Strategic AI Consulting | Full-Stack Development
SaaS Specialist | Coach/Mentor | Cloud Architecture
Experienced software engineering leader with 25 years of success delivering products and guiding high-performing teams. Skilled in full-stack development with a growing focus on AI-driven solutions, including language models, recommendation systems, and workflow automation. AWS Certified Developer and Solutions Architect, blending deep technical knowledge with a servant-leadership approach to drive innovation and impact.
Startup Incubation: Led the architecture, development, and production launch of two startups from concept to production in under 6 months, accelerating go-to-market timelines, resulting in successful market entry and early customer adoption within 3 months.
AI Product Development at Morgan McKinley: Spearheaded development of AI solutions that improved business operations efficiency by 35%, saving approx. 2 million annually.
Canadian Copyright Ledger Application: Developed a innovative blockchain-based copyright ledger application for Access Copyright (Canadian nonprofit), enhancing transparency and security in digital rights management.
Global Agile Team Leadership: Travelled internationally to India and Europe to train, manage, and mentor development teams to successfully adopt agile methodologies.
Successful Fundraising: Played a key role in securing $2 million in seed capital and government grants for Imprimo, demonstrating strong business acumen and ability to articulate technical vision to investors.
Development of High-Profile Applications for Nonprofits: Delivered strategic technical solutions for high-profile nonprofit clients such as CARE Canada, Oxfam, United Church of Canada, UNICEF, and Credit Canada, driving their digital transformation efforts.
Professional Community Development: Served as a professor at Durham College, fostering an inclusive developer community through mentorship, industry engagement, and hands-on collaboration with aspiring developers.
Educational Contributions as a Professor: Served as a professor at Durham College, creating and delivering comprehensive web development curricula and mentoring students.
Toronto
Partnered with clients to analyze business needs and translate them into actionable AI and data strategies supporting marketing, operations, and customer service.
Conducted requirements gathering, stakeholder interviews, and workflow analysis to identify opportunities for process improvement and automation.
Designed and developed proof-of-concept analytics solutions, including customer segmentation, job-matching insights, and decision-support tools leveraging GPT, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and Agentic solutions.
Toronto
Spearheaded the architecture and development of Imprimo's technology stack while creating best practices in code quality and security, resulting in a rock-solid startup SaaS platform.
Hired and managed a high-performing scrum team of 6 developers, fostering a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement through agile methodologies.
Core contributor for frontend and backend Typescript applications using React, React Native, Node.js, Next.js, creating 30+ custom UI components and over 40 API endpoints.
Mentorship and Growth: Mentored junior developers, providing guidance and support to foster professional growth and skill development within the team.
Toronto
Led engineering of applications providing copyright API services used by 10+ Canadian and international partners in 3 different industry verticals.
Played a pivotal role in developing event-driven blockchain ledger application, ensuring secure and transparent management of over 200,000 digital rights assets.
Spearheaded the development and incubation of startups, including the flagship Imprimo application, which was later spun out as a successful standalone company.
Managed a team of 7 developers, fostering an agile culture and mentoring junior developers on best practices and cutting-edge technologies.
Implemented modern CI/CD using Bitbucket Pipelines, AWS Kubernetes infrastructure.
Toronto
Led R&D team in developing AI-driven solutions, enhancing business operations efficiency by approximately 35% and boosting business generation using innovative communication tools.
Built serverless applications using AWS, leveraging infrastructure-as-code and event-driven technologies, including AI Python scripts in AWS Lambda for learning algorithms.
Built a comprehensive chat-based application using AWS AppSync and GraphQL, integrated with a React-based frontend, providing a seamless user experience.
Managed and mentored development teams of 4-12 members across Europe and India, promoting agile practices and continuous learning.
Defined and executed technical strategies for AI and consumer-facing products, ensuring alignment with business transformation goals and market demands.
Oshawa
Lectured and individually mentored a class of 30 web developer students, creating all lectures, assignments, and materials.
Toronto
Built website infrastructure on AWS, including load balanced EC2 instances running Nginx, Varnish caching, and Lucene/SOLR search, providing services for millions in global traffic.
Developed SaaS LAMP stack applications, including PHP CMS solutions for business users.
Transforming UI designs into SEO-friendly, semantic, and performant CSS and HTML, using SASS, Bootstrap, and other modern technologies.
Toronto
Developed and designed .NET multi-tiered applications using object-oriented C#, Javascript/AJAX, CSS, HTML for trading risk management SaaS software.
Machine Learning Specialization, Stanford CPD
AWS Certified Developer (DVA)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Agile PMI-ACP (Credits obtained for certification)
Diploma, Web Development
Oshawa, 2004