WORK EXPERIENCE iOS Engineer | Square | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) February 2023 - June 2025 ● Collaborate closely with cross functional teams (engineers, designers, and product managers) to define product scope, features, and design, ensuring alignment across Web, iOS, Android and Server platforms to deliver exceptional product experiences ● Own the end-to-end feature development, taking ownership of API design, implementation, testing and deployment, ensuring seamless integration and delivery ● Drive iOS development efforts, managing the full project lifecycle from planning and risk management to development, testing, rollout, and post launch maintenance, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery ● Contribute to on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining high service reliability ● Become the team’s subject matter expert on backend services, actively identifying areas for improvement and sharing insights to enhance product performance iOS Engineer | Pegasystems | Waterloo ON (Swift, Kotlin, Java, JS, React, KMM) September 2021 - January 2023 ● Design, develop, architect native iOS real-time chat SDK using KMM architecture. ● Take ownership for the technical development, project/program delivery of component design, build and maintenance. ● Play a key role in getting the SDK production ready by keeping high standards for each feature. ● Take additional responsibility by working on Android and Common modules to improve overall app performance, efficiency and consistency. ● Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best in class software development. Mobile Developer | Sera4 | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) September 2020 - September 2021 ● Develop and architect for both iOS and Android platforms (Swift, Java). ● Conceptualize, develop, and test new features native Android and IOS applications, including UI, core functionality, and third-party SDKS; work with developers to design, develop and ship top tier solutions for 100,000+ clients on 6 continents. ● Improved the iOS platform functionality and features by 200%. Software Engineer coop | Google GSOC | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) May 2020 - September 2020 ● Collaborated with mentors around the world in order to build an open source version of Amazon’s Texttract Service. ● Developed skills necessary to work on and maintain an open source project. ● Successfully passed all 3 evaluations. Software Engineer coop | Boardera Inc | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) June 2020 - September 2020 ● Worked as a Full Stack Developer using MERN stack and GraphQL. ● Developed an algorithm to recognize the correct category of a part number and successfully parse the data based on its category using Nearley.js with 100% accuracy. ● Designed and built the database using MongoDB and Elastic-Search for 30+ billion data documents.

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WORK EXPERIENCE iOS Engineer | Square | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) February 2023 - June 2025 ● Collaborate closely with cross functional teams (engineers, designers, and product managers) to define product scope, features, and design, ensuring alignment across Web, iOS, Android and Server platforms to deliver exceptional product experiences ● Own the end-to-end feature development, taking ownership of API design, implementation, testing and deployment, ensuring seamless integration and delivery ● Drive iOS development efforts, managing the full project lifecycle from planning and risk management to development, testing, rollout, and post launch maintenance, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery ● Contribute to on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining high service reliability ● Become the team’s subject matter expert on backend services, actively identifying areas for improvement and sharing insights to enhance product performance iOS Engineer | Pegasystems | Waterloo ON (Swift, Kotlin, Java, JS, React, KMM) September 2021 - January 2023 ● Design, develop, architect native iOS real-time chat SDK using KMM architecture. ● Take ownership for the technical development, project/program delivery of component design, build and maintenance. ● Play a key role in getting the SDK production ready by keeping high standards for each feature. ● Take additional responsibility by working on Android and Common modules to improve overall app performance, efficiency and consistency. ● Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best in class software development. Mobile Developer | Sera4 | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) September 2020 - September 2021 ● Develop and architect for both iOS and Android platforms (Swift, Java). ● Conceptualize, develop, and test new features native Android and IOS applications, including UI, core functionality, and third-party SDKS; work with developers to design, develop and ship top tier solutions for 100,000+ clients on 6 continents. ● Improved the iOS platform functionality and features by 200%. Software Engineer coop | Google GSOC | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) May 2020 - September 2020 ● Collaborated with mentors around the world in order to build an open source version of Amazon’s Texttract Service. ● Developed skills necessary to work on and maintain an open source project. ● Successfully passed all 3 evaluations. Software Engineer coop | Boardera Inc | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) June 2020 - September 2020 ● Worked as a Full Stack Developer using MERN stack and GraphQL. ● Developed an algorithm to recognize the correct category of a part number and successfully parse the data based on its category using Nearley.js with 100% accuracy. ● Designed and built the database using MongoDB and Elastic-Search for 30+ billion data documents.

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WORK EXPERIENCE
iOS Engineer | Square | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) February 2023 - June 2025
● Collaborate closely with cross functional teams (engineers, designers, and product managers) to define product scope,
features, and design, ensuring alignment across Web, iOS, Android and Server platforms to deliver exceptional product
experiences
● Own the end-to-end feature development, taking ownership of API design, implementation, testing and deployment,
ensuring seamless integration and delivery
● Drive iOS development efforts, managing the full project lifecycle from planning and risk management to development,
testing, rollout, and post launch maintenance, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
● Contribute to on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining
high service reliability
● Become the team’s subject matter expert on backend services, actively identifying areas for improvement and sharing insights
to enhance product performance
iOS Engineer | Pegasystems | Waterloo ON (Swift, Kotlin, Java, JS, React, KMM) September 2021 - January 2023
● Design, develop, architect native iOS real-time chat SDK using KMM architecture.
● Take ownership for the technical development, project/program delivery of component design, build and maintenance.
● Play a key role in getting the SDK production ready by keeping high standards for each feature.
● Take additional responsibility by working on Android and Common modules to improve overall app performance, efficiency
and consistency.
● Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best in class software development.
Mobile Developer | Sera4 | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) September 2020 - September 2021
● Develop and architect for both iOS and Android platforms (Swift, Java).
● Conceptualize, develop, and test new features native Android and IOS applications, including UI, core functionality, and
third-party SDKS; work with developers to design, develop and ship top tier solutions for 100,000+ clients on 6 continents.
● Improved the iOS platform functionality and features by 200%.
Software Engineer coop | Google GSOC | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) May 2020 - September 2020
● Collaborated with mentors around the world in order to build an open source version of Amazon’s Texttract Service.
● Developed skills necessary to work on and maintain an open source project.
● Successfully passed all 3 evaluations.
Software Engineer coop | Boardera Inc | Waterloo ON (Swift, Obj-c, Kotlin, Java) June 2020 - September 2020
● Worked as a Full Stack Developer using MERN stack and GraphQL.
● Developed an algorithm to recognize the correct category of a part number and successfully parse the data based on its
category using Nearley.js with 100% accuracy.
● Designed and built the database using MongoDB and Elastic-Search for 30+ billion data documents.

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Work Experience

iOS Engineer at Square
February 1, 2023 - June 1, 2025
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (engineers, designers, and product managers) to define product scope, features, and design, ensuring alignment across Web, iOS, Android and Server platforms to deliver exceptional product experiences. Own the end-to-end feature development, taking ownership of API design, implementation, testing and deployment, ensuring seamless integration and delivery. Drive iOS development lifecycle, planning, risk management, testing, rollout, and post-launch maintenance to ensure timely and high-quality delivery. Contribute to on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues, ensuring minimal downtime and reliability. Become the team's subject-matter expert on backend services, proactively identifying areas for improvement and sharing insights to enhance product performance.
iOS Engineer at Pegasystems
September 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
Design, develop, architect native iOS real-time chat SDK using KMM architecture. Take ownership for the technical development, project/program delivery of component design, build and maintenance. Ensure the SDK is production-ready by upholding high standards for each feature. Also contribute to Android and Common modules to improve overall app performance, efficiency and consistency. Collaborate as a member of an agile team to get products developed and completed with best-in-class software development.
Mobile Developer at Sera4
September 1, 2020 - September 1, 2021
Develop and architect for both iOS and Android platforms. Conceptualize, develop, and test new features native Android and iOS applications, including UI, core functionality, and third-party SDKs; work with developers to design, develop and ship top-tier solutions for 100,000+ clients on 6 continents. Improved the iOS platform functionality and features by 200%.
Software Engineer coop at Google GSOC
May 1, 2020 - September 1, 2020
Collaborated with mentors around the world in order to build an open-source version of Amazon Textract Service. Developed skills necessary to work on and maintain an open-source project. Successfully passed all 3 evaluations.
Software Engineer coop at Boardera Inc
June 1, 2020 - September 1, 2020
Worked as a Full Stack Developer using MERN stack and GraphQL. Developed an algorithm to recognize the correct category of a part number and successfully parse the data based on its category using Nearley.js with 100% accuracy. Designed and built the database using MongoDB and Elasticsearch for 30+ billion data documents.

Education

Software Engineering Technology at Conestoga College
January 11, 2030 - May 1, 2020

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Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment