Jack Holmes

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Telus · TypeScript, PostgreSQL

Telus
Montreal, QC · ET (UTC-5)
8+ years experience
Queen's University
English, French
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Overview

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Telus, focused on growth engineering. Moved 75% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 639ms to 121ms. Before that: KPMG and PwC. Most at home with experimentation and cloud security. Kannada theatre fan.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Mentors who have done this before
  • Questions about growth engineering
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Working sessions on PostgreSQL
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

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Skills
experimentationanalyticscloud securityNode.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQL
LearningLearning something
closes in 3 months

Looking for feedback on my resume from someone in banking

Goal
Get good enough at TypeScript to own it at work.
Where I am now
Some experience
Ideal mentor
Someone who has worked in growth engineering for a few years
Cadence
Weekly
What I can offer back
Help with frontend work

8 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

Montreal, QCcloud securityexperimentationanalytics
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Experience

  1. Senior Full-Stack Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Present
    Telus · 2 yr · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Grew the growth team from 3 to 24 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 4.
  2. Full-Stack Engineer
    May 2023 - Aug 2024
    KPMG · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 33% in two quarters.
    • Moved 86% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Full-Stack Engineer
    Sep 2019 - May 2023
    PwC · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Cut p99 latency on the growth services from 405ms to 81ms.
  4. Full-Stack Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
    Shopify · 11 mo · Full-time · Montreal, QC
    • Moved 70% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Queen's University
    BCom, Electrical Engineering
    2014 - 2018

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