• A senior developer & technical advisor, modernizing Canada's public health data platforms & infrastructure
• Previously lead developer on GC InfoBase (canada.ca/gcinfobase, github.com/TBS-EACPD/infobase), a React SPA client backed by a serverless GraphQL API

Resume

Senior Developer & Technical Advisor (01/2023 - Present)

Digital Transformation Branch, Health Canada ^{07/2024 -
Present}

• Architected and lead development on the Interoperable Immunization Data Initiative proof of concept, demonstrating interoperable immunization data exchange using FHIR-based APIs, federated aggregation, and simulated cross-jurisdictional record transfers between provincial and federal stakeholders

Data, Surveillance and Foresight Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada ^{06/2023 -
07/2024}

• Contributed logging utilities to the branch's internal Django library, enabling standardized, enriched, and security policy compliant logs in both Google Cloud & Azure environments

• Lead infrastructure and security architecture design and implementation for the branch's first Kubernetes-based Django application deployment

  • Coordinated with project managers, application developers, and IT security to collect and track business and technical requirements; drafted the resulting architecture

  • Achieved a production-ready deployment and provided lessons-learned for future kubernetes use within the organization

Science and Parliamentary Infrastructure Branch, Public Services and Procurement Canada ^{01/2023 -
06/2023}

• Advised on technical aspects of a branch-wide data policy refresh

• Triaged an inherited portfolio of ~20 projects in various stages from prototype to pilot

  • Identified and decommissioned dead projects, directly reducing cloud bills, maintenance burden, and potential risks & attack surfaces

  • Matured the remaining applications and infrastructure by eliminating manual deploy steps, implementing automated rollback capabilities, hardening configurations, etc.

From Developer to Lead Developer (09/2017 - 01/2023)

Expenditure Management Sector, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

• Lead the GC InfoBase project beginning in Summer 2018; held responsibility for the project's technical direction, overall design, and for the team's developer talent

  • Developed and maintained the project's large React frontend

  • Built backend microservices to enable new features in the core application

  • Architected and administered infrastructure and operations for the project

    • E.g. transitioned hosting from tenancy in an external team's servers to cloud platforms & an in-house DevOps culture, taking deploy times from days to minutes

  • Developed tooling to multiply team productivity and reinforce best practices

    • E.g. implemented automated end-to-end WCAG 2.1 accessibility testing for CI

  • Championed code standards, review practices, testing, CI/CD, and working in the open

    • E.g. sold stakeholders on open sourcing the project; was awarded in recognition of the direct positive impacts one year later

  • Hired, supervised, and mentored junior developers and CO-OP students

• Built the data collection tool used for the centralized tracking of COVID-19 related expenditures across all government departments

  • Quickly learnt Python, Django, an existing internal platform's code & environment, and the business requirements; met the ambitious 3 month deadline provided for launch

  • Contributed lasting improvements to the existing platform's testing practices

Student & Part-time Developer (01/2015 - 09/2017)

Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

• Self-taught JS, HTML, CSS, and Git; developed the early HR data portions of GC InfoBase