Senior Software Developer at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

• Designed and built a document-sharing platform with Java/Spring Boot backend - implemented robust authentication, role-based access control, audit logging, and analytics dashboards; replaced legacy vendor tooling and ensured regulatory compliance for pension operations. • Engineered Fastly CDN caching architecture with Java-based surrogate-key purge logic and Fastly API integration - achieved 50%+ improvement in cache efficiency, reducing origin latency and ensuring content freshness at scale. • Led CI/CD modernization using GitHub Actions: automated test execution, linting, security scanning (Dependabot, SonarQube), and dependency upgrades - increased deployment confidence and eliminated vulnerable packages. • Architected an NLP translation system using Python web scraping, Azure Custom Translator fine-tuned on company-specific bilingual corpus, and Microsoft Teams API integration - automated content translation workflow and saved $150K+ annually in vendor costs. • Performed Java version upgrade to 21 and resolved code smells across the codebase - improved maintainability, performance, and alignment with current security standards. • Led architecture design sessions and contributed to solution planning for cross-team initiatives; mentored 4+ junior developers on system design patterns, SOLID principles, code quality, and testing practices. • Translated Figma designs into React/TypeScript component library and improved Lighthouse scores from 70 to 90+ via bundle optimization, lazy loading, and adaptive video delivery (HLS/DASH).