Tech Lead

Promoted from Tech Lead to Head of Engineering: own the company’s full technical strategy and engineering leadership, reporting directly to the CEO and the board.

• Absorbed the CTO’s scope after their departure; report engineering activity and technical planning to the board, and act as technical advisor on hiring decisions
• Leading the technical side of ISO 27001 and SOC 2 accreditation preparation, and an AI integration initiative across existing products (GPT via Azure AI Foundry)
• Evolved the AWS infrastructure into full infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK
• As Tech Lead: designed and shipped Spatial Engage, a self-service SaaS mapping/consultation platform (Vue.js/Nuxt3, GraphQL), still live with paying clients; built a GraphQL abstraction layer over a legacy API to ship it without breaking existing systems
• Migrated the entire monolithic infrastructure to a multi-region AWS ECS architecture; built internal tooling that cut production bugs by 98%
• Built, led, and managed an international engineering team across Canada and Australia

Designed and built the entire backend architecture for a live multiplayer mobile game: over one million registered players, with several hundred thousand playing simultaneously at peak.

• Distributed architecture running up to ~30 interconnected Node.js server pods, plus game-server-to-game-server communication via gRPC to host large simultaneous matches
• Inter-pod communication via Redis and event queues, powering live chat, player interaction, friends and clan features
• Led software design, implementation, tests and code review; close collaboration with front-end team and product owner
• Built a full sync system importing major music-label catalogs into the game, with robust error handling and resumability for multi-month import runs

Co-founder and Director of Software Development, concurrently Technology Consultant (interim CTO) for client companies. Built a full two-sided marketplace platform for management consultants and their clients, continuing and expanding a product first prototyped at Present Profit.

• Index and advanced search for consultants; invoicing and time tracking backed by PayPal and Xero integrations, automated payment collection, custom hour-bank tracking
• Automated the international translation of the entire platform
• As Technology Consultant: interim-CTO coaching for R&D management and day-to-day operations of client companies, technology audits, strategy implementation support, public lectures

Co-owner, Web Developer & Team Leader, concurrently Technology Consultant. Recruited and led a developer team, delivering several distinct products over 7+ years, while advising other companies on technology strategy and R&D management as a consultant.

• Data aggregation tool structuring a company’s unstructured sources (calendars, emails, chat, documents) for R&D reporting
• Internal dashboard for tax specialists and accountants: guided questionnaire, automatic data import, automatic report generation with direct import into accounting software
• Early prototype of a consultant marketplace platform, later spun out and fully built as 2PS
• A web/Android service matching business needs to qualified consultants using a weighted keyword-taxonomy matching engine, factoring in geographic proximity and consultant collaboration fit
• As Technology Consultant: prepared technical and financial documentation for government R&D tax credit grants, advised client companies on technology choices and R&D management

Co-founder and Director of Software Development, recruited and led a developer team delivering 3 web applications, plus customer relations and ad partnerships for each project.

• Custom online shop
• Platform for automatic server rental and deployment
• Streaming platform (VOD) reaching over 200K visitors per day around 2008, notably early for video streaming at that scale