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Toronto, ON, CanadaFull‑Stack Software Engineer & Data Scientist

Hello Folks! I'm a full-stack software engineer with a cognitive-science background. I like working on products where clean UX meets serious systems: data models, scalable APIs, and cloud infrastructure that stays maintainable.

Core skills
TypeScript/JavaScriptPythonNext.js / ReactAWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, RDS)Amplify (Gen 2)SQL (PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Timescale)DockerCI/CD (GitHub Actions)Data analysis (Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn)LLM/Prompt Engineering
Experience
Lead Software Developer
Aug 2025 – Present
Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
  • Lead developer for Dynamic Datasets in CanDIAPL; architecting large-scale astronomy data infrastructure.
  • Designed petabyte-scale Postgres/PostGIS/Timescale services for cone-search and survey catalog access.
  • Built CI/CD and container deployment patterns; coordinated dev/prod compute workflows at scale.
Software Engineer, R&D
Apr 2023 – Jul 2025
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), University of Toronto
  • Delivered complex AI-driven end-to-end solutions and UX for core operational processes.
  • Led 50+ projects across AWS, Salesforce, Slack, Google Workspace, and Airtable; saved 10,000+ hours.
  • Built tests, maintained databases, produced analytics/reporting, and supported stakeholders at scale.
Data Analyst
Aug 2019 – Apr 2023
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), University of Toronto
  • Developed research-grade data warehouse workflows for entrepreneurship research and program ops.
  • Normalized unstructured venture-finance text into SQL schemas; improved model accuracy by 20%+.
  • Supported time-critical events and stakeholder operations with reliable technical execution.
Software Developer
Jun 2017 – Jun 2019
Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience Lab, Brock University
  • Built and maintained parallel-computing EEG preprocessing pipelines; processed 1,200+ recordings.
  • Mentored researchers across 15+ studies; produced publish-ready figures and analysis scripts.
  • Contributed to EEG standardization research and workshop curriculum development.