Jasper Weaver

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Senior Engineering Manager at Quill Energy | ex-Cohere

Quill Energy
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Rotman School of Management
English, Arabic
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Overview

Currently at Quill Energy, where I lead cloud infrastructure with a team of 21. Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 498ms to 134ms. Wrote the Terraform service that now handles 38 million requests a day.

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Skills
PrometheusTerraformperformance engineeringincident responseAWS
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Looking for a frontend engineer who has worked on AWS at scale

Role
Frontend engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$141k-$196k + equity
Team
Infrastructure, 15 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
Production experience with performance engineering Production experience with Terraform Ownership of something end to end
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp C$130k-C$194k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Toronto, ON · remote OKincident responseterraformperformance engineering
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Quill Energy · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Shipped 25 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 40% in two quarters.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
    Cohere · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Grew the infrastructure team from 5 to 33 engineers.
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 664ms to 148ms.
  3. Site Reliability Engineer
    Feb 2020 - Sep 2021
    Deloitte · 1 yr 7 mo · Contract · Toronto, ON
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 25 a week to 3.
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 28% in two quarters.
  4. Site Reliability Engineer
    Nov 2018 - Feb 2020
    Thomson Reuters · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 24 a week to 1.
  5. Site Reliability Engineer
    Aug 2015 - Jul 2018
    EY · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Shipped 25 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2025

Built with performance engineering and incident response. 2211 people used it last year.

Write-up: cloud infrastructure in practice
2023

A long-form guide to cloud infrastructure for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Rotman School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2016 - 2018
  2. OCAD University
    BDes, Information Technology
    2010 - 2014

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