I'm a seasoned product guy who loves helping startups capture new ground.
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Here you'll find a collection of my adventures, development and design experimentation and a handful of hobby projects.
Slowly growing a collection of my startup stores, rants, etc.
2017 - Present
Avail is a data analysis engine that decodes how daily life impacts the body and how behaviours lead to overall health and wellness.
Read StoryThat question is usually best answered with what I'm working on at the time the quesiton is asked. Currently, I'm situated with an exciting, young startup we've dubbed Wirkn. There I head up the product and engineering team as the company's CPO.
Ten years ago, I stepped foot on UWaterloo campus for the first time. With a graphing calculator in one hand and a Big Gulp in the other. I couldn't have been more excited about my future in Mechanical Engineering.
Little did I know that just one year later I'd be trading my iron ring in for late nights with my trusty MacBook on a beat-up couch, in a colorfully decorated startup office.
Since then I've helped grow, sell and gracefully bring to a close and a number of startup companies across North Ameria.
I invite you to enjoy reading some of my stories and to checkout my hobby projects.
Some of the small projects I've been working on to keep my skills sharp.
Please note, I've used the free tier of Heroku to host many of these sites. They can take up to 30s to load.
With the risk of sounding like a crotchety old man brilliant engineer, I tend to advocate for the use of 'boring technologies'. Tools that get the job done and don't introduce unnecessary complexities when time is of the essence.
Some of the technologies I love to work with.
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