Lead Software Engineer | 8 Years Experience
Full-stack enterprise delivery and AI platforms.
Currently a System Development Specialist at the City of Toronto. Seeking roles involving high-stakes architecture, AI/LLM integrations, and robust team leadership.
System Development Specialist
- -Won 1st place in the City of Toronto Data & AI Innovation Challenge for the Toronto Open Data Assistant, a retrieval-augmented prototype (Ollama + vector search) for natural-language exploration of municipal open data.
- -Lead developer on an end-to-end enterprise business application (Java, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, WebSphere) with multi-role workflows, attachments, payments, and REST integrations; applies WCAG 2.x AA accessibility practices.
Lead Software Developer
- -Built RESTful Java Spring services with Azure AD authentication for an analytics platform serving 1M+ active users.
- -Engineered WebSocket connection pooling in a clustered environment handling 100K+ concurrent connections, cutting front-end data-load latency by 80%.
- -Partnered with IBM's PSIRT security team to investigate and resolve 100+ vulnerabilities, including Log4j, while maintaining 98% test coverage and a zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline.
Full Stack Developer / Release Engineer
- -Ran the quarterly release pipeline to the Eclipse Marketplace and Sonatype Nexus (Maven, Gradle, Jenkins) with zero deployment failures.
- -Built internal Python/React operational dashboards that cut on-call incident-resolution time by 35%.