Sample profile. This is an example profile that shows how Introworth works, not a real person. You can send a message to try the flow, but nobody reads or replies to it and you are never charged.
Overview
I work on payments infrastructure at Electronic Arts in Toronto. Led the migration of 73 services to idempotency. Before that: Canadian Tire and OpenText. Most at home with PostgreSQL and PCI DSS. I teach a weekend class on idempotency.
Good reasons to reach out
- Questions about consumer
Please don't message about
- Generic networking requests
- Decks without a clear ask
Answers in batches on Fridays
Skills
PCI DSSgRPCidempotencyPostgreSQLdistributed systems
Experience
- Principal EngineerJun 2025 - PresentElectronic Arts · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Led or co-led 25 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
- Sit on 3 boards.
- Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
- Staff Backend EngineerAug 2023 - Jun 2025Canadian Tire · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 27% in two quarters.
- Led the migration of 49 services to idempotency.
- Staff Backend EngineerNov 2021 - Apr 2023OpenText · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Shipped 17 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
- Backend EngineerMay 2018 - Nov 2021Accenture · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 541ms to 97ms.
- Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 35 a week to 3.
- Senior Backend EngineerOct 2016 - May 2018Meta · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 548ms to 121ms.
- Led the migration of 42 services to idempotency.
References
No references yet.
Education
- Queen's UniversityBCom, Computer Science2010 - 2014
Details
Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections