I'm a full stack engineer from Canada currently on sabbatical in Australia taking on freelance projects.

I have experience all over the stack, from designing A/B tests on the front-end to backend and data engineering.

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Experience

Software Engineer

Noom

9/2021 - Present

New York

  • Pioneered a new system for client-server communication that reduced DB costs by 3x
  • Introduced the ability to deploy developer instances of services on-demand to speed up dev velocity
  • Developed and launched the second iteration of Noom's experiment framework which serves all traffic on noom.com

Data Engineer

Munich Re

9/2019 - 12/2019

New York

  • Developed custom visualization, navigation and annotation components for reviewing medical PDFs in the browser
  • Managed the production deployment of a hosted PDF viewer using Docker and CI/CD pipelines
  • Orchestrated machine learning pipelines with Airflow

Data Scientist

Munich Re

1/2019 - 4/2019

New York

  • Researched and implemented a parallelized, clustering-based algorithm to reduce dimensionality in datasets with correlated features
  • Developed black-box model interpretation tools in Python and React
  • Evaluated alternative data sources using interpretable random forest models

Software Developer

Bonfire Interactive

5/2018 - 8/2018

Kitchener

  • Developed new features for the core procurement app with Angular and Node
  • Kickstarted the consolidation of several backend services into a Node API
  • Spearheaded the addition of an integration testing framework

Selected Projects

GNight

Generalized knight simulator and visualizer

C++, OpenCV, d3.js

7/2019

  • Analyzed movement of general chess knights using BFS and Random Walk algorithms
  • Built a path visualization module using C++, OpenCV
  • Implemented animated visualizations in d3 for the explorative post on my blog

GoCV

Templated resume generator

Golang

9/2019

  • Built a resume template engine to generate this resume from JSON data
  • Supports LaTex and HTML formats

Teaching and Research

Research Assistant

Stereo 3D Images (Supervisor: Lesley Istead)

5/2019 - 8/2019

  • Researched algorithms for consistent stereo 3D line drawings
  • Implemented a 3D image stylization algorithm in OpenCV

Teaching Assistant

Math and Computer Science

9/2017 - 4/2021

  • Organized and presented end-of-term review sessions for hundreds of students
  • Prepared weekly review courses for first year courses
  • Specialties: Functional Programming, Linear Algebra, Statistics

Education

University of Waterloo

Computer Science (9/2016 - 4/2021)

Dean's Honour List, 91 Average

Favourite Courses: Computer Graphics, Science Fiction, Game Theory

Skills

Programming Languages

Python, JavaScript/Node, Java/Kotlin, C/C++

Frontend Frameworks

React, Angular

Graphics and Visualization

OpenCV, OpenGL, d3.js

Interests

Ultimate Frisbee

I've played for my university's school team for three seasons.

I also played on NYU's team while living in New York and for an Australian team during their national beach tournament.

Cycling

I worked at a bike shop in Australia for 3 months

While in New York I biked to work every day, as well as to all five boroughs.

Creative Writing

I write articles about various math, sports and business topics on my blog.