Currently Head of Customer Engineering, Canada at AWS Canada helping public sector customers innovate for their citizens. I run a team of forward-deployed software engineers and an investment program focused on solving Canada's toughest challenges.
Previously co-founded vessel.co, ran engineering teams at Lightspeed, SSENSE, and LXRandCo, and developed for now-defunct Infantry Online.
After two failed ventures and one successful IPO of an omnichannel retailer, I've developed deep expertise in ecommerce, retail consumer, and payments industries. I help start-ups in similar industries with product development, technical direction, and growth. I reply to email and LinkedIn.
I spend my free time advising pre-seed startups on product development and technical direction, teaching young kids how to code, and criticizing software bloat that plagues most companies today.
Where problems that would've been caught at compile time now arrear at runtime, feature velocity is exchanged for defects, and every production incident turns into a murder mystery with less-than-useless stack traces. Welcome to Microservices.
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