2009 - 2009In charge of maintaining the hotornot.com and Emoting (moods) facebook properties. Worked with legacy code to enhance the user experience of the facebook applications. Maintained legacy code of the main HotOrNot site and worked on porting it to a custom MVC framework. Redesigned and improved HotOrNot’s main rating algorithm to enhance its responsiveness and make it more user engaging. Wrote utilities in Python for email queue management and data migration.
Syncapse
- Developer
2008 - 2009Participated in and led the development of several software solutions for Syncapse's clients as well as in-house products. Duties included: development, prototyping and researching solutions for technical problems, securing and optimizing sites for high traffic and identifying bottlenecks.
Riptown Media
- Developer
2007 - 2008Worked as part of a team of four developers in an agile environment to develop and maintain the application behind the “battle of the bands” contest leading to one million dollar recording contract.
ATIPS Lab– University of Calgary
- R&D Consultant
2006 - 2007Design and development of a client-server camera simulation environment that renders realistic images for all types of optical paths. Software designed to be run by both students and researchers in the ENEL lab to conduct tests on different camera architectures and assess their performance for such purposes as stereo and micro imaging.
