I'm a Full-Stack Software Developer based in Toronto 🇨🇦 with expertise in early-stage startup environments.
I enjoy building developer-centric tools, optimizing systems for performance and cost, and diving deep into databases, backend architecture, and API integrations.
- 🌱 Currently learning: database internals by building a SQL database from scratch
- 💡 Recent projects: SQL Database (WIP)
- 🎯 Goal: contribute to early-stage startups and open-source projects
- ⚡ Fun fact: I care deeply about animal rescue, and have helped find forever homes for over 200 cats through my local rescue.
Languages & Frameworks: Python · TypeScript · PHP · JavaScript · React.js · Flask · Django
Infrastructure & Databases: Docker · AWS (Lambda, S3, API Gateway, CloudFormation) · MySQL · PostgreSQL · SQLite
Practices: Test-Driven Development · CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI) · API Development & Integration · Agile
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🤖 Software Developer @ Teleport (YC S15)
- 🧠 Spearheaded the design and development of SupportBot, an in-house technical support automation tool built in Python and hosted on AWS.
- ⏱ Improved First Response Time by ~20% by auto-generating CRM tickets for Slack support requests.
- 🧰 Prevented 100+ monthly SLA breaches and reduced Average Resolution Time by ~10% by integrating Salesforce, Zendesk, Slack, and PagerDuty through APIs.
- 💰 Strategically minimized cloud costs by adopting AWS pay-as-you-go services and configuring usage alerts.
- 🧪 Maintained 95% unit test coverage to ensure 99.99% uptime and no workflow disruptions.
- Tech: Python · AWS Lambda · API Gateway · CloudWatch · CloudFormation · Docker · GitHub · Postman · TDD
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⚡ Full-Stack Developer @ Daakor (DMZ @ TMU)
- ⚡ Reduced API response time by 95% by introducing asynchronous processing with RabbitMQ.
- 🚀 Increased deployment speed by 80% and cut CI/CD costs to zero by replacing the old pipeline with CircleCI.
- 📈 Boosted pricing funnel conversion by ~10% by launching 3 pricing tiers from prototype to production.
- 🧭 Improved team velocity by ~35% through Agile practices — sprints, retrospectives, tech specs, and code reviews.
- Tech: TypeScript · PHP · Angular · SQL · AWS LightSail · S3 · Docker · MySQL · RabbitMQ · Figma · CI/CD
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🧰 Full-Stack Developer @ Hatchways (YC S19)
- Built real-time messaging (Flask-SocketIO) and S3 file handling features for technical assessment platforms.
- 📁 Implemented file upload, download, and viewing features using Amazon S3.
- Tech: JavaScript · Python · React · Flask · AWS · Docker · PostgreSQL
- SQL Database (WIP) — Learning database internals by building a SQL database from scratch.
- Coding Problem Sets — My growing collection of LeetCode & algorithmic problem solutions.