Here is a glimpse of my life,
told through the work I’ve done.

HelloFresh

Senior Frontend Staff Engineer / Accessibility & Inclusive Design Advocate

2023–2025

Accessibility Leadership: Identified and resolved compliance issues; supported European Accessibility Act readiness.
Lifecycle Carbon Visualization (Chapter Day exploration project): Built an internal prototype comparing meal-kit vs. grocery-chain carbon impact, sparking conversation on sustainability metrics.
Corporate Stewardship Awareness: Advocated measurable, transparent approaches to accessibility and sustainability, emphasizing harmony between human and ecological systems.

Team Lead & Staff Frontend Software Engineer

2021–2023

Scaled frontend engineering from 2 to 12 engineers across four teams, establishing hiring processes, mentorship, and accessibility standards.
Partnered closely with design and product to ensure quality, inclusivity, and maintainability in all releases.
Introduced scalable, testable architecture improving reliability and developer experience.

Lead Software Engineer (Contract, Site Reliability Engineering)

2018–2021

Joined during the formation of the SRE team (six months old at the time) to build visibility and reporting infrastructure.
Designed and developed Global Dashboard, a bespoke reporting platform providing secure, filtered visibility into operational data across the bank.
Ensured data isolation to prevent sensitive information from leaking outside the SRE team while enabling safe, organization-wide access to key metrics.

Senior Software Architect

2016–2018

Partnered with data scientists and designers to build early prototypes of a causal-graph visualization tool, translating complex relationships into clear, interactive visuals used for model refinement and product design.
Implemented Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems to perform Named Entity Recognition (NER) and extract features from unstructured and semi-structured data.
Explored emerging NLP technologies such as spaCy and Word2Vec to model relationships between entities — foundational experience that later informed an intuitive understanding of modern LLM-based systems.

Software Engineer (Clinical Decision Support Systems)

2014–2015

Co-authored “Patient-Like-Mine: A Real-Time Visual Analytics Tool for Clinical Decision Support” (IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2015)
Collaborated with physicians and data scientists to develop a real-time visual analytics platform helping clinicians identify similar patient profiles and improve treatment decisions.
Engineered data pipelines transforming HL7 V2 RIM and FHIR medical schemas into hierarchical Elasticsearch documents, enabling high-speed patient similarity searches.

Developer (Data Search & Optimization)

2014–2015

Designed an intelligent matching system to detect names and addresses referring to the same entity, even with different spellings.
Led company-wide Lunch & Learn sessions on Elasticsearch, raising technical literacy and promoting sustainable in-house expertise.
Identified redundancies that eliminated the need for a third-party vendor, saving significant annual costs.

Architect & Lead Developer (Media Archive Re-Architecture)

2012–2014

Re-architected Canada's largest newspaper archive (200 billion+ articles) for modern search performance and scalability — replacing Microsoft SQL Server with Elasticsearch (then in beta, v0.19).
Designed all document schemas, indexing strategies, and search algorithms to optimize retrieval speed and relevance.
Built and led a new engineering team, managing the full hiring, onboarding, and mentoring process.

Technical Director (Digital Media Production)

2007–2008

Led digital production for boutique Toronto agency serving premium clients, including Apple Canada.
Built an interactive replica of the Montreal Gazette for Apple's iPhone launch campaign, ensuring flawless performance on early iOS hardware and non-Flash devices.
Invented and developed “Workflow”, an internal collaboration platform allowing designers and clients to share, comment on, and approve work directly — eliminating email bottlenecks and reducing miscommunication.

Product & Business Data Analyst

2002–2006

Transitioned from Consumer Goods to Lighting division; served as Walmart Category Captain for automotive lighting.
Automated internal reporting processes through custom-built software, reducing manual workload by 18–22 hours per week.
Developed an automated pricing catalogue generator producing branded, customer-specific Excel and PDF workbooks with up-to-date product pricing — transforming a multi-week process into a task completed in minutes.