Corporate Projects

Infrastructure Re-Architecture (Client Isolation Focus)

D2L, March 2021 - October 2021

Company-wide effort to re-architect all systems to better isolate client data and processes.

Defined, reviewed, and updated company-wide architectural patterns and processes to meet desired requirements
Prioritized work for multiple development teams with program, project, and development managers
Consulted on and drove technical decisions with teams when convergence to agreed upon patterns was infeasible
Established, contributed to, and maintained shared libraries repository that codifies company-wide patterns and processes
Planned and facilitated deployment and verification of client and test environments across relevant teams

Brightspace Data Sets

D2L, July 2017 - Present

Raw, user-level access to Brightspace data in CSV form, refreshed on a regular cadence. Enables clients to integrate into and identify trends unique to their institution's ecosystem.

Architect and technical lead for migration and expansion of data sets platform into AWS
Develop platform integration points to enable product offerings across the organization to meet data access requirements
Plan, propose, and drive medium to long term solutions for multiple teams and with development and product managers
Analyze and improve performance of legacy solutions based on SQL query plan and log analysis to maintain SLAs
Developer representative online and at annual client conference for over 1000 attendees

OAuth 2.0

D2L, March 2016 - December 2017

Third-party integration via D2L's implementation of RFC 6749 - The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework.

Implemented Client Registration and Authorization Code Grant sections of RFC 6749 with two subject matter experts
Corrected implementation of RFC 6749 that prevented a popular Postman authorization feature from working properly
Developed and advocated for user experience improvement that allows registered clients to be modified

Brightspace Data Platform

D2L, April 2014 - September 2019

Building D2L's next generation educational analytics platform. Event-driven, lambda-like data-processing architecture backed by multiple types of data stores. Data is exposed via a RESTful API layer.

Developed eventing framework and data platform in AWS that sustains over 1000 messages per second
Reviewed and provided consulting on event schema design for other teams
Improved and maintained tooling for deploying to production multiple times a day
Working group member for company-wide on-call tool (OpsGenie); implemented integration with eventing framework and data platform
Achieved 10x reduction in infrastructure costs by replacing legacy system with AWS services

Brightspace Insights

D2L, September 2011 - December 2011, May 2012 - April 2014

Educational analytics as a service. Traditional ETL process, extracting Brightspace data from a transactional database into a reporting warehouse. Data is exposed via a white-labelled third-party BI tool with pre-defined reports and ad-hoc support.

Performed exploratory testing with a focus on integration points; analyzed defects and source code to recommend fixes
Updated core libraries for security compliance; maintained testing environments

Open-Source Projects

cron-allowed-range

Use cron-like expressions to test if a datetime is in an allowed range.

gh-action-node-update-deps

A GitHub Action that submits pull requests to update all Node dependencies in the project.

github-tasting-menu

A GitHub App that only notifies on a subset of actions.

netlify-deployment-hours-plugin

A Netlify plugin that blocks deployment if it is outside of deployment hours.

serverless

Occasional contributer to the Serverless Framework.

serverless-default-aws-resource-attributes

A Serverless Framework plugin that allows you to set default properties a given CloudFormation resource should have based on type.

serverless-dotenv-plugin

A Serverless Framework plugin that uses dotenv to load environment variables from a .env configuration file.

serverless-stack-policy-by-resource-type

A Serverless Framework plugin for automatically populating CloudFormation stack policy statements by resource type.

Front-End Projects

hangman-reactjs

A popular word guessing game using React and Redux.

oauth2-client-shell-v2

Interface for going through the OAuth 2.0 authorization code grant flow. Written in Vue.js.

pprint-ndjson-ui

Tool for pretty-printing newline-delimited JSON using React and Redux.