A career spanning the early days of the internet to the age of AI — from DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 to large language models and cloud-native architecture.

Languages & Frameworks

  • Go — systems-level services and APIs
  • Java — enterprise applications with Spring and Hibernate
  • Ruby on Rails — rapid product development
  • JavaScript — broad experience across the ecosystem including jQuery and most modern frameworks

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Google Cloud Platform — production workloads, managed services
  • AWS — broad service experience across compute, storage, and networking
  • Bare Metal — hardware provisioning, OS-level configuration
  • Low-Level Networking — TCP/IP, routing, switching, protocol internals
  • High Availability & Horizontal Scaling — distributed systems design, load balancing, failover strategies
  • Performance Analysis — profiling, bottleneck identification, capacity planning
  • Email Deliverability — SPF, DKIM, DMARC, reputation management, deliverability tooling

Databases

  • MySQL — relational schema design, query optimization, replication
  • PostgreSQL — advanced features, performance tuning

Operating Systems

  • Linux — Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Slackware
  • BSD — FreeBSD, OpenBSD
  • Windows — Windows 3.11 through modern — including server environments
  • macOS — development and administration
  • DOS 6.22 — yes, really

DevOps & Tooling

  • CI/CD — continuous integration and deployment pipeline design and operations
  • Git, GitHub, GitLab — version control, code review workflows, repository management
  • Jira — project tracking, sprint management, backlog grooming

AI & Emerging Technology

  • Local LLMs — running and fine-tuning models on local infrastructure
  • LLM Workflows — prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, AI-assisted development

Leadership & Process

  • Technical Hiring & Team Building — full-cycle recruiting, interview design, onboarding, culture
  • SDLC Process Building — designing and implementing development lifecycles from scratch
  • Scrum & Agile — sprint planning, retrospectives, velocity tracking
  • Waterfall — structured project delivery for regulated or fixed-scope environments
  • Legacy Code — modernization strategies, risk management, incremental refactoring

Funding & Compliance

  • SR&ED — Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credit preparation and documentation
  • IRAP — NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program project scoping and reporting