About Me

With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, I have managed full-stack teams (C#, React) up to 25 members and built engineering teams from the ground up in fast-paced environments, including private equity-backed firms and companies recognized among Canada’s Fastest-Growing (Growth 500). I specialize in driving high-level strategic planning while ensuring operational efficiency, focusing on empowering teams, implementing effective processes, and navigating high-growth complexities to achieve sustained success. I am a strong advocate for leveraging generative AI, believing it's crucial for unlocking untapped productivity within software development teams, leading to increased developer turn-around on features.

Experience

Equisoft | Manager, Software Development & Acting Solutions Architect

2023 – Present

Equisoft is the world’s top integrator of Oracle’s OIPA platform for life insurance policy management. Worked specifically in the Digital Insurance Tools division, creating tools and services around OIPA.

Achievements:

• Managed a full-stack team (C#, React) of 25 developers, QA, and UX professionals across three distinct products.
• Successfully implemented AI coding tools (Github Copilot, Claude.AI), resulting in improved code quality, faster development cycles and developer happiness.
• Spearheaded the integration of agentic AI capabilities into the flagship product using CrewAI leading to improved life insurance underwriting workflows.
• Successfully transitioned teams from Sprints to Kanban to better align with continuous delivery goals and improve flow efficiency, leading to reduced lead times.
• Defined programming standards and team processes, enhancing code consistency, maintainability and onboarding efficiency.
• These initiatives contributed to a significant increase in team velocity and productivity, estimated at ~20-25% increase feature turn-around.
• Contributed to defining an official product life cycle policy, improving clarity on release readiness.
• Collaborated with Architects to define and implement a CI/CD process on Azure DevOps, achieving SOC2 compliance readiness and enabling faster, more reliable deployments.
• Conducted HR-related tasks including annual performance reviews, goal setting, and capacity planning to ensure team alignment and resource availability.

Woogo Stores | Founder, Consultant

2020 - 2023

Woogo Stores specialized in transforming and modernizing e-commerce platforms using serverless solutions (AWS, Docker, PHP8, Laravel, WordPress), delivering tailored solutions worldwide.

Strategic Project Leadership:

• Spearheaded the migration and launch of multiple high-profile online stores (including Ferrero, Godin Productions Ltd, Pure Sunfarms, CGPI), resulting in enhanced user engagement.
• Directed the development of a scalable Laravel-based platform for e-commerce management, enabling clients to improve their online orders by 30% and reduce cart abandonment rate by 50%.
• Led key client engagements, consistently delivering projects on time and exceeding expectations through effective management of cross-functional teams and subcontractors.

Enterprise-Level Solutions:

• Architected and executed large-scale e-commerce migrations to AWS Lambda serverless infrastructure, optimizing costs by saving hosting costs by 80% and enhancing scalability to handle peak traffic loads.
• Orchestrated WordPress/WooCommerce integrations into Docker environments, providing clients with enhanced operational flexibility and easier environment management.
• Implemented fully automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, reducing deployment times from and improving release reliability.

Innovative Custom Solutions:

• Delivered bespoke Laravel applications with secure payment systems (leveraging Laravel Cashier) and intuitive admin interfaces (using Laravel Nova).
• Designed high-performance, responsive user interfaces using Livewire, Alpine.js, and TailwindCSS.

FlagShip | Vice President of Technology

May 2013 – September 2020

FlagShip is a leading shipping solutions provider, offering comparisons and bookings via Purolator, UPS, FedEx, etc. Built and scaled their core platform.

Platform Design and Development:

• Led the design, implementation, and scaling of the core platform handling 5,000+ shipments daily, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Automated courier invoice reconciliation, drastically improving operational efficiency by reducing manual processing time by 60 hours/week.
• Ensured international shipping compliance through automated customs documentation generation.
• Engineered robust integrations with courier APIs and implemented caching for tracking (up to 20,000 shipments), providing real-time updates and improving customer experience.
• Developed APIs enabling custom integrations and launched Shopify/WordPress plugins, expanding market reach and driving 20% of new customer acquisition YoY.

Team Leadership and Development:

• Built and led a high-performing development team of 10 members, fostering a collaborative environment and achieving a 100% employee retention rate.
• Managed full-cycle recruitment, compensation, performance reviews, and professional development programs, resulting in upskilling the team in key technologies.
• Implemented Agile methodologies, streamlining project execution and improving delivery predictability.

Strategic Decision Making:

• Played a pivotal role in the executive committee, contributing to strategic planning and influencing key decisions through data-driven insights derived from Business Intelligence responsibilities, such as our customer ceiling given the current churn rate.

Project Management:

• Spearheaded the design and implementation of a comprehensive platform catering to thousands of shipments daily.
• Managed the creation of custom integrations, including a Shopify app and a WordPress plugin.

Equisoft | Team Leader

2009-2013

Equisoft specializes in the development of innovative technological solutions for the insurance and finance sectors.

Responsibilities and Achievements:

• Coordinated a team of 6 (programmers, QA, integrator), successfully delivering complex WordPress projects for key clients like Rogers Media.
• Managed project phases, stakeholder communication, and technical explanations, ensuring client satisfaction and on-time deployments.
• Collaborated with IT on production server management (LAMP + Memcached), ensuring high availability for critical applications.
• Architected and designed RESTful APIs to enable integration between legacy and modern systems.
• Designed user workflow interfaces.
• Provided accurate work estimates, contributing to effective project planning and resource allocation.

Education

• B.Sc Economics and Programming - Université de Montréal (2006-2009)