Andy – Node.js, Python, Typescript

A video doorbell company that holds key video doorbell IP and has produced devices for over a decade. Its “Gen5” platform is a full redesign of the stack, covering firmware, backend, and mobile apps.

• Owned the architecture redesign of the Gen5 platform across firmware, backend, and EC2, working extensively in Node.js along with Rust, Erlang, and mobile apps, scaling it to 1M+ devices and cutting infrastructure costs by 80% while maintaining 99.9% uptime.
• Built and deployed an internal AI-driven conversational copilot that became the main tool for Customer Success, reducing average ticket resolution time from days to minutes.
• Engineered embedded AI/ML for resource-constrained IoT edge devices, using weight pruning and quantization on ONNX/TinyML models for low-latency, on-device inference on bare metal.
• Managed AWS infrastructure on ECS, Fargate, ECR and EC2, working extensively in Node.js along with Rust, Erlang and Elixir.
• Contributed to doorbell firmware running Buildroot embedded Linux on ARM and MIPS, and to the Android apps that control the devices.
• Managed relationships with distributed development teams across 6+ countries, providing technical oversight, code reviews, and guidance for outsourced work.

A boutique technical talent agency.

• Delivered 12+ client engagements end-to-end across mobile, web, and infrastructure, consistently on time and within scope.
• Built iOS and Android apps with Cordova and React Native (Expo).
• Extended several engagements beyond their original scope into DevOps, monitoring, and infrastructure scaling.

A job board startup focused on entry-level jobs.

• Helped lead the architecture and implementation of the full-stack platform, from backend to frontend.
• Helped re-architect the platform to make it much more scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant.
• Took on leadership and management responsibilities and helped grow the business side of the role, gaining a view of the technical side of the company’s operations as a whole.

A digital agency serving major consumer brands. Projects ranged from simple social media activations to complex “connected object” hardware.

• Maintained and enhanced McDonald’s award-winning “Our Food, Your Questions” campaign.
• Built digital campaigns for McDonald’s, Subaru, Canadian Tire, and Google.
• Delivered social activations and IoT connected-object installations using Arduino and Electric Imp.
• Was converted from contract to full-time based on delivery.

An embedded commenting system startup.

• Worked across front-end JavaScript, back-end systems (PHP frameworks, Node.js, and Python), AWS cloud operations, and QA automation.
• Wrote and documented the login integration and data migration pipeline for users and comments, used in many large migrations.
• Migrated the CBC.ca comment system to Viafoura.
• Built a basic Jenkins CI system.