Work

I am open to new opportunities for work, and currently actively looking. If you have something that you think that I can contribute to then please reach out. Here is my resume.

I have some musts, and some nice to haves about work. A compensation of at least $130k CAD (~95k USD) that fits the must haves. I am willing to forgo some compensation to get some of the nice to haves. That is something to discuss and come to an agreement on.

Must Have/Must Not Have

• Decent benefits. Health, dental, RRSP match, the standard stuff.
• I am not interested in working on cryptocurrency projects. Cryptography in general and security certainly but not cryptocurrencies.
• I am not interested in working in or with generative AI. More classical predictive/pattern recognition projects I would be very interested in.
• Freedom to work on my own projects outside of work. Development for people in my community (for pay if that is what we decide). Make and sell things that I may make.
• No MAANG companies. I have been at Amazon 3 years now and I am looking for a different sort of challenge. All of the large tech companies seem very similar from what I can see so I am looking for something different.

Nice to Haves

• Working on open source software. It is important to me that I be able to share the work that I do.
• Less than standard work week. I do enjoy doing a wide variety of things, and a 4 day workweek would be wonderful to free up more time for learning and other projects.
• Non Java tech stack. Have worked primarily in Java for the last 3 years and have discovered that it does not fit that well with how I like to program. Would ideally like to work in a language that I enjoy working with and am always interested in learning something new.
• Remote or hybrid work. This greatly widens the area of possible employers as I am currently based in Toronto.
• Work where I get to as directly as possible help people. Some of the most fulfillment that I get from working is helping someone directly with a problem. Being able to directly interact with users of the product that I work on is important to me.

Skillset

I would classify myself as a fullstack developer. Frontend work, networking, backend, infrastructure, and database management. My interests are user focussed design, accessibility, sustainability, and security. I prefer using open source and established tools over proprietary or new things. I prefer using programming languages as is without frameworks, ideally minimizing dependencies.

Infrastructure wise working at Amazon has tought me a lot about the AWS set of tools. On my own I am working to learn more open alternatives for infrastructure management (docker and ansible currently, kubernetes and opentofu next). I run my own server (both a physical one at home and in the cloud) to host services that I use and learn + experiment.

Most of my daily computing is done on the Linux operating system for the last 5 years. This useful in that I am comfortable working on servers (most of which run Linux). For work I have been using a Mac, so my comfort on that OS has grown significantly. Have not used Windows in a few years, last used in Windows 10.

Familiar with the standard Microsoft 365 suite of products (excel, powerpoint, word) and open source alternatives through LibreOffice.

Programming Languages

• Java: Have been working professionally in Java for 3 years now, very comfortable with the language
• Javascript/Typescript: Have been working professionally in JS/TS for 2 years now, very comfortable with the language
• Rust: Has been my primary language for personal projects for a few years now. Would love to use it professionally
• Go: Currently learning
• Python: Language that I started learning with, have not used regularly in a few years but familiar enough to get back up to speed quickly