Resume

AI-Driven Engineering Leadership | Delivery & Team Acceleration | AI-Assisted Development Practices

Professional Experience

TrustFlight Inc, Vancouver — Director of Engineering/Fractional CTO

Dec 2023 - Feb 2026

  • Spearheaded enterprise-wide AI transformation across tooling, processes, and product features, implementing MCP and agentic systems
  • Architected an AI-assisted technical document authoring system — agentic workflows for intelligent content generation, versioning, and automated merging, reducing manual effort by 75%
  • Collaborated with AI research team to design autonomous decision-making agents for complex aviation document processing
  • Reduced team delivery cycle time by 20% through AI coding tooling and process optimization
  • Owned quarterly capacity planning with 90% estimation accuracy across 4 teams
  • Led 4 distributed engineering teams across 2 time zones (8-hour difference)
  • Recruited and built 2 new engineering teams, reducing time-to-hire by 40%
  • Implemented AI-driven development practices: automated testing, code generation, intelligent debugging
  • Established scalable organizational structures improving team velocity by 35%
  • Directed multi-vendor collaborations achieving 99.99% uptime SLA

Senior/Staff Software Engineer — TrustFlight Inc, Vancouver

Aug 2022 - Dec 2023

  • Optimized data loading performance by 1000% (30s → 3s) through intelligent caching and API optimization
  • Led design and delivery of aviation technical document versioning system serving 5,000+ daily users
  • Architected version tracking algorithms reducing processing time by 75% and error rates by 90%
  • Built automated testing infrastructure achieving 95% code coverage, reducing production bugs by 60%
  • Optimized CI/CD pipeline reducing deployment time from 2 hours to 15 minutes
  • Mentored 6 junior engineers with 100% promotion rate within 12 months
  • Drove microservices adoption across 4 product teams

Klktn Inc, Vancouver — Technical Lead

Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Pioneered WebAssembly (WASM) reverse engineering for browser-side parallel image manipulation, 300% performance improvement
  • Architected blockchain NFT minting/redeeming system processing 10,000+ transactions daily
  • Led JavaScript to TypeScript migration across 50,000+ lines of code, reducing runtime errors by 80%
  • Built blockchain event aggregation service handling 1M+ events with 99.9% reliability

Convertus Digital, Vancouver — Director of Engineering/Senior Technical Lead

Feb 2020 - Apr 2021

  • Orchestrated digital transformation from marketing to software engineering organization, increasing technical capability by 400%
  • Directed engineering for SaaS platform supporting 1,000+ websites with 99.5% uptime
  • Built and scaled teams from 3 to 12 engineers, improving delivery velocity by 250%
  • Achieved SOC 2 compliance and reduced production incidents by 70%

Tasktop Technologies, Vancouver — Software Engineering Manager

May 2017 - Apr 2019

  • Directed 8-person engineering teams with 95% sprint completion rate
  • Reduced deployment time by 60% and improved system reliability by 40%
  • Hired 5 engineers, mentored 12 co-op students with 90% conversion rate

Tasktop Technologies, Vancouver — Team Lead/Senior Software Engineer

May 2019 - Feb 2020

  • Led Agile transformation improving team velocity by 150%, reducing time-to-market by 45%
  • Pioneered data-driven decision-making tools improving project predictability by 80%
  • Achieved 90% automated test coverage and 99.9% deployment success rate

Vandrico Solutions Inc, Vancouver — Co-Founder & Lead Developer

May 2013 - May 2017

Co-founded enterprise software for digitizing industrial operations. Built Connected Worker Platform serving 2,000+ industrial workers with 99.8% uptime. Co-created Canary real-time platform processing 1M+ data points daily.

Leadership Skills

  • Strategic Leadership: Cross-functional team coordination, organizational development
  • Team Building & Mentorship: Hands-on technical leadership, engineering best practices, SaaS delivery

Technical Skills

  • AI & ML: Python, LLM Integration, Agentic Systems, MCP, Neural Networks
  • Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python, React, Angular, Node.js, NestJS, Microservices
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (CDK), GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless, CI/CD, IaC
  • Databases & Emerging Tech: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, WebAssembly, Blockchain, Real-time Systems

Education

University of Victoria — B.A. Computer Science and Japanese

Languages

English, Mandarin, Japanese