Martin Allaire

Software Engineer
mallaire77@gmail.com
(613) 804-4534

Summary

Experienced Software Engineer with a strong background in backend software design and development. Skilled in project and team management, dedicated to fostering a positive work environment. I enjoy the full development life cycle, from concept to implementation, therefore I am happy as an individual contributor or managing a project.

Work

Finwello

Director of Technology
(Sept. 2022 - Present)

• Assembled a cross-functional development team (internal/outsourced) to deliver a cost-effective software product
• Successfully delivered the software product within budget and schedule constraints, from concept to market launch
• Supported sales efforts by engaging with prospective clients’ technical teams to address technical, security, and integration concerns
• Established performance metrics (SLAs, SLOs, SLIs) and implemented monitoring to ensure service quality
• Sole infrastructure/backend developer, designed and developed the infrastructure & backend code for all software features

Yoppworks

Principal Consultant
(March 2022 - Sept. 2022)

• Developed a comprehensive GCP Landing Zone strategy for the government of Ontario
• Executed a complex lift-and-shift migration for one of Ontario’s largest government departments, including networking reconfiguration for secure hybrid cloud operations
• Partnered with Google to install and configure specialized Oracle Server hardware, enabling the migration of a critical Oracle database to GCP
• Modernized legacy IBM WebSphere application suite for the same Ontario government department
• Balanced client-facing responsibilities with hands-on software development, focusing on establishing effective work practices, regular check-ins, and knowledge transfer sessions
• Earned the accolade of Google’s ‘Public Sector Partner of the Year (Canada)’

Team Lead
(Oct. 2020 - March 2022)

• Guided a cross-functional developer team in building the GoSpaces product, emphasizing collective ownership to minimize meetings, maximize value add, and foster team accountability & trust
• Strongly followed domain-driven design and reactive architecture principles, ensuring team alignment with software design patterns and methodologies
• Balanced leadership duties with hands-on development work, focusing on backend design and implementation

Senior Software Engineer
(Aug. 2018 - Oct. 2020)

• Provided consulting (Lightbend stack) for major US companies in a variety of sectors, including Akka training
• Pivoted to product development on the GoSpaces incubator product, transforming it from a reference architecture to a full business suite aimed at managing corporate social responsibilities
• Presented at industry conferences, including a full-day workshop on ‘Akka Streams’ at Reactive Summit (2018) and a talk on ‘The current state of gRPC as a gateway’ at Reactive Horizons (2019)

Razorfish

Senior Software Engineer
(Mar. 2016 - Aug. 2018)

• Contributed to Walmart’s re-platforming initiative, migrating payment and catalog features to Scala & Play! Framework, focused on reliability and scalability for private cloud (OneOps)
• Enhanced release processes, enabling weekly releases for increased stability and paving the way for continuous delivery
• Integrated Spark and Akka for high-throughput data processing during Walmart marketplace expansion, ensuring minimal downtime

Discoverly

Technology Partner
(Apr. 2014 - Apr. 2018)

• Led the development of a scalable, adaptable application for student program selection
• Collaborated with post-docs to design and validate a core recommendation algorithm
• Secured funding through grants and participated in accelerator programs (NextAI, Startup Garage)

Telus Health

Software Engineer
(Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2016)

• Focused on feature implementation for Telus Health’s EMR product, PS Suite, enhancing product functionality and user experience
• Took on the role of build master, overseeing the build process for the software application and working with deployment teams

Expertise

Languages

• Scala/Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Dart, Python

Major Frameworks

• Tapir, Vert.x, Cats, Akka, Spark, Flutter, React/Native, NextJS, NodeJS

Infrastructure

• GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Github Actions, Jenkins, TravisCI
• Major relational and non-relational databases

ML

• Model selection and performance evaluation
• Methods to optimize a model’s objective function across dataset size, compute budget, and inference requirements
• Methods for training, tuning, inference, and deployment

Education

Algonquin College

Computer Science Technology, CSE
(2010-2014)

Certifications

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on Coursera, Functional Programming Principles in Scala (2017)
• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on Coursera, Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark (2017)
• Lightbend, Ceritified Reactive Architect (2018)
• Lightbend, Accredited Trainer, Lightbend Akka for Scala - Professional (2018)
• Lightbend, Accredited Trainer, Lightbend Akka Streams for Scala - Professional (2018)
• Lightbend, Ceritified Reactive Operations (2019)