full-stack software engineer

Building software that solves real problems.

I design and maintain production applications, backend services, data pipelines, and responsive interfaces that make complex operational work easier.

Comfortable across the full stack.

Software engineer with 7+ years of experience building production data-intensive applications, asynchronous processing architectures, backend systems, data workflows, and responsive web applications.

Experience spans government, startup, and academic research environments. Fully bilingual in English and French.

Selected work

Professional / Public Context CRTC

SRC / Spam Reporting Centre

Production Django application for ingesting, enriching, classifying, storing, and searching millions of structured and unstructured reports.

Role
full-stack development, data workflows, reliability, stakeholder features
Scope
internal production system, public program context only
public context
  • Django
  • RabbitMQ
  • Celery
  • MySQL
Professional / Business Analytics ESDC

ArcGIS Analytics Applications

ESDC core services data project.

Role
application maintenance, analytics support, cloud migration contributions
Scope
professional work without public code or live demo
related experience
  • ArcGIS
  • Azure
  • Automation
  • SQL
Personal / Live Site Open

INCA Trail Guide

Public web guide project for presenting Inca Trail information in a focused, readable interface.

  • Web
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Guide

Tools

Professional Experience

Feb 2021 - Jun 2021 Mar 2022 - Present Government

Full-Stack Software Developer | CRTC

Developed and maintained a production Django application responsible for processing millions of spam reports. Built asynchronous RabbitMQ and Celery data pipelines, backend services, SQL structures, Elasticsearch indexes, and operational workflows for high-volume analysis.

2026 Consulting

Technical Consultant | McGill Psychedelics and Contemplation Lab

Volunteer web development consultant for a multidisciplinary research lab studying non-ordinary states of consciousness, contemplative practices, and novel clinical interventions.

lab page
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022 Government

Programmer Analyst, Application Development | ESDC

Developed and maintained data-driven ArcGIS applications for business analytics teams. Contributed to cloud migration initiatives and process automation.

Oct 2018 - Nov 2019 Startup

Software and Hardware Engineer | CCX Technologies

Developed frontend features, backend functionality, testing infrastructure, and internal tools supporting cybersecurity and networking product development.

2014 - 2016 Research

Research Assistant | University of Ottawa SUNLAB

Built lab tools, maintained a solar tracking test site, analyzed a five-year solar radiation database, contributed to a published paper, and presented findings at Photonics North 2016.

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