Achievements
Notable milestones, awards, and accomplishments.
Progressed from Junior to Senior Software Engineer in under 3 years at Act-On Software, demonstrating exceptional proficiency across the modern tech stack.
Selected as the sole backend engineer to architect and deliver a ground-up replacement of a partner AI product under a 3-month deadline, building multi-agent RAG infrastructure with AWS Bedrock.
Built a subject line optimizer using AWS Bedrock that analyzes top and bottom performing subject lines, driving a 17% increase in customer email open rates.
Authored a comprehensive 50-page business proposal outlining a marketing strategy, sales strategy, and 15 project initiatives. The core thesis — shifting towards AI-driven products — was adopted as company direction, and the sales strategy was implemented.
Max Ellis, Sarah Nadi, and Danny Dig. "Operation-based Refactoring-aware Merging: An Empirical Evaluation". In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE 2022).
View PreprintAchieved a perfect 4.0 GPA in M.Sc Computing Science at the University of Alberta.
Received the OSWALD Award (Outstanding Students With Academic Leadership and Development Skills), Clark College's annual recognition for students demonstrating outstanding achievement in academics, leadership, and service.
Reduced connector setup time from several hours to under 20 minutes by automating OpenFlow provisioning with Terraform, including VPCs, subnets, security groups, IAM roles, and HashiCorp Vault rules.