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Experience

Where I’ve worked.

Four roles in production software, financial systems, AI data, and QA.

Roles

Roles

  1. Apr 2026 – Sep 2026

    Richmond Hill, ON

    Software Developer

    Invision Custom Solutions · Client: Combined Metal Industries (CMI)

    • Built and deployed a production React and TypeScript dashboard monitoring live weights for 61 scale-equipped bins across 20+ customer sites, ingesting CMI's 60-second scale feed (~90K readings/day) and raising threshold, SLA, and emergency alerts that drive truck dispatch.
    • Engineered dispatcher workflows for acknowledgment, escalation, truck dispatch, team comments, and role-based access across 3 user roles and 4 SLA tiers; added audit logging and CSV reporting, backed by 43 automated tests.
    • Built a restart-safe ingestion pipeline that replayed 304K production readings in ~27 seconds and quarantined 5 classes of invalid sensor data to prevent bad readings from triggering dispatch alerts.
    • Designed and shipped an internal QR asset-tracking app in Microsoft Power Apps backed by SharePoint, letting staff scan assets, validate serial numbers, and log asset movement in real time.
    ReactTypeScriptNode.jsSQL ServerPower AppsSharePoint
  2. Jun 2025 – Apr 2026

    Software Developer, Financial Systems

    Invision Custom Solutions · Product: InvisOne

    • Built core accounting and treasury modules for an AI-enabled, multi-entity business management platform spanning 11 modules and 201 submodules: double-entry ledger postings, accrual and period-close workflows, and trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow reporting across 86 report definitions.
    • Implemented financial controls: a centralized posting engine used by 31 services, SHA-256-chained immutable audit trails, and segregation of duties across 1,018 role-based permission scopes with approval workflows on 77 record types.
    • Developed AI-assisted cash and exposure tracking across 31 currencies with realized and unrealized FX gains and tax handling from 53 country presets, and built data-integrity controls for AI-driven financial pipelines: CSV import, duplicate detection, and opening-balance loading across 15 record types.
    Accounting & treasuryDouble-entry ledgerMulti-currencyAudit trailsData integrity
  3. Sep 2024 – Jun 2025

    AI Data & Validation

    Invision Custom Solutions

    • Generated and validated large-scale datasets for model training and fine-tuning in Python, designing test cases and running error analysis to catch labeling and output defects before they reached training.
    • Integrated new data sources into Python ingestion pipelines with validation and preprocessing logic that reduced pipeline failures.
    • Delivered production code and documentation for BookedYou.com (launched) and Notepress.ai (in development).
    PythonData pipelinesTest design
  4. Feb 2024 – Aug 2024

    Richmond Hill, ON

    QA / Software Support (Part-time)

    United Canada Inc.

    • Tested and debugged e-commerce features, reproducing customer issues from production logs and verifying fixes.
    • Authored and executed test cases for the browse, cart, checkout, and payment flows; documented defects and drove them to resolution with cross-functional teams.
    QAE-commerceProduction debugging

Education

Education

Sep 2025 – May 2030

Waterloo, ON

Bachelor of Software Engineering

University of Waterloo · currently 2A

Software coursework

  • Programming Principles
  • Data Abstraction and Implementation
  • Methods of Software Engineering
  • Digital Circuits
  • Foundations of Sequential Programs*
  • Digital Computers*
  • Logic and Computation*

Mathematics coursework

  • Calculus 1–3
  • Linear Algebra
  • Honours Algebra
  • Statistics for Software Engineering*

* in progress, Fall 2026

Skills

Skills

Agentic development
Agentic codingMulti-agent workflowsClaude Code, Codex, CopilotAI-assisted development
Languages
C++CPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLHTML/CSS
Frameworks & Platforms
ReactReact Native (Expo)Node.jsElectronTailwind CSSChrome ExtensionsSupabase (PostgreSQL)SQLiteREST APIs
Tools & Cloud
GitGitHub ActionsVercelAzureMicrosoft Power AppsSharePoint

Everything above appears in shipped work. Details in the résumé.