Research interests

I'm interested in the topic of digital identity wallets and self-sovereign identities, and their applications in the safeguarding of user privacy, digital credential verification, and online voting.

• Self-sovereign digital identities, protocols, and authentication
• Digital identity wallet applications and architectures
• Online pseudonymity
• Electronic voting and digital democracy

Education

• Master of Computer Science (pending) – Carleton University (2027)
• Bachelor of Computing, Computer Science – University of Guelph (2016)

Academic experience

Teaching assistant – Carleton University (2025 – present)

• COMP 4108, Computer Systems Security (Fall 2025)

Teaching assistant – Mount Allison University (2014 – 2015)

• COMP 1631, Introduction to Computer Science (Winter 2014, Winter 2015)
• MATH 2221, Linear Algebra (Fall 2014)

Industrial experience

Senior Software Engineer – Synctera (2021 – 2025)

• Feature lead for over five different projects, particularly focused on lending product offerings.
• Maintained and greatly improved critical event-driven architecture to handle end-of-day banking actions.
• Mentored other engineers as they joined the team.

Full Stack Software Lead – Toxon Technologies (2020 – 2021)

• Managed a team of three engineers to relaunch an existing iOS / Android application.
• Spun up and maintained a new back-end from scratch in AWS.
• Created Auth0 tenants for user authentication and management, and migrated users from the old system into the new.

Full Stack Developer – Innovyze (2020)

• Team lead for three other developers to migrate existing services to a microservice architecture.
• Participated in high-level architecture design discussions, as well as milestone planning.
• Improving best practices in the use of AWS services, and REST API design.

Software Engineer II – Index Exchange (2017 – 2020)

• Full-stack work, primarily focused on scalable, resilient microservices.
• Served as project lead and scrum master on various projects.
• Significant functional and validation test development experience.

Software Developer – DataESP, Inc. (2016)

• Helped a small team to stabilise and release a data visualisation single-page application.
• Participated in various company-wide architecture and design meetings.