Hi! I'm
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Software Engineer from Toronto 🍁
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Pre-seed Startup

2024 - Ongoing
Founding Software Engineer
We're crafting a better way to help job seekers provide for themselves and their family.
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Taking a Break

2023 - 2024
Human
Currently spending quality time with friends and family, reconnecting with my roots, and soul searching...
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Uberflip

2021 - 2023
Software Engineer
Uberflip is a Content Marketing Platform that drives business growth by empowering Marketing, Content Creation and Sales teams.

 I worked with the Engineering team and Product Managers to improve product quality and deliver new valuable features that solidified Uberflip as an industry leader.

 - R&D of new product features
 - Investigate & resolve issues in legacy codebase
 - Enforce product quality through code reviews and unit/integration testing
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EdTech

2017 - 2021
Full Stack Developer
Returned to TakingITGlobal, and by extension the tech industry, full time in 2017. I was also involved with my alma mater and other EdTech organizations.
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Main Street

2014 - 2017
Exile
A 3-year hiatus from the tech industry. As great as my internship was, I was still on the fence about pursuing a full-time programming career.
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TakingITGlobal

2014
Web Developer Intern
My first big boy tech gig. And where I met some of my closest friends.

Education

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University of Toronto

2013
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)

Skills

TypeScript
PHP
Python
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
Nest
Laravel
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
Next.js
React
Tailwind CSS
Node.js
AWS
Vercel
Docker
Git
GitHub Actions
The Lab

Experiments

A curated list of past & current projects

Gaeldle

A Wordle clone for casual and hardcore gamers alike! Inspired by Gamedle, Wiki Trivia, the Higher Lower Game, and all the other Wordle spinoffs.

Node.js
Typescript
Next.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
Docker
Amplify
React
Tailwind CSS
Website
Source

Uberflip Pages

An all-in-one page builder and page management tool. I was responsible for the Cloudinary integration and setting up single sign-on authentication.

Node.js
Nest
Typescript
Next.js
MongoDB
Prisma
React
Tailwind CSS
Jest
SAML SSO
Website

My Website

A long-overdue redesign. I'm quite satisfied with how this 2024 iteration turned out. Now I just need to settle on what tool to use for the blog section.

Node.js
Typescript
Next.js
React
Tailwind CSS

Smash Quiz

An early attempt at building an SPA with React, that I later migrated to Next.js. The perfect project for learning and trying out new things.

Node.js
Nest
Typescript
Next.js
MongoDB
RabbitMQ
React
Tailwind CSS
Media Downloader

Media Downloader

A desktop frontend for the yt-dlp CLI tool. Because I could never remember the few feature flags I use. Building stuff closer to the metal was refreshing, but friends don't let friends code in Rust 😒

Rust
Tauri
Typescript
Next.js
React
Tailwind CSS
Source
Download
Tunes
Contact

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