Vessel

Co-Founder

Amazon

Software Development Manager

Lightspeed HQ

Previously:
Principal Engineer, Payments
Engineering Manager, Retail Products

Senior Software Engineering Manager

SSENSE

▪ Lead two distinct teams of developers, a data engineer, and a QA to deliver robust, data-driven, customer-facing ecommerce initiatives on two products: the main ecommerce experience (ssense.com), and multi-channel product personalization.

▪ Designed and developed a targeted product discount experience, enabling liquidation of slow-moving stock at healthy margins with little-to-no impact on brand image as a full price luxury retailer.

▪ Work with Product and Data Science to develop and deploy multiple models driving increased customer engagement in ecommerce and marketing channels. Most notably, two models increased every email KPI > 100% in all sales campaigns.

▪ Architect an international multi-edge cache solution integrated entirely in a CI/CD environment. Empowered developers to deploy Cache Infrastructure as Code fully covered by unit and integration tests, while enabling the business to conduct A/B tests at any cache edge. Positively impacted key ecommerce metrics in non-North American markets through decreased time-to-first-byte (TTFB) of nearly 500ms.

▪ Designed a Product Catalog powered by Elastic Search, consolidating the many sources of truth and exposing a single API to power ecommerce and marketing channels with both consistent and highly-available near-realtime catalog information.

Tech Lead, Discovery & Storefront

LXRandCo

▪ Responsible for all ecommerce and omnichannel initiatives across the company. Owned, measured, and optimized customer-facing ecommerce KPIs through careful A/B testing and canary feature rollouts.

▪ Lead the design, development, and release of a Point-of-Sale to over 150 stores, 6 countries, and 4 languages to replace existing off-the-shelf solution. Realized savings of $15,000/mo in licensing while also enabling the business to achieve both BOPIS (buy online, pickup in store)/BORIS (buy online, return in store) and utilize stores as ecommerce fulfillment centers.

▪ Facelifted ecommerce branding and UI/UX through a 12-month collaboration with internationally renowned Montreal-based design agency Sid Lee.

▪ Drive the company through shifting technical and compliance requirements as it transitioned from private to public in less than 6 months (TSX: $LXR).

▪ Lead and mentor a team of developers ranging from junior to senior, including implementing and enforcing highly-productive practices such as: test automation, continuous integration and delivery, moving from manyrepo to monorepo, etc.

▪ Reduced time to 1st production deploy for new employees from many days to ~6 hours; setting up dev, committing, deploying to prod, and monitoring the impact.

▪ Implemented a change data capture (CDC) system to help move business logic out of old, untested legacy ERP into an upgraded system incrementally and confidently. Improved backoffice and fulfillment operations efficiency as a direct result of streamlined process improvement.

▪ Re-architected customer-facing applications with a cloud-first mindset, enabling quick and automated horizontal scaling of all front- and back-end services, adding capacity within 45 seconds of significant traffic change.

Manager of Digital+Ecomm & Tech Lead

▪ Leading a team of developers (senior, intermediate, and junior), QAs, and test automation engineers to deliver tested, resilient, and performant applications and web services.

▪ In charge of maintaining the existing SSENSE.com website as well as many of the underlying services ensuring high availability, performance, and uptime.

▪ Designed a new web application to power SSENSE.com optimized for high volume and low latency using a combination of TypeScript on the server-side and ES6 (+ Vue.js) on the client-side.

▪ Strengthened the businesses confidence in the new web application by introducing a hybrid incremental rollout strategy where both applications run simultaneously in a production environment. This strategy made it possible to increase coverage of the new application in small, reversible, and controlled steps instead of doing a dangerous complete drop-in replacement.

▪ Helped transition a team of 15 PHP developers to new technologies, including TypeScript, Node.js, and Docker.

▪ Introduced network, log, deployment, and application standards that other teams adhered to while designing and developing new services.

▪ Implemented a Continuous Delivery workflow that helped teams go from a slow weekly release process to daily releases they could have more confidence in.

▪ Participated in the attraction, acquisition, and retention of other Node.js and PHP developers to help grow the team.

Lead Web Developer

Nukern

▪ As technical lead and co-founder of a web hosting CRM startup, I implemented the initial client-facing prototype alongside my other two co-founders to pitch customers and investors.

▪ Later developed the prototype into a public beta: a functional data-driven web-application using Knockout.js, consuming a RESTful API written in PHP + Laravel.

▪ Lead the technical direction of the company and helped attract new talent.

Co-Founder, Lead Developer

Luxury2ndhand, Groupe Globale Inc.

▪ Introduced new back-end architecture from scratch that relies on Facebooks latest PHP interpreter, HHVM; decreased average page load times by 4, decreased server load, cleaned up codebase by introducing a modern framework, a popular git workflow, efficient caching mechanisms and bleeding edge web techs.

▪ Re-designed and implemented front-end from scratch using techs like Sass, Knockout.js, and Blade templating.

▪ Increased server capacity and redundancy by introducing dynamic horizontal scaling of web servers.

▪ Created internal and email marketing campaign tools to bootstrap online presence.

▪ Helped drive ecommerce sales by introducing web and email interactivity tracking for increased insights into KPIs.

Developer

Twice failed entrepreneur. Payments, fashion, and ecommerce enthusiast bridging the gap between business and technology.

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