George Guja
Toronto, ON ·
georg[email protected]
Proven Software Platform Engineer with experience leveraging agile, DevOps, and CI/CD to manage large scale distributed platforms on public cloud infrastructure.
Skills
Architecture
- Load Balancing
- RESTful APIs
- SaaS/PaaS/IaaS
Languages, Operating Systems & Tools
- Javascript
- react
- nodejs
- linux
- MeteorJS
Platform Development & Administration
- Atlassian
- Bamboo
- Github
- CircleCI
- Semaphore
- passenger
- NGINX
- AWS
Data Management
- MongoDB
Containers & Cloud
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Experience
Software Developer
- Assisted interviewing, on-boarding, and growing a development team from 4 to 9 developers.
- Improved SCRUM processes focusing on retrospectives and sprint planning.
- Introduced a serverless framework (AWS Lambda) to migrate our in-app CRON jobs.
- Debugged and troubleshot production JavaScript code on Heroku/AWS.
- Implemented feature sets using the Meteor framework for real time interactivity.
June 2018 - Present
Software Developer/SCRUM Master
- Broke down business requirements into simpler elements and translated this logic into our Javascript (Meteor/React) application.
- Delivered a wide range of functional enhancements and performance improvements to dozens of existing and new features incorporated in the platform.
- Actively followed and enhanced the agile environment to meet shifting requirements. Strong understanding of MongoDB and Meteor packages that compliment it.
- Coordinated the work efforts of the development team for various projects.
- Helped team complete tasks successfully and on-time and resolved obstacles encountered by team members. Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Effort points) for backlog items.
September 2015 - Oct 2018
IT/Workstation Software Specialist
- Assisted with the building and testing of individual software and bundled software images.
- Provided quality assurance by validating academic software images to ensure they meet our standard of efficiency and are error free.
- Performed a high level of troubleshooting on faulty software packages which involves changes to the Windows Registry and changes to the program code to ensure functionality on our images.
- Created and followed test documentation for various Windows/Mac programs that are used by staff, faculty,and students.
- Maintained and created automated scripts used for testing of our images and software packages using Batch scripting.
- Monitored McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator for any detected malware on machines college wide and took action if necessary.
April 2014 - September 2015