Andrea Kaplen

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Independent Professional Development
May 1, 2025 - Present
Sharpening interpersonal communication, leadership and mentoring skills through training; improving proficiency with Angular v18+ (RxJS, Signals, CLI), GitHub, GitHub Copilot, and reactive programming; expanding Python skills (venv, pytest, approvaltests) and advancing TDD; building a growing portfolio of code samples in GitHub repositories.
Senior Full Stack Developer at Johnston Group
October 1, 2022 - May 1, 2025
Acted as a cross-functional Agile team member delivering front-end components in Angular, and back-end services (REST, HTTP, C#, .NET Core, EF, LINQ). Modernized a quote management system from ASP.NET to Angular within a layered microservices architecture. Created unit and integration tests, performed root cause analysis, and improved developer guides and onboarding. Maintained a legacy WinForms app and contributed to Airflow DAGs; conducted peer reviews and deployments via GitLab CI/CD.
Software Developer at Price Industries Ltd.
September 1, 2019 - October 1, 2022
Improved internal quality control issue tracking via Power Platform Canvas App; maintained All-In-One sales engineering system; integrated Microsoft Dynamics 365 and HubSpot APIs; managed change, testing and releases; administered SharePoint sites; collaborated with cross-functional teams in a distributed setup; analyzed and documented data flows for Power Platform apps and SharePoint.
Programmer / System Analyst at Paul's Hauling
May 1, 2019 - August 1, 2019
Gathered requirements, performed analysis, implemented business reports, investigated IT issues and liaised with software vendor; coordinated deployment of patches/releases; modernized Clipper app to SQL-based jobs and stored procedures; owned reporting and health of SQL databases (SSRS, SSIS, SSAS).
.Net Developer at Universal Drug Store Health Ltd.
November 1, 2015 - April 1, 2019
Automated drug data transformation processes; conducted root cause analysis, defined solutions and tested changes; established source control practices; administered multiple Ubuntu servers; improved customer-facing emails; modernized web apps and integrated QuickBooks Enterprise API to import sales data.
Service Information Developer at Hewlett Packard Company of Canada
October 1, 2011 - March 1, 2015
Improved SQL data patch scripts, analyzed required system changes, implemented solutions; performed root cause analysis, troubleshooting and SQL queries across multiple environments; followed SDLC and Agile methodologies; contributed to multi-environment deployments.

Education

Computer Analyst and Programmer Diploma at Red River College, Winnipeg
January 11, 2030 - February 3, 2026
60 Credits of Applied Computer Science Major at University of Winnipeg
January 11, 2030 - February 3, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment, Transportation & Logistics, Other, Computers & Electronics