Self driven developer, passionate about backend engineering, selfhosting/homelabs, and digital privacy.
A strong believer in the
Free Software Movement and an outdoors enjoyer. Learn more
about me!
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Postgresql
Nodejs
C
C++
Nginx
Kubernetes
Docker
Rust
Golang
Aws
Mysql
Linux
Bash
Git
JavaScript
Tailwindcss
Python
Postgresql
Nodejs
C
C++
Nginx
Kubernetes
Docker
Rust
Golang
Aws
Mysql
Linux
Bash
Git
JavaScript
Tailwindcss
Python
Postgresql
Nodejs
C
C++
Nginx
Kubernetes
Docker
Rust
Golang
Aws
Mysql
Linux
Bash
Git
JavaScript
Tailwindcss
Python
What I do?
Backend Engineering
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Authentication and authorization systems (e.g., OAuth, JWT)
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RESTful API development and integration
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Performance optimization and scalability solutions
Cloud Deployment
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Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)
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CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation (GitHub Actions)
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Infrastructure setup and management (AWS and self hosting)
Sunshine and Rainbows
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Collaborative and joyful personality
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Enjoy a plethora of activites (rock climbing, reading, camping, etc)
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Very funny (trust me)
Where I've been
Experience
Software Engineer Intern @ OpenText
May 2026 – Present
Waterloo, ON
▹Deploying a Rust log-parsing binary on AWS Lambda, triggered via S3 events, reducing LLM cold start latency from 36 min to 23s with a projected $7k/month in cloud savings
Rust AWS Lambda S3
Software Engineer Intern @ Sun Life
Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
Toronto, ON
▹Implemented Kubernetes pod and resource quotas across namespaces using Helm and Kustomize, reducing compute costs and overprovisioning by 30%
▹Setup infrastructure and IAM roles for ECR lifecycle policies using Terraform, saving $1000/month in server costs
▹Built a containerized Go consumer ingesting Snyk vulnerability findings from a Kafka event stream, enforcing security gates that block vulnerable merges in 500+ PRs/month
Kubernetes Helm Terraform Go Kafka
ML Infrastructure Engineer @ WAT.ai
Sept 2023 – Feb 2025
Waterloo, ON
▹Improved data pipeline efficiency by 40% via GitHub Actions by automating preprocessing of raw data into vectorized format using Python and Pandas
▹Exposed wildfire model as a REST API via AWS API Gateway and Lambda, returning zone-level burn forecasts for 36 regions
Python Pandas AWS GitHub Actions
Platform Engineer Intern @ Questrade
Jan 2024 – Apr 2024
Toronto, ON
▹Orchestrated DAGs in Apache Airflow via GCP Composer to validate data integrity between staging and production BigQuery datasets nightly, reducing data quality issues by 60%
▹Deployed a Kafka cluster to a production environment through Harness, using Kubernetes, Helm, and Makefiles
▹Developed an RBAC system using Django REST API endpoints and a CLI tool, enhancing system security and streamlining user role management
Airflow GCP BigQuery Kafka Django
Software Engineer Intern @ Royal Bank of Canada
May 2023 – Aug 2023
Toronto, ON
▹Spearheaded a project to clone and manage AWS Terraform policies by building CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, with automated testing for security compliance
▹Wrote a Bash script that scrapes SCCM, dispatching weekly server health digests over SMTP, reducing task time by 90%