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I’m a Canadian software developer, entrepreneur, and digital infrastructure expert in MontrĂ©al, QuĂ©bec. I’m the founder of BlackieOps, which makes Worktree.

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I’ve been working professionally in the software industry since 2009, including at Shopify (Developer, Payments Platform) and Wealthsimple (Senior Software Engineer, Platform Security), as well as few small agencies and startups. My first job was working over the summers at MetaLab during my high school years.

My technical experience ranges across high-performance backend APIs, cloud infrastructure and DevOps (AWS Certified), datacentre network architecture, security blue-teaming, and even frontend JS.

Writing

May 6, 2025Farewell, Dynamic Drive
October 28, 2024I can only do one thing at a time.
May 3, 2024Do you know where your domains are?
February 21, 2024The Importance of Structure
January 13, 2024Drummers Still Exist
August 15, 2021Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, DMARC, and SPF
December 14, 2020Resiliency in SaaS codebases through productisation
July 10, 2020Build Worse Software
June 16, 2019Generating Static Sites with Make and Bash
May 6, 2018A Review of the Dell Latitude 7214
March 11, 2018Hostile Private Networks in the Cloud
December 23, 2017Taking Control of Bell Fibe
July 22, 2015Quick and Dirty Containers with systemd
March 14, 2011Facebook's Compromising My Privacy