Summary

• Excited about building platforms, services, and systems to enable great products
• Significant experience with C++, Java, Kotlin, Rust, Bash, Gradle, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and many other languages
• Over 10 years of experience working remotely and in globally distributed teams
• Extremely comfortable with async communication and working in the open-source world

Work Experience

• Cash App - Remote
  

  Software Engineer, Developer Experience

  (Jan '21 - current)

  • Developed expertise in the Gradle build system and supported hundreds of developers and repositories with build tooling and build performance
  • Maintained and built out tooling to aid development of microservices deploying to Kubernetes, primarily in Kotlin but also Golang
  • Helped transition hundreds of repositories and services into a monorepo with golden paths and significantly improved development experience


• Mozilla Corporation - Toronto, Ontario and Remote
  

  Staff Software Engineer, Platform Graphics Team	(Mar '18 - Nov '20)
  Software Engineer, Platform Graphics Team	(Oct '13 - Feb '18)
  Software Engineer, Mobile Platform Team	(Oct '11 - Sep '13)

  • Architected and implemented many key features of the Gecko rendering engine's "Asynchronous Panning and Zooming" module; official module owner
  • Worked on significant portions of code integration, infrastructure, and tooling for bringing the Rust-based WebRender graphics engine to Firefox
  • Helped fix myriad Firefox infrastructure, build system, and product regressions
  • Inherited and continued development on Searchfox, the primary source code browser for the Firefox code base, mostly in my spare time
  • Contributed to many upstream open source projects (e.g. pdf.js, git2-rs) across a variety of languages and ecosystems as needed


• Research in Motion, Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario
  

  Software Developer, Browser Development

  (Jun '07 - Jun '10)

  • Architected the standards-compliant Mango rendering engine for the BlackBerry browser (shipped on BlackBerry OS 4.6 - 5.0)
  • Implemented various components of the Mango engine, including the DOM, parsers, and Javascript bindings
  • Improved reliability of device code by developing various automated test frameworks and static analysis tools

Co-ops and Internships

• Software DeveloperSlipStream Data, Inc. - Waterloo, Ontario(Sep - Dec '06)
• Software Engineer, AdWords FrontendGoogle Inc. - Mountain View, California(Jan - Apr '06)
• Software DeveloperSlipStream Data, Inc. - Waterloo, Ontario(May - Aug '05)
• Software Developer, J9 Virtual MachineIBM Canada, Ltd. - Ottawa, Ontario(Sep - Dec '04)
• Junior Software Developer, Systems GroupResearch In Motion, Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario(Jan - Apr '04)
• Junior Software Developer, Systems GroupResearch In Motion, Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario(May - Aug '03)

Formal Education

• Master of Mathematics (Research Paper Option) in Computer Science (Networking and Distributed Systems Group), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Sep '10 - Aug '11
• Bachelor of Software Engineering in Honours Co-op Software Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Sep '02 - Jun '07.