Jesse Chahal

Absolute software is a software security company that focuses on visibility and control of hardware endpoints. They have been in the business for over 20 years and is the only company with true endpoint persistence software that ships out of the box on most computer hardware.

Accomplishments

• Created Helm charts and the docker images they referenced
• Implemented reusable jenkins pipeline libraries
• Help to lead transition to AWS from private data centers
• Ensuring AWS usage was meeting best practices and compliances such as: GDPR, SOCKS2, CIS Benchmark, etc..
• Wrote Terraform scripts against AWS 
• Performed basic penetration testing during company wide capture the flag competitions

Technology Stack
Kubernetes, Helm, AWS, AWS EKS, Terraform, Rancher, Docker, Ansible, GoLang, Jenkins Pipelines, Groovy, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Prometheus, MongoDB, Python, Gradle, Maven, Artifactory, Spring Boot, Java8, Git, AtLassian (Bitbucket, Confluence, Jira), Jetbrains (IntelliJ, PyCharm, GoLand), Linux, MacOS, Windows

Calabrio is revolutionizing the way enterprises engage their customers with Calabrio ONE®, a unified suite—including call recording, quality management, workforce management, voice-of-the-customer analytics and advanced reporting. The Vancouver office focuses on data analytics and advanced reporting.

Accomplishments

• Wrote new Rest Api’s following the Richardson Rest Maturity model
• Designed new micro-services that can be deployed in cloud SaaS and on-premise environments
• Maintained and extended the CI/CD pipeline as new services and requirements were introduced
• Transitioned AWS infrastructure to work similarly in on-premise environments
• Resolved customer escalations on both cloud and on-premise deployment
• Managed production deployments and unforeseen downtime
• Wrote and maintained operations tooling for managing AWS Cloud environments
• Implemented authentication bridges between OpenID Connect 1.0 and legacy authentication protocols
• Traveled to other cities to train implementation engineers
• Integrated existing software systems with both new custom systems and 3rd party solutions
• Worked a combination of remote and in-office based on current needs

Technology Stack
AWS, AWS ECS, docker, docker swarm, ESXi, HyperV, java8, javaEE, python, javascript, gradle, maven, pypi, dropwizard, wildfly, jenkins, rabbitMQ, redis, protobuf, boto3, elasticsearch, postgres, DynamoDB, eclipse, github, sensu, artifactory, pagerduty, slack, jira, confluence

Stytch is a cloud based data analytics platform with flexible self-service data preparation tools. Stytch is backed by Dun & Bradstreet, the world’s leading source of business information for over 175 years.

As a software engineer on the core platform team much of my time was focused on the development of Restful api’s and integration with our custom BI analytics engine. During a transition period our DevOps team had parted ways and much of my focus became working on operations related work.

Accomplishments

• Implemented a new security and identity service with support for OpenID Connect 1.0 (OAuth2) and SAML
• Wrote new Rest Api’s following the Richardson Rest Maturity model
• Led the transition of AWS infrastructure from virtual machines to docker
• Wrote the initial version of an On-premises stack while leveraging docker and related tools
• Wrote and initial framework for Java based micro-services using dropwizard and gradle
• Helped integrate communication with other services using protobuf and RabbitMQ
• Used Ansible to create application machine images for reuse
• Performed both downtime and 0-downtime production deployments, led the very first production deployment of Stytch
• Responded to production incidents through pagerduty while on call
• Transitioned from our custom python+boto server orchestration code to AWS Cloudformation
• Acted as the scrum master for my team
• Worked with our cross-functional continuous integration team to create our jenkins build pipeline
• Was the leader of the Ministry of Fun, responsible for planning team building events

Technology Stack
java8, javaEE, python, AWS, docker, docker-compose, gradle, maven, jenkins, OpenID Connect 1.0, OAuth2, OAuth1, pypi, dropwizard, wildfly, travis, rabbitMQ, redis, protobuf, boto3, ansible, elasticsearch, mysql, postgres, eclipse, github, sensu, artifactory, pagerduty, slack, jira, confluence

A software division of Dun & Bradstreet, the Cloud Innovation Center was responsible for building a new generation of global analytics products in the cloud.

During my time here I initially focused on writing selenium tests for our existing test framework. Later on I transitioned to focusing purely on API’s and created our automated Rest API testing framework.

Accomplishments

• Create a automated Rest Api Test framework which was used as the basis for other future projects
• Updated and managed cloud based test servers
• Created and maintained Jenkins builds
• Performed build acceptance testing

Technology Stack
java8, jUnit, gradle, OAuth1, eclipse, docker, postman, RestClient

Description/tagline explaing what the company does

I was brought on to help transition legacy software to the newer platform being rolled out across the Canada. The bulk of this transition required focus on creating 2 new information management systems to be used across BC and eventually propagate across Canada.

Accomplishments

• Designed and developed new web‐based, critical law‐enforcement software
• Integrated new software with legacy national applications
• Maintained and tested existing software systems
• Migrated legacy software to newer platforms and corresponding API’s
• Wrote automated build scripts using Ant
• Gathered requirements from multiple clients each of which performs a different job function
• Trained and directed a student developer in government software development practices

Technology Stack
jbossAS, javaEE, JSP, hibernate, mySQL, LDAP, OAuth1, eclipse, ant, IIS, windows server 2008, jQuery, visual basic for applications (vba), microsoft access, powerBuilder, microsoft excel

Description/tagline explaing what the company does

During my time here I focused on creating our Selenium testing framework and implementing tests within the framework. I performed both manual testing as well as automated testing.

Accomplishments

• Worked on a new cloud based enterprise software, its direct competitor was Google Wave
• Created scenario based manual test plans which I would than execute
• Performed BAT’s (Build acceptance test) after each new build was released
• Ensured new features were developed according to specifications
• Designed and wrote our automated Selenium test framework
• Designed automated integration tests using Selenium RC and Java
• Designed automated tests to be used against our RESTful API using JMeter
• Performed basic penetration/security testing through the web UI layer (XSS, SQL Injection, etc…)
• Managed our testing servers and deployed new builds to servers

Technology Stack
Java, selenium rc, jUnit, jMeter, maven, OAuth1, eclipse, centos, private cloud

Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada. Consistently ranked as Canada's top comprehensive university and named to the Times Higher Education list of 100 world universities under 50.

I majored in Software Systems, sometimes referred to as Software Engineering at other schools.

Examples of some of the courses I have taken:

• Database Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Artificial Intelligence Survey
• User Interface Design
• Software Engineering
• Software Development Methods
• Web-based Information Systems
• Principles of Compiler Design
• Networking Principles
• Software Quality Assurance
• Data Structures
• Web based Information Systems
• Comparative Programming Languages

S7 Gate Academy is a bootcamp that formed out of 7 Gate Ventures, a VC firm. 

• Went through the details of different cryptography primitives and different hashing techniques.
  • Keccak vs BLAKE2, SHA-3
  • synchronous and asynchronous encryption techniques
  • Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
• Inner implementation details of blockchain and related technologies.
  • Bitcoin - Proof of Work (PoW), UTXO 
  • Ethereum - EVM, Solidity, PoW, Proof of stake, Whisper, Truffle-framework
  • Zcash - zkSNARKS
  • Layer 2 scaling technologies: sidechains, channels
  • Decentralized Exchanges - 0x, InterLedger
  • IPFS - Filecoin
• Performed security reviews of Ethereum Smart Contracts and then proceeded to take control of  them on Ropsten TestNet (Pen/WhiteHat Testing). 
• Had many blockchain focused companies come in and explain their technical solutions 
• Technical Analysis (TA) strategies used by cryptocurrency traders.
  • TA patterns and indicators
  • Algo trading using custom made bots
• Business decisions many blockchain focused companies have to deal with
  • Legal compliance - KYC
  • Fund raising strategies
• Implemented our own blockchain focused technologies