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