• A lead developer & senior 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

Lead Developer & Senior Technical Advisor (acting) | 06/2023 - ongoing
Data, Surveillance and Foresight Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada

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

Lead Developer & Technical Advisor | 01/2023 - 06/2023
Science and Parliamentary Infrastructure Branch, Public Services and Procurement Canada

• 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 10+ retired or stalled projects to decommission, directly reducing cloud bills, maintenance burden, and potential risks & attack surface
  • Matured the remaining applications and infrastructure by eliminating manual deploy steps, implementing automated rollback capabilities, hardening configurations, etc.

Lead Developer | 09/2017 - 12/2022
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

  • Iterated on and maintained the project's large React frontend

    • E.g. through gradual refactors to legacy code, brought the average turn around of routine site updates from a baseline of 5 business days to an average of 0.13

  • Built backend microservices to support the main application

    • E.g. built a versatile template based form service, used to collect, validate, store, and alert the team across multiple lines of in-app user feedback

  • 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

CO-OP 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