Jacqueline Miller

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VP of Engineering, Beacon Energy - gRPC · Java · distributed systems

Beacon Energy
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Queen's University
English
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Overview

Based in Toronto. I lead payments infrastructure at Beacon Energy. Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 8 million requests a day. Weekend cricket, weekday chai.

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PostgreSQLgRPCdistributed systemsJava
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Building out payments platform at Beacon Energy: security engineers wanted in Toronto

Role
Security engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$170k-$222k
Team
Payments platform, 6 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with gRPC Production experience with PostgreSQL Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp C$123k-C$211k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Toronto, ON · remote OKdistributed systemspostgresqlgrpc
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Beacon Energy · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 34 a week to 4.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 40% in two quarters.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Jun 2022 - Jan 2024
    EY · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the Java service that now handles 32 million requests a day.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
    Microsoft · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 8 million transactions a day.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2018 - Apr 2021
    Ubisoft · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Moved 70% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Grew the payments platform team from 6 to 34 engineers.
  5. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2016 - Dec 2018
    Shopify · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 23% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 35 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

Payments infrastructure benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing gRPC and Java on real workloads.

Open-source PostgreSQL toolkit
2022

A small library for payments infrastructure that 156 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Queen's University
    BCom, Mathematics
    1995 - 1999

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