"Building up my niche" — Senior Software Engineer based in Toronto 🇨🇦
Senior Software Engineer, previously worked at OpenText · Caseware International · Microfocus · TCS. I specialise in distributed backend microservices, contract testing, multi-cloud production operations, CI/CD at scale, and AI-assisted developer tooling on the Guidewire platform.
Languages
Java Python Gosu JavaScript SQL
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWS (Lambda, S3) Azure GCP Docker Kubernetes
CI/CD & Testing
TeamCity GitLab CI Karate Playwright NeoLoad
Data
Snowflake PostgreSQL
AI / ML
RAG Pipelines Model Context Protocol (MCP) Anthropic Claude Claude Skills AWS Bedrock Gemini Glean Resolve.AI LLM Agents
Protocols
REST SOAP
I own end-to-end release engineering for 6+ production microservices — coordinating deployments and production cutovers across dev, staging, and prod on AWS.
Some highlights:
- 🧪 Architected a distributed contract-testing framework (Karate) from scratch covering 500+ scenarios across REST and SOAP service boundaries — reduced manual regression effort by 40% and caught contract drift before it reached production
- 🎭 Built a Playwright E2E automation framework from scratch and scaled it across 3 engineering pods, wired into CI as a quality gate on every deploy
- ☁️ Operate multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) maintaining 99.9% uptime SLAs across enterprise environments
- ⚡ Optimized CI/CD pipelines, cutting production deployment times by 25%
- 👨💻 Lead technical onboarding for 4+ engineers as domain expert on the platform's largest service
Internal tooling using Claude Skills and Claude Code subagents to accelerate code review, configuration analysis, and documentation generation across a large microservices fleet.
- Agentic AI systems — multi-agent orchestration, MCP server development, LLM evaluation
- Data Engineering — pipeline tooling and analytics infrastructure
- System Design — scalable distributed architectures for production workloads
- McGill University — Graduate Excellence Fellowship; built jUCMNav, a requirements modeling tool on the Eclipse platform
- Guru Nanak Dev University — Electronics & Communication Systems Engineering
- AWS Cloud Practitioner certified | Guidewire certified (PolicyCenter, Rating, Testing Framework, Cloud Overview)