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<aside> 👨🏻‍💻 I'm a software engineer based in Toronto 🌇 with over 2 years of experience in the software industry

My focus for the past year has been backend development with Ruby on Rails & MySQL. I also have experience with Java, C/C++ & Python.

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Experience

April 2021 - Present | Toronto, ON

Working on refactoring an important monolith system into a more event driven micro-service platform
Leading technical initiatives each quarter to help the team achieve goals. This involves maintaining communication with the stakeholders, creating a list of prioritized tickets, acting as the point person for the initiative, etc.
Participating in Ruby guild to help maintain and improve ruby projects/tools across Flipp
Actively participating in design discussion and investigations related to existing and new systems at Flipp
Always working to improve team processes to help the team become more efficient
Helping new hires onboard by organizing weekly 1-on-1s to get them up to speed at Flipp
Volunteering to help the team with other day-to-day tasks such as running scrum & facilitating grooming

January 2020 - March 2021 | Toronto, ON

Worked on the internal flyer processing system, built on Ruby on Rails - MySQL - Kafka stack, ranging from tackling difficult tasks, handling overnight on call SEV-1 incidents independently, leading design investigations, helping the team deliver every day, and mentoring students on the team.
Used different monitoring tools like Datadog and AWS Cloudwatch for assistance in investigating issues across numerous systems.
Contributed to developing the tools to allow our flyer processing team to outsource one of the tasks thus helping the company achieve significant time and monetary savings.
Involved in design and implementation tasks for refactoring internal task management system to allow users to create custom workflows.
Single-handedly developed a web portal using Ruby on Rails & MySQL to help Flipp employees book a day to come into office. The system is deployed on AWS infrastructure via CircleCI workflow and monitored using Datadog.
Contributed to Ruby and Rails focused guild. Helped maintain open-source Ruby-Kafka framework by fixing bugs.
Volunteer mentor at Elle Hacks representing Flipp.

January 2019 – April 2019 | Toronto, ON

Responsible for updating/writing flyer processors in Ruby to assist operations team in meeting Flyer release deadlines.
Made improvements to the internal flyer processing system, built using Ruby on Rails framework, ranging from investigating image slicing issues to allowing different item types for the internal end user.
Developed Kafka reporting beacons to give business stakeholders increased visibility into internal workflow
Authored numerous Ruby scripts to efficiently gather data from across different MySQL tables and generate reports for the stakeholders.
Followed behavior-driven development by modeling the behavior in the form of RSpec unit tests.
Regularly met with internal clients to gather requirements and present demos.
Followed Agile style programming with biweekly sprints and participated in Agile ceremonies.

May 2018 – August 2018 | Toronto, ON

Worked on developing dynamic web-pages and forms for client facing web-portal using PHP/MySQL/JavaScript and NGINX server
Implemented new features on existing pages to provide clients a feature rich experience
Re-factored legacy code using MVC model to improve loading times and code maintainability
Improved User experience by polishing website’s UI using jQuery
Worked on improving back-end logic that dealt with clients living in different timezones
Participated in peer code reviews and strived to maintain code and adhere to best coding practices

September 2017 - December 2017 | Toronto, ON

Worked on developing web-pages for .NET/C# based application Picasso using XML and SQL that were pushed into production.
Wrote C# functions to implement custom actions in the existing Picasso framework
Worked on various different teams and projects and managed time appropriately to finish tasks before deadlines.
Maintained clear line of communication with project managers and created documentation for future developers.
Followed Agile style programming with a monthly cycle pushing products into production each month.