Technical Lead
DoneStreet ⦁ 2018-Present

• As the technical Lead at DoneStreet, Alex is responsible for managing multiple client projects including hands on coding as well as project management and team leadership
• Alex is also the lead technical screener responsible for the oversight of technical talent testing and processes
• A couple of Alex's client projects include:

     Aurora Labs (Idex) ⦁ 2018-2020

• Building and supporting a large-scale, high-throughput crypto currency trading platform. My responsibilities included working on the public REST API (express.js), Websocket API, React frontend and kubernetes based deployments.

     MIT Media Labs ⦁ 2018-2020

• Lead developer for several real-time online human experiments. We used a Meteor.js stack and deployed the experiments to Meteor Galaxy. One experiment involved implementing a Variational Autoencoder model using Tensorflow.js

     Max Planck Institute for Human Development Mission Ready Marketing ⦁ 2018-2020

     Blue Mesa Health ⦁ 2018-2020

• Built new features and helped implement a GraphQL API. The tech stack included React and a LoopBack.js backend

Software Developer
Onist Technologies ⦁ 2016-2018

• Onist was a fintech startup that built a virtual family office platform
• Migrated legacy Meteor.js codebase to React/Node/Serverless stack
• Built integrations with Yodlee API and Quovo API to aggregate user financial data
• Technical lead of a scrum team with offshore and local team members
  

Software Developer
AudienceView.com  ⦁ 2016

• AudienceView is a white label ticket sales platform with hundreds of customers across North America, including large universities, theatres and sports teams
• Migrated legacy .NET application to Angular2/Node stack
• Used redux, Observables, TypeScript and Angular2 Material
  

Software Developer
Baymount Private Equity ⦁ 2014-2015

• Real Money Mania‍
• RealMoneyMania was a US licensed and regulated horse gambling website
• Built five casino-type games using html5 canvas, Angular and Node with an event- driven architecture

• Thoroughbred Horse Race Betting
• This project used machine learning to develop and implement horse betting strategies
• Developed software in python to process data, handicap horses and create bets
• Worked with machine learning specialists who graduated from MIT
  

Software Developer
VarageSale.com ⦁ 2014

• VarageSale was a ‘virtual garage sale’ application and was named 2014 Startup of the Year by the Canadian Startup Awards
• Fixed UI/UX issues and added new unit testing in Ruby on Rails
  

Founder
goLadle.com ⦁ 2012-2014

• goLadle was a restaurant discovery website using real-time information about restaurants' events, offers and specials from their Twitter feeds
• Crawled Yelp, Opentable and Tripadvisor to index over 600,000 restaurants
• Processed, sorted and classified millions of tweets every week
  

Other Projects

• Bitcoin Prediction Market – Personal Project – January 2014
• Online Sports Betting Arbitrage – Personal Project – 2012
• Financial Modelling Using CUDA GPU – M.Sc Research – Fall 2011
• High Frequency Trading Using Genetic Algorithms – M.Sc Thesis Project – Summer 2011
• Equity Options Arbitrage – Personal Project – Summer 2009
• Optimizing Ontario Horse Race Betting Strategies – Personal Project – Summer 2006