Senior Software Engineer with expertise in scaling Rails applications and optimizing developer workflows. Recently exploring AI product development. Proven track record supporting multi-tenant platforms with millions of users.
Available for global remote opportunities. Right to work in Canada, EU, and US 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇺🇸. B2B contracts via US LLC.
At Hivebrite:
- Reduced large-scale data export time by 98% for communities with 1M+ users
- Optimized background jobs for 66% runtime reduction (1.5k compute hours monthly)
- Cut infrastructure costs €160k annually through targeted performance optimization
- Reduced build times 50% while doubling deployment frequency
- Led platform-wide Ruby 3 and Rails 7 migration
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📦 still_active
Tired of unmaintained dependencies? Built a RubyGem that helps teams identify active vs abandoned dependencies. Used by Rails teams for dependency verification. -
🎵 Jazzify
Started as "can you help with our Excel sheets?" for Ottawa Jazz Festival. 9 years later, it's a full Rails platform managing thousands of volunteer applications. Complete volunteer recruitment modernization. -
🔬 Stream Processing Research
Made ML stream processing 160x faster during grad school. Novel algorithm for handling partially labeled data streams. Published at ECML PKDD workshop.
- Performance Optimization: Finding and fixing bottlenecks at scale
- Developer Experience: Automating the boring stuff
- System Design: Building things that scale well
- AI & ML: Exploring practical applications
- Impact Focus: Measurable improvements
Open to roles in system scaling, AI product development, and performance optimization. Available for work in EU/US/Canada, or B2B contracts through my LLC.
Looking for:
- Remote-first teams with async workflows
- Technical challenges worth solving
- Clear impact potential
- Room for experimentation
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Based wherever there's stable internet and good food ☕️ 🍜