Howard – Python, React, AWS

It's a digital innovation consultancy that helps enterprises with AWS cloud transformation, app modernization, and AI-driven solutions.

• Led development for a cybersecurity project using AWS services and Python to proactively scan and remediate plain text secrets found in internal systems, reducing security incidents by 25%.
• Managed the delivery roadmap alongside internal stakeholders.
• Architected and implemented a cloud native solution.
• Advanced the CI/CD pipeline to incorporate AWS CDK pipeline support.

It's a live team coaching company that runs small-group sessions led by expert engineers to close individual skill gaps and deliver team-level strategic outcomes.

• Facilitated coaching sessions in Typescript and Python.

It's Canada’s oldest English-language public university, offering over 75 undergraduate and graduate programs.

• Taught undergraduate courses on Mobile Application Development and Computer Architecture and Organization for around 50 students.
• Updated lecture and lab materials to use the latest trends and patterns for an enhanced experiential learning experience.
• Assisted students with scoping and implementation of Android app project.
• Provided guidance and support to Teaching Assistant.

It's a SaaS company that provides an AI-powered quality and compliance management platform for life sciences, medtech, and pharma to streamline audits and meet FDA/ISO requirements.

• Directly managed a remote-first distributed team by providing regular 1 on 1s, career coaching, and performance evaluations.
• Executed and delivered new platform features and integrations which drove annual recurring revenue from 4M to 20M.
• Led hands-on project work to enhance customer onboarding through a self-service portal, removing the need for the support team to manually intervene.
• Reduced manual effort of document migration into the system by over 60 percent by automating manual scripts and processes.
• Worked closely with the customer success team to reduce time to resolution of customer issues from days down to hours.
• Assisted in building and recruiting the North American team of engineering managers, developers, and testers.
• Collaborated with engineering and product leadership to groom, prioritize, and refine the long-term roadmap and backlogs.
• Provided coaching and mentoring for developers, QA, Ops, and support on best practices and technology.

It's a care coordination platform that connects older adults, their caregivers, and service providers.

• Mentored and managed a small team of local and offshore developers until project funding ended.
• Designed and implemented new features and enhancements using Flask with Python and React running in AWS.
• Worked directly with the CEO to define the tech, mobile, and cloud adoption strategies.

It's a cloud-based vision recognition system.

• Provided direct mentoring and coaching to development and QA resources.
• Designed and implemented features for a cloud based vision recognition system using Python and React.
• Supported operations with deployments and defect fixes for in production applications.
• Assisted the entire development team through code review participation and best practice discussions.

It's a company providing audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax services to public and private clients across industries.

• Provided technical direction on internal and client focused projects by overseeing technical and business resources delivering best fit client solutions.
• Worked to build team capacity by providing coaching and mentoring for resources at all levels with soft skill development and enhancement of leadership skills.
• Managed line oversight for project teams up to 10 resources delivering Python API backends and React frontends using AWS cloud services.
• Developed training materials and starter kits related to standardized serverless architecture and deployments.
• Worked closely with the Director of Technology to define technology plans and direction.
• Assisted in grooming a technical backlog of items for internal initiatives and training.
• Contributed to a dedicated team focused on improving and refining the project bid process.
• Coordinated knowledge sharing and identification of best practices by leading project lead meetings.
• Actively contributed to company initiatives for code craftsmanship, development process, and internal developer grooming and advancement.
• Assisted in the recruiting process through interviews of new hires and coop students and development of interview coding exercise.
• Participated in presentations with local university groups.
• Communicated and enforced coding and technology standards.

It's a company providing audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax services to public and private clients across industries.

• Provided technical expertise and training to client resources, along with ongoing mentoring and leadership to team members and co-op students.
• Assisted in high-level estimates, design, and architecture review for new and existing projects.
• Served in a technical oversight role for a microservice application.
• Designed and implemented a new Java and Angular web application using test-driven development for all components.
• Implemented APIs using Spring with Java and Django with Python.
• Established code quality and coverage reporting metrics for use in client reports.
• Set up and deployed database and application components using Amazon Web Services.