Software Engineer
2017 - 2017Pinterest- Worked on advertiser database sharding project as part of the ads platform team.
- Improved the advertiser admin search speed by 22.2% with Elasticsearch.
- Developed an Elasticsearch client to reroute text-based queries from an underlying MySQL data layer to an Elasticsearch cluster.
- Created a metric dashboard for shard clusters to monitor latency, network, and cpu usage.
Technologies: OpenTSDB, Apache Thrift, Bash, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, PythonSoftware Engineer
2017 - 2017Leanplum (via Toptal)- Provided engineering assistance with rolling out of the HTML in-app notification system.
- Added various features on a legacy system that was running on Angular 1.x and vanilla JavaScript.
- Fixed and improved the underperforming application features such as IP filtering and the mobile web view flickering.
Technologies: WebSockets, XML, Sass, HTML, JavaScript, Java, AngularSoftware Engineer
2016 - 2017Autobeacon (via Toptal)- Developed a deployment-and-development pipeline for a Node.js project utilizing Heroku and GitHub.
- Integrated a transactional email service using SendGrid.
- Added error handling and middleman security to all server endpoints—accommodating the front-end of the iOS application.
- Penetration-tested an application using Burp Suite to guarantee security.
Technologies: SendGrid, MongoDB, Node.jsFull-stack Developer
2016 - 2017TopHat- Created an online marketplace to sell proprietary textbooks, question packs, and slide packs to application users using React as the driving front-end framework.
- Integrated 100% test coverage on the back and front-end using Mocha, Sinon, Selenium, and Python.
- Worked on a product currently used in over 4,000 university classrooms each semester.
- Increased the back-end module item copying run-time by 10%.
- Played an active role in architecting the back-end models for the marketplace.
- Created an online text editor/viewer capable of highlighting and note pinning to be used by over 2,000,000 users.
Technologies: Sass, JavaScript, Django, Python, ReactTeaching Assistant (CSC309 - Programming on the Web)
2016 - 2016University of Toronto- Led and created tutorials for students in React, Meteor, Git, and Node.
- Assisted in restructuring the course outline.
- Marked various assignments and final exams.
- Taught a lecture on Meteor and deployment processes of web applications.
- Created starter packs for Node and React in order to assist student understanding of various web frameworks.
Technologies: Node.js, Meteor, Mocha, ReactSoftware Engineer
2015 - 2015Orbis Access- Rebuilt from scratch the web application for The Orbis Challenge.
- Worked on full-stack web development using the .NET framework, Microsoft Azure, Angular, and LESS.
- Performed business intelligence and analytics work with Google Analytics Query Engine and QlikView.
- Created a Python program to parallelize AI game submissions on the cloud through the use of docker instances.
- Used Burp Suite to penetration-test a web application to ensure there were no security leaks.
Technologies: Microsoft Azure, Mercurial, Angular, LINQ, Entity, C#, ASP.NET MVCSoftware Engineer
2013 - 2014Clect Computing- Created a student concierge app for a local financial institution.
- Interfaced with Node and Socket.IO to implement real-time communication to notify clerks of customer arrivals.
- Designed back-end relational models to manage client information.
- Presented the application to a panel of engineers upon contract end-date.
- Used Burp Suite to test-penetrate the web application and to ensure security leaks were nonexistent.
Technologies: CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, Ajax, Socket.IO, SQL, Express.js, Node.js