Principal Developer
2019 - 2020Canadian Digital Service- Participated in the successful launch of COVID Alert, Canada’s exposure notification application with millions of downloads by leading the healthcare integration portal team for physicians and giving presentations to parliamentarians and media.
- Created and led the SRE (site reliability engineering) team to establish monitoring, reliability, and support capabilities.
- Developed a set of principles and guidelines for the engineering community.
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, StrategyDirector of Technology
2013 - 2019Automattic (WordPress.com VIP)- Helped thousands of sites run over 5 billion page views monthly including a single site reaching over 100 million page views in the span of 24 hours.
- Led the engineering team and created best practices for WordPress.com VIP clients and developers.
- Reviewed over 20,000 code commits from VIP clients over the course of five years, giving feedback as well as instructions on how to improve.
- Managed team members, gave performance feedback, and nurtured a diverse culture of inclusivity and performance.
- Was on call and responded to emergencies at all times of day or night on diverse problems.
- Helped shape the WordPress VIP coding standards and guidelines and created documentation for clients.
- Wrote multiple plugins for WordPress VIP clients that are built into the platform to help the largest sites scale.
- Led the incident management response in case of a security breach or any downtime.
Technologies: WordPress VIP, WordPress, Scaling, Website Performance, Web App Security, Optimization, Incident Response, Incident Management, Technical Hiring, Mentorship & Coaching, Code Review, DevOps, Presentations, Public Speaking, MariaDB, SQL Performance, Distributed Computing, Distributed Systems, Distributed Databases, Memcached, WordPress Plugins, WordPress API, WordPress OptimizationWeb Team Lead
2009 - 2013Liberal Party- Increased online revenue from $60,000 a year to over $5 million a year.
- Completely transformed payment processing and customer management system.
- Gathered over 200,000 new leads and prospects through contact acquisition.
- Reached over a million Facebook users through organic shares.
- Handled a huge increase in traffic overnight as the election ramped up.
- Worked and led the web team in the Liberal Party war room during the 2011 election.
Technologies: eCommerce, WordPress, JavaScript, PayPal, PayPal API, Scaling, Membership Sites, PCI, Analytics, Web Analytics, A/B Testing, Optimizely, Google Analytics, Incident Response, DevOps, User Engagement, Paid Advertising, Digital Advertising, Contact Acquisition, MySQL Performance Tuning, PHP PerformanceOwner
2004 - 2009Freelance- Developed custom web applications in PHP and JavaScript with a MySQL back end.
- Took client requirements and handled project deadlines.
- Created database software for contact management for niche clientele that responded to exact business requirements.
Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Databases, HTML, CSS