Joined as a senior developer the day before the platform went live in production; identified as high-impact early and promoted to Developer Team Lead within 6 months based on technical output, ownership, and leadership
Lead end-to-end engineering delivery across a microservices-based SaaS platform, architecting and scaling full-stack systems using Vue 3, Svelte, Laravel, Node.js, Fastify, and AWS to support a growing global merchant base
Independently designed, developed, and shipped the company's complete e-commerce plugin suite across 6 platforms including Shopify, WordPress, Magento/Adobe Commerce, OpenCart, XCart, and Shoplazza, directly expanding market reach and integration coverage
Spearheaded the Shopify app's Built for Shopify (BFS) certification process after three prior unsuccessful submission attempts prior to my involvement; achieved full approval in 4 days, well ahead of the standard 2-week timeline, unlocking a high-value Shopify distribution channel
Serve concurrently as Team Lead, Senior Developer, Scrum Master, and Release Manager; facilitate all sprint ceremonies including planning, grooming, retrospectives, and demos while representing the engineering team in cross-functional meetings with product owners, external partners, and the UI/UX team
Own the full release management lifecycle from sprint planning through rollout and post-release validation, preparing detailed release plans and maintaining up-to-date documentation across JIRA and Confluence for full team and stakeholder alignment
Champion security protocols, versioning strategy, and AWS infrastructure management across the platform; leverage AI tooling to maintain documentation discipline and delivery velocity while fostering a high-performing, communicative hybrid team culture
Joined Gigadat, Canada's volume-leading Interac payment processor serving the iGaming, FinTech, and digital payments space, processing transactions across 250+ Canadian financial institutions
Spearheaded development of core FinTech platform features and payment solutions actively serving 10,000+ clients, contributing to product reliability and growth in a high-stakes financial environment
Managed end-to-end deployment pipelines including database migrations, multi-service infrastructure upgrades, and rollback strategies to ensure zero-downtime production releases across a high-availability platform
Earned AWS Cloud Practitioner certification and sharpened expertise in Agile frameworks and modern SDLCs while rapidly adapting to a diverse and evolving tech stack in a genuinely fast-paced environment
Collaborated closely with engineers carrying decades of industry experience, consistently took on greater technical responsibility, and grew into the Senior Software Developer title through delivery and performance
Developed enterprise-grade safety compliance software used daily by construction and industrial field professionals working across remote sites throughout Canada
Built and maintained dynamic check-in modules and safety process workflows, ensuring field workers could meet compliance requirements and safety protocols efficiently from any site
Identified and implemented optimizations to platform flows from both sides: improving the product owner management experience and reducing friction for field workers completing daily safety tasks
Delivered features and resolved defects through test-driven development, maintaining high code quality and reliability across Agile sprints with rigorous QA review and JIRA-tracked delivery
Stack
PHPLaravelJavaScriptHTMLCSSJIRA
Past
Software Developer
University of British Columbia
Feb 2021 to Aug 2022
Remote (Calgary, AB)
Joined the role 2 months before graduating, hitting the ground running while finishing a Computer Science degree and transitioning directly from student athlete to professional contributor within the same institution
Migrated 60,000+ user-facing pages across UBC Okanagan's entire web platform from PHP 5.3 to 7.4 and RHEL 6 to 7, modernizing the university's full web infrastructure across dozens of departmental sites
Coordinated directly with professors, department leads, and administrative staff across the university to understand each site's requirements before initiating any changes, ensuring full accuracy and continuity throughout the migration
Approached the engagement as more than a version upgrade, improving code quality, reliability, and maintainability across every site touched, delivering a platform that performed better than it did before the migration
Operated fully remote with root-level administrative access to the entire platform, executing a large-scale production migration without a single incident or instance of downtime
Managed all database migrations and server configurations using MySQL Workbench and Interworx, handling significant technical complexity across a multi-tenant university hosting environment