Experience
2021 — Now
Ontario, Canada
Lead and mentor high-performing engineering teams (currently 13 engineers on Edge Infrastructure; previously 9+ on Core Infrastructure), focusing on technical leadership, career development, and cross-team coordination.
Deliver global architectures and platforms that support massive scale, including intelligent routing, load balancing, caching, edge compute, and performance/capacity-based coordination while consistently maintaining 99.99% availability.
Drive fleet-wide efficiency, throughput, and tail latency improvements across multi-region, multi-cloud environments (Google, Cloudflare, etc).
Own technical roadmap prioritization across competing initiatives, including Kubernetes/GKE platforms, traffic management, autoscaling, and resiliency enhancements, achieving measurable gains in fleet utilization and operational excellence.
Resolve complex distributed systems issues related to cache behavior, tail latency, and cross-region coordination while balancing performance improvements with deploy safety and operational impact.
Champion incident response, capacity planning, and postmortems to turn challenges into lasting process improvements.
2017 — 2021
2017 — 2021
Designed, developed, and operated high-traffic cloud infrastructure and distributed systems supporting millions of merchant stores and processing billions in global sales during peak events.
Focused on building resilient, scalable platforms with strong emphasis on operational excellence.
2015 — 2017
2015 — 2017
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area
Provided technical leadership for resource allocation and scheduling components in large-scale, high-availability public cloud infrastructure. Contributed to robust distributed systems with focus on performance and reliability.
2012 — 2015
2012 — 2015
Ottawa, Canada Area
LightSpeed offers powerful inventory and business workflows for Mac, Mobile, eCommerce, and now iPad, allowing iGeneration retailers to show and sell anywhere.
2008 — 2012
2008 — 2012
Ontario, Canada
Developed cloud-based backup/restore applications and system services with focus on Kernel memory management, security, and performance on ARM architectures.
Education
University of Ottawa
Ph.D.
2002 — 2006
University of Ottawa
M.A.Sc
2000 — 2002