Leading a team of passionate software engineers with special interests in scalable systems, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, and micro-services.

May 2009 Masters of Applied Computer Science
Dalhousie University Halifax, NS
Concentration: Data Representation for Information Interchange & Storage.
May 2006 Bachelor of Computer Science
Dalhousie University Halifax, NS

Nov 2009 Red Hat Certified Engineer
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 110-247-129

Careers, GitHub (Jekyll), Coderwall, StackOverflow, OhLoh, LinkedIn,
Dalhousie, Twitter @pykler

Sept 2012 - Present Co-Founder and CTO
LeadSift Halifax, NS

• Real-time Sifting of Social Media Posts
• Classifying and finding intent in short texts
• Architecting integrations with third party systems
• Architecting solutions for high availability and load

• Technologies:

  Python,Django,Selenium,HTML/JS,VueJS,Angular, NodeJS,Scala,NLP,MongoDB,Postgres,Neo4J,Redis, Jenkins,Git,Mercurial,Unix,Debian,Puppet,ProxMox, Salt-Stack,AWS,Elasticsearch,...

March 2011 - Sept 2012 Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
GenieKnows Inc. (GenieKnows.com) Halifax, NS

• Leading development efforts to meet demanding deadlines
• Architecting new developments and developing future roadmaps for the
  current platform
• Working with IT consultants to create a reliable cloud computing platform
  to host GenieKnows' applications

• Technologies:

  Python,Java,HTML/Javascript,JQuery,Django,SVN, Unix,CentOS,Cisco ASA / ASDM,ProxMox,Cloud ...

April 2008 - March 2011 Senior Consultant
NTT Data (Formerly Keane Canada) Halifax, NS
Pason Systems - Oil & Gas Industry

• Working in a stressful enterprise production environment
• Maintaining unittests and updating QA test plans
• Developing ReSTful services, to acheive Service Oriented Architecture
• Working with multiple programming languages simultaneously, while
  maintaining integration.

• Technologies:

  C,Java,HTML/Javascript,Prototype,Dojo,Python,Pylons, XML,JSON,SVN,Git,MVC,ReST,SOA,Unix,CentOS.

Sept 2007 - April 2008 Software Engineer
IT Interactive Service (GenieKnows.com) Halifax, NS
Research & Development Department

• Developed interface functionality for local.genieknows.com (now Yellowee.com)
• Developed back end modules for the search engines developed by GenieKnows.com
• Investigated various research topics in the fields of information retrieval.

• Technologies:

  Perl,Python,C/++,PHP,Javascript,OSGeo,CentOS, , Unix,SVN.

June 2007 - Sept 2007 Web Programmer
ArtistXite.com Halifax, NS

• Developed interface and backend functionality to display web traffic statistics.
• Developed a system to upload videos and encode them into flash video format.

• Technologies:

  MySQL,Perl,PHP,Javascript,FFMpeg,Unix,SVN,CVS.

Aug 2007 - May 2009 Masters Student
Dalhousie University Halifax, NS

• Implemented the DesignDB (DDB project extension) as my Masters Thesis.
• Designed and Implemented the External Representation of Block Designs v3.

• Technologies:

  Python,Python Ctypes,Pylons,SqlAlchemy,Mako,AJAX, JSON,XML,SQLite,PostgreSql,Mercurial Hg, (Li|U)nix.

June 2006 - Aug 2007 Python/Web Developer
D-Drive Lab, Dalhousie University FCS Halifax, NS
Design Database Project
Satellite Project of DesignTheory.org, Queen Mary University London, UK

• Developed a python web application that connects to an Sqlite database
  containing statistical designs.
• Assisted in the design of a schema to store statistical t-designs.
• Used a state of the art pythonic web framework (Cherrypy 3.0), along with other, such as a templating language, to develop the design database browser.

• Technologies:

  Python,Cherrypy 3.0Genshi,HTML,SQLite,XML, Shell (Unix) Scripting,Apache,SVN,Mercurial Hg.

Since 2003 Professional Software Developer

• Technologies:

  Oracle,Oracle Developer (IDE),Java,Microsoft Excel, J2EE,J2SE,Apache,PHP,MySQL,Apache,IIS, Windows Networking,

Feb 2008 - Jan 2012 IT Committee Lead Member
UMMAH Community Center Halifax, NS

• Managed a small team to assemble a website in Joomla to inform potential donors and members of the community with news and updates.
• Designed and implemented a Joomla Template along with new plugins as well as adding features to existing joomla plugins used on the website.
• Prepared presentations, slideshows and media required by the committee.

• Technologies:

  LATEX,PHP,Joomla,Python,

Coffee (Trying to master all possible coffee techniques and drinks), Wood working (furniture making), Electronics (Arduino, RPi), Smart Homes (Zigbee, Zwave), and L^AT_EX (eg. this resume).