I've been building things since I was a kid. First, it was making Lego cars, constructing pillow forts, and piloting blanket space-ships. In grade school I was programming video games, writing stories, and starting my first business. While earning my Mechatronics Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo I began writing software and building robots for a variety of amazing Canadian tech companies. Then I spent four years learning the ropes at a Waterloo startup as a developer and product manager while growing tech communities on the side. Somewhere along the way I started meeting founders and helping build MVPs and seed rounds. Eventually, I found my way to NYC where, as CTO, I built the technology team for an enterprise edtech startup from accelerator to acquisition, and then led the combined 100+ person engineering organization to scale for success. Nowadays, I’m building another startup focused on data privacy, but not that much has really changed... I'm still an absent-minded kid with an over-active imagination, a love for technology, and a desire to build software, hardware, and businesses around the stuff that excites me.
// Neville
QUALIFICATIONS
Dangerously fast learner, highly intuitive and adaptable
Proven technical leader, board-level executive, and manager
Led engineering teams from first commit, through fundraising, product-market fit, expansion, and successful acquisition
Experienced managing organizations both large (100+) and small, adapting processes and structures along the way
Efficiently managed $10M+ SaaS R&D budgets to plan including recruiting, infrastructure, payroll, services, etc.
Deployed data engineering, data science, and machine learning pipelines using Python, Airflow, Docker, Kubernetes
Built full stack web apps with React, Ruby on Rails, C#, AngularJS, .NET, Node.js, HTML, CSS, etc.
Entrepreneurial experience in a variety of verticals including data privacy, learning, talent, networking, and construction
Proficient software developer with Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, Python, C++, Golang, and others
Managed product roadmaps, defined requirements, performed customer discovery, etc.
Natural presenter and communicator, proficient technical writer
Effective project manager and team lead
Hardware and robotics experience from academic, work, and personal projects
WORK EXPERIENCE
November 2020 - Present
VP ENGINEERING | ETHYCA
August 2019 - November 2020
VP ENGINEERING | DEGREED
February 2019 - August 2019
VP DATA | DEGREED
June 2018 - February 2019
CTO, PATHGATHER | DEGREED
June 2016 - June 2018 (Acquired)
CTO | PATHGATHER
June 2014 - May 2016
LEAD ENGINEER | PATHGATHER
May 2013 - February 2014
TECHNICAL LEAD | BRIDGIT
February 2013 - June 2014
PRODUCT ENGINEER | AVVASI
May 2009 - February 2013
DESIGN ENGINEER | AVVASI
March 2013 - June 2014
LEAD ORGANIZER | HACKERNEST
Kitchener - Waterloo
2005 - 2009
VARIOUS SOFTWARE & ROBOTICS INTERNSHIPS | VARIOUS
EDUCATION
2005-2010
B.A.Sc. MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
University of Waterloo