Senior Software Engineer and Head of Engineering with 8+ years of experience scaling platforms from zero to millions of users and over 1 billion assets generated. Deep expertise across the full product lifecycle — from internal developer tooling and technical architecture to production-grade AI features serving tens of thousands of daily requests.
Skills
AWS
Cloudflare
React
TypeScript
Next.js
RDBMS
AI/LLM Integration
Node.js
NestJS
AI Workflow Adoption
Team Leadership & Mentorship
Experience
- Led the Wix.com integration end-to-end, collaborating directly with their team to deliver a full production release within one month — setting a record for the fastest partner integration at the time.
- Designed and implemented a dynamic prompt rendering engine for LLMs, enabling non-technical editors to maintain and deploy prompt libraries with parameter injection. Currently serves tens of thousands of requests daily with zero ongoing engineering effort to ship new AI experiences.
- Scaled the platform from zero to millions of users and over 1 billion logos generated while maintaining low infrastructure costs and security best practices.
- Architected a server-side event ingestion and routing API for analytics, handling sustained throughput across several third-party platforms while retaining full control over data flow.
- Completely overhauled the existing platform for agent automation, developing a fully automated system to go from a ticket to a preview build using skills, custom agents, and MCP.
- Fostered an engineering culture of continuous learning and experimentation. Drove adoption of AI-powered workflows across the team, increasing sprint velocity by 40% while reducing alerts and bug tickets.
Personal Projects
- Manage a 50TB Unraid home server running 20+ Docker containers (including self-built applications Spectarr and Crease), remotely accessible via VPN with custom DNS (*.harebear.ca).
- Built Spectarr, an *arr-ecosystem application that uses AI to analyze photos of physical media and match them against a home media server library.
- Built Crease, a local-first note-taking application modeled after Notion, featuring a "Write with AI" capability.
- Designed a self-hosted LLM system for running models such as QwenCoder and Gemma on personal hardware, accessible remotely over VPN via OpenWebUI.
Education
British Columbia Institute of Technology
Diploma, Computer Systems Technology, Web and Mobile
2016 - 2018
Graduated with Distinction
Completed a 1-month practicum project to build a prototype logo generator, which led directly to being hired and continuing to develop the V1 of LOGO.com.
Interests
- Avid reader and audiobook listener.
- Completed both the Juan de Fuca and West Coast Trail — over 100 km along the west coast of Vancouver Island.
- Enjoy building things: a home server, a custom drone, and countless side projects.
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