experience

Software Engineering Intern, Full Stack · Toronto, ON

• —Returned as a Software Engineer on the same Retail - Inventory, Search & Fulfillment team
• —Prevented fulfillment of 59.7k+ fraudulent transactions by shipping real-time fraud warnings for Shopify POS
• —Brought stock counts to Shopify's point-of-sale app so store staff can count physical inventory & correct system quantities to match, shaping the API contract & building the screen counts run from
• —Introduced new permissions & orchestrated backfills across 74M+ records to enable users to perform stock counts
• —Led biweekly quality run triage meetings and delegated across engineers three levels senior as the team's most junior engineer
• —Achieved team's first single-digit bug count in months by leading quality sprint to resolve 18 high-priority bugs, ship 44 PRs, and cut open reviews from 56 to 7

Software Engineering Intern, Backend · Toronto, ON

• —Software Engineer on the Retail - Inventory, Search & Fulfillment team
• —Architected backend job processing for e-commerce app to bound execution times for 11.2M+ jobs, stabilizing job service times from a variable 2 hrs to a max of 1.1 mins & enabling meaningful alerts with low latency (<20ms)
• —Reduced job wait times by 90% by provisioning GCP worker pods & weighted job queues to optimize server usage
• —Eliminated $34.7M erroneous charges by developing row-level SQL filters to prevent duplicate items during checkout
• —Led team's first API migration & moved pagination from frontend to backend to restore visibility to $1.75M+ GMV
• —Led implementation of feature flag infrastructure with low error rate (<0.1%) to support phased feature rollouts and rollbacks to 8.2k+ merchant stores & enable peer engineers to safely deploy hundreds of PRs

Software Engineering Intern, Backend + Infra · Remote, CAN

• —Software Engineer on the Productivity Engineering Tools team
• —Designed REST API integrating Rapid7, Armis & ServiceNow to automate vulnerability management with network blocking for non-compliant devices across 4000+ Ciena devices scanned weekly, for use by security team
• —Reduced query times to database from 2,000 ms to 12 ms by using aggregator functions and indexing foreign keys
• —Shipped Atlassian token expiration mail service to preempt authentication failures for 150+ Ciena engineers
• —Wrote 410+ unit tests to increase test coverage from 50% to 88% using unittest and PyTest frameworks
• —Reduced API response latency by 94% by parallelizing queries using Pythonic multi-threading
• —Implemented full system observability with logs, metrics, monitors, and dashboards using Datadog
• —Mentored peer engineers on back-end development and best practices

Software Engineering Intern · Hamilton, ON

• —Implemented chatbot for use in Zoom pitches with clients leading to a 75% close rate and generated $60K in revenue
• —Developed 9 AI-based modules for robotic arm to teach OOP concepts to students across high schools in California
• —Developed real-time robotic arm module that accepts user input via natural language processing to perform physical actions (i.e. fold your laundry), using machine learning for object detection

Software Engineering Intern · Montreal, QC

• —Presented intern project to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to secure $1M grant for the company
• —Spearheaded creation of embedded system to automate quality checks of PCBs, halving time spent on QA
• —Designed PCB selection UI to eliminate manual QA-related errors for 12+ lab technicians, saving $600 daily
• —Developed Standard Operating Procedure and maintained software documentation in an agile environment

Data Acquisitions Subteam Member · Hamilton, ON

Student engineering team that designs and builds a single-seater off-road vehicle from scratch to compete in the SAE Baja intercollegiate series.

• —Designed custom Throttle Position Sensor and enclosure, providing real-time max-acceleration feedback to the driver and achieving <50ms response time during extreme terrain weather conditions

President · Hamilton, ON

• —Led a 22 member team in the planning, marketing and execution of on-campus events and fundraisers
• —Spearheaded initiatives to introduce AI-based tools, resulting in a 30% reduction in time spent on routine tasks
• —Used agile methodologies for project management, leading projects from concept to final implementation