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I'm a technical leader driven by a relentless commitment to help organizations dramatically elevate their Engineering effectiveness. With deep expertise across SaaS, AI, Security Engineering, and Cryptography, I specialize in building high-performance teams and reshaping Engineering cultures through data, discipline, inspiration and innovation. My experience spans hands-on software development, Agile process design, offshore and local team leadership, and Executive-level strategic alignment. I bring a unique ability to fuse technical excellence with business priorities - driving measurable outcomes and lasting transformation. What I bring to your organization: * Build a high-performance Engineering culture grounded in continuous improvement and data-backed decision-making * Eliminate inefficiencies to run lean, fast, and focused Engineering teams * Revolutionize testing and quality through modern automation and scalable practices * Create transparency and predictability across the product development lifecycle * Harness the power of AI to accelerate product delivery, reduce cycle times, and optimize operations * Establish powerful KPI/OKR frameworks that drive accountability and strategic alignment * De-risk complex technical initiatives by partnering directly with Engineers to ensure clear goals and execution * Build an environment where Engineers feel empowered, focused, and inspired to do their best work If your organization is ready to take Engineering to the next level then let’s talk.
• Spearheaded the architecture and development of a cutting-edge SaaS/AI platform focused on enhancing interview speaking performance. • Implemented a highly scalable AWS serverless design utilizing top-tier AI service providers, optimizing performance and cost-efficiency. • Developed a responsive frontend using ReactJS with TypeScript, ensuring a seamless user experience. • Leveraged C#/.NET framework for backend Lambdas, enhancing system reliability and speed. Key tech: AWS/Azure Cloud, WebAuthn, ChatGPT/Gemini/DeepGram, ReactJS/TS, C#, .NET Framework
Bally’s Corporation is a global casino-entertainment company with a growing omni-channel presence of online sports betting and iGaming offerings. It currently owns and manages 14 casinos across 10 states, a horse racetrack in Colorado and has access to OSB licenses in 16 states. It also owns Gamesys Group plc, a leading, global, online gaming operator, Bally Interactive, a first-in-class B2B2C sports betting platform, Monkey Knife Fight, the fastest growing daily fantasy sports site in North America, SportCaller, a leading, global B2B free-to-play game provider, and Telescope Inc., a leading provider of real-time fan engagement solutions. With approximately 10,000 employees, the Company’s operations, include approximately 15,800 slot machines, 500 table games and 5,300 hotel rooms. Upon closing the previously announced Tropicana Las Vegas transaction, as well as completing the construction of a land-based casino near the Nittany Mall in State College, PA, Bally’s will own and manage 16 casinos across 11 states. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “BALY”. I was the first technical hire in the new Toronto hub for Bally's Interactive, responsible for building all Toronto-based Software Engineering teams. Starting from an empty office, I built 4 teams in the first 9 months - iOS/Android, full stack Java/ReactJS, and full stack ReactJS/NodeJS teams. I established best practices, SMART goals, OKRs, development processes, and a strong continuous improvement team culture within and across all teams. My key strengths at Bally's Interactive have been: to onboard teams, to organize quickly, and to rapidly deliver business value, despite competing in the most challenging environments and technical domains (Java, iOS, Android, ReactJS - all in the Toronto area).
When Henry Ford implemented mass production, concepts like a moving assembly line, interchangeable parts, and purpose-built machine tools changed the entire automotive industry forever. Cars simultaneously became dramatically higher quality and exponentially less expensive. The world hasn’t looked back. Fast-forward 100 years and into the world of large-scale IT Services. Work is still managed on hourly labor rates, there is little true investment in process and tools, and projects are staffed with generalists instead of trained specialists. A wave of outsourcing provided a one-time cost drop due to labor arbitrage, but little improvement has been seen in quality and no ongoing cost improvements. DevFactory takes IT software services out of the dark ages — bringing radical cost savings to large businesses while simultaneously delivering a fundamentally higher quality product. It turns out, it's never a bad idea to use such proven principles as assembly lines, specialized machine tooling, lean manufacturing, kaizen, kanban, continuous integration, and continuous quality. * Led two key global, 100% fully remote teams, comprised of 26 Vice Presidents, 12 Technical Product Managers, Quality Control personnel and Software Engineering Managers. * Led the execution and delivery of cloud architecture specification orders in a large and globally distributed software factory. * AWS Cloud architecture design review and escalation point. * Delivered 250% quarterly throughput increases by collaborating closely with Engineers to optimize processes and ways of working. * Hiring, recruiting, coaching and developing highly technical teams. * Recipient of Elite Manager status from the factory's Manager's University program. * Tools and Technologies: AWS Cloud (S3, EC2, Lambda, Serverless, Glacier, SNS, CloudFront, EBS, Kinesis, VPC, SQS, DynamoDB, RDS, ELB, Route53, Aurora, CloudWatch, and others), Jira, Confluence, Google Docs Automation, Statistics and Data Analytics
ModiFace's story starts in 1999 at Stanford University, where the initial research on automatic face analysis began. This work continued at the University of Toronto from 2001 to 2006, including the development of signal processing algorithms that won a world-wide innovation prize from MIT. In 2006, ModiFace Inc. was born. Today, ModiFace technology is the basis of the leading patent portfolio on skin analysis and facial visualization, and powers over 150 web and mobile apps which have been downloaded nearly 60 Million times. • Led a high performance Engineering team comprised of 25 developers and Directors, distributed across iOS, Android, and Web development divisions. • Reduced project risk by establishing project, scheduling, and estimation best practices. • Sourced and recruited top Engineering talent from Canadian Universities. • Advisor to the executive team in project management, Engineering team development, recruiting, and Agile delivery. • Products & Services: Face AI SDK (real-time facial analysis & feature tracking for video and static images), Beauty AR SDK (real-time video & static image SDK for makeup, hair, & skin simulation), native iOS, native Android