A Diverse Background Of Experiences
Full Stack Developer who has worn many hats
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Creative
David has experience working closely with designers and creatives. He draws on his background in writing, music, and the visual arts.
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Technical
He has an interest in how programs and machines work and enjoys learning new tools. Beyond solving the problem at hand, he enjoys understanding the deeper reasons behind Why and How something works.
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Communicator
David is skilled at communicating complex problems to non-technical team members and stakeholders. He has been a team lead and scrum master and cares about getting everyone on the same page and covering all the bases.
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Self Reliant
Experience working on remote teams and personal projects. David has launched his own projects and shipped features from all around the world.
March 2020 - November 2020
Great Barrier Reef Census
www.greatreefcensus.org- Assisted research teams in Cairns and Townsville, Australia in the Great Barrier Reef Census. Logged 40 days of diving over two months mapping and documenting the status of the reef system.
- Developed a social mapping tool that allows small groups of travelers to edit a planned route simultaneously. React/TypeScript/TailwindCSS used for front-end; Apollo GraphQL, Node, and Express used for back-end. Used by 6+ groups of travel organizers.
- Created a notification system for a camper-converted Ford Econovan Maxi using battery and solar controllers to send analytics and usage information to the user via push notifications.
September 2016 - March 2020
Automat
www.automat.ai- Designed UX and developed web apps for building and deploying chatbots to Messenger/Slack/Kik. Front-end built with Typescript/ReasonML/React/Node/Apollo/GraphQL. Data lived in POSTgres and CouchDB. Infra relied on Kubernetes/Docker/Jenkins/Git Hooks/AWS.
- Developed an in-house chat messaging service supporting 1M+ conversations that integrated client websites bypassing the need to deploy to Messenger/Slack/Kik. Integration led to an increase in client sales by 100% and had 90% customer satisfaction with the client's customers.
- Acted as tech communication lead with clients Amika, L’Oreal, and National Bank.
- US patent on a new methodology for generating conversational bots: David Hernon et. al. (2020). SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEMS (29/729, 529)
- Hiring engineering team leading to front-end and back-end team growth of 400%
- Led the initiative to create a successful user testing rubric that contributed to user satisfaction.
September 2015 - September 2016
LeadWeb
www.lead-web.com- Developed UI/UX for a real-time bus schedule app deployed on embedded screens by the City of Toronto and visible for 250,000 daily bus riders.
- Developed touchscreen advertisements and games for clients. Deployed and maintained the apps on embedded touchscreens at 20 bus stops in the Toronto area accumulating 30,000 impressions per week.
- Tech development lead on client projects with Bell Media, Astral, and Équation Humaine.
- Developed an internal analytics tool using ChartJS and Angular for generating live data visualizations.
- Developed process to batch download, clean, and analyze user data. Auto-generate analytics reports that were sent to clients.
August 2013 - September 2015
Silent Disco Squad
www.silentdiscosquad.com- Created partnerships with dozens of organizations including Amnesty International and Unify.
- Built a Ruby-on-Rails powered music-sharing and event-organizing web platform with 30,000+ unique users.
- Developed a companion web app in AngularJS that used web sockets and a custom audio-stream-synchronizing library to simultaneously stream a single live audio source to global dance parties with sub-300ms latency.
- Hosted and produced weekly live music shows powered by our web streaming service. Grew this weekly event into a yearly digital festival that 30,000 people participated in from almost 100 cities simultaneously.
- Architected and developed an iOS social app in Objective-C and Swift for uploading and sharing user-generated videos. Used FFMPEG/bash/JavaScript/S3 to batch process user uploads and run an in-house CDN.
September 2013 - May 2014
Nuance Communications
wwww.nuance.com- Responsible for running and analyzing the weekly load tests for the Voicemail-to-Text product and generating analytics reports circulated amongst team and management.
- Implemented an automated pipeline that archived the logs and generated data visualizations that replaced the previous manual process.
May 2013
Freelance
- Developed a computer vision pipeline for Materials Engineering grad students at McGill University using Python and OpenCV to analyze Scanning Electron Miscroscope images and calculate the volume of metallic crystals.