Employment

Backend Software Engineer: Turo

Nov 2018 - Present

Turo is the largest Peer-to-Peer car sharing platform that operates in the United States, Canada, the U.K. and Germany.

  • Designed, and implemented the back end for Turo Go Digital: a software solution to remotely lock, unlock, and pull state from vehicles
  • Worked with Java, Kotlin, and MySQL
  • Participated in cross functional product teams; collaborate with stakeholders across domains within and external to the company
  • Completed a significant upgrade of Turo’s vehicle delivery product to allow delivery to airports, hotels, and other points of interest
  • Ran interviews for hiring new back end engineers

Backend Software Engineer: Copia

Sept 2017 - Nov 2018

Copia is a software company that aims to reduce hunger and food waste by providing their clients with a managed food recovery solution focused on tax deductions, analytics, waste tracking and corporate social responsibility. This is done by picking a client’s excess up and delivering to a non profit in Copia’s network, all while tracking their donated and disposed of surpluses for tax purposes.

  • Handled software integration with global logistics partner worth $1.5 billion
  • Designed, built, and maintained management system for all daily operations
  • Designed, built and integrated a waste tracking system into a core product
  • Designed, built and maintained an event driven push notification system
  • Designed, built and maintained a driver tracking system
  • Designed graph based recipient matching algorithm to better food to those in need
  • Led transition of primary backend language from Java to Kotlin
  • Led seminars to teach the engineering team more about functional programming
  • Led QA for engineering team and educated engineers on QA best practices
  • Designed, implemented, and managed CI/CD suite for core engineering products
  • Worked with the team to implement an efficient Agile process
  • Project management using Asana and Jira
  • Worked with Java, JUnit, Kotlin, KotlinTest, and AWS

Crowd Testing Management Intern: Testbirds GmbH

May 2016 - Aug 2016

Testbirds is a leading crowd testing provider for your Apps and Websites using real people with real devices in European and North American markets.

  • Managed crowd tests of websites, and applications
  • Planned and ran QA, usability, user experience, and user interface testing
  • Created and ran software tests for clients
  • Worked as part of a Scrum team
  • Wrote test reports and made improvement recommendations based on tester feedback
  • Automated and manual tests of client websites and software

Education

2013 - 2017

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Specialization in Computer Science University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada