headwinds

UI, Analytics, APIs and a sense of Adventure

Profile

With 10+ years experience, I’ve built hundreds of apps generating billions in revenue. I’m a confident senior developer; always aspiring to be a Staff engineer. I enjoy leading the team and collaborating with business, design, backend engineers and data scientists. I’m usually split 70-30 between front and backend where I craft UI with React and React Native, and take on backend services in Node, Python and Go.

Work

GoBolt (2025)

last_mile

GoBolt’s misison for sustainable logistics aligns perfectly with my desire to confront our climate crisis and provide services that actually affect change. Along with monitoring carbon offsets, I’m fascinated with all the design challenges of creating distributed apps that simplify the shipping experience, networking and tracking the various phases as products move from the merchant to our front doors. I want to combine my passion for data visualization, mapping, and user experience to optimize the delivery flow, providing valuable metrics and customer journey insights at every step.

Prenuvo (2024)

prenuno-ui

I joined Prenuvo to help make full body MRI scans accessible to all! One day it could and should be as affordable as a dental cleaning. As an interface developer, I get this great opportunity to do data visualization and collaborate with their AI team to assist radiologists in reviewing scans. Vladek’s story expresses the benefits of early detection.

Validere (2023)

carbon hub

While at Validere I lead the frontend development effort for their new Carbon Hub Home page producing the UI that orchestrates many components including Filter Panels, Cluster Maps, Charts, Metric Tiles and Data Tables that will all react to each other and update. Along with another developer, I also helped pioneer their first React-Native mobile app which we released in the 3 phrases beginning it version 3.0 over 6 months.

Validere measures carbon and methane gas across various industries with a current focus on Oil & Gas as well as Agriculture where we are exploring the best methods to collect and report on carbon sequestration.

Loblaws Digital (2019 - 2023)

shoppers_pdp

I enjoyed 4 years @ Lobaw Digital learning all things eCommerce. I mostly built React-based UI with some vanilla JS on legacy systems. We invested heavily in GraphQL to write efficient endpoints and provide a caching layer. Along with the home page and checkout experience, my favourite page was the product detail page for Shopper’s Drug Mart which is responsive, accessible, and driven by GraphQL.

Along with UI, I also had the opportunity to write tools and backend services in Java, Go, and Python that monitor our feed servers and database.

Writing & Other Experiments

Not so Secret Full Stack Project

Introducing PhotoDare which is now live in the app store for iPhone

I’ve been collaborating with David & Nick to create a photo sharing app (Expo/React Native) and social network (NestJS & PostgreSQL) which is deployed to Azure.

React Native Expo snacks:

This repo serves my site headwinds.vercel.app which is a NextJS app leveraging my component library cross-country and distributed backend involving Python, Pusher, Postgres, & RabbitMQ.

Repo

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pnpm dev

Future

As a side-hustle, I’ve started a project to guide users to map their own development course - a Linear for your life - while chatting with AI and mining their existing productivity apps like Gmail and Google calendar. It’s in the early prototyping phases and not ready to share yet, I’m mainly building with React, Python (flask), Google Cloud, Perplexity Labs, and PostgreSQL.