations Research, New York
- Selected coursework: Deterministic and Stochastic Models, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship, Supply Chain
Ecole Centrale de Nantes
MS in Industrial Engineering, France
- Selected coursework: Probability and Statistics, Calculus, Economics, International Strategy
Skills
Languages
Go, TypeScript, Python
Technologies
PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kubernetes