Tyler Weeres

Software Experience

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other business departments to determine and optimize product direction
• Design and develop product features and internal tools required to move the company forward
• Hire, onboard, and mentor developers as needed

Accomplishments:

• Took a data and evidence based approach to product management in order to maximize customer value
• Introduced a number of software development organization patterns in order to significantly reduce tech debt and improve maintainability of the codebase
• Established Software Delivery best practices including CI/CD pipelines to increase development throughput and decrease bug frequency/time to repair

Responsibilities:

• Empower developers to do their best work
• Ensure my team is constantly learning and improving
• Deliver quality software through my team

Accomplishments:

• Worked with my team to optimize the scrum framework for our needs
• Coached team members individually through regular one on one meetings
• Fostered a culture of teamwork, learning, and productivity within the team

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development for a brand new product
• Develop quality, maintainable software
• Provide mentorship to less experienced developers

Accomplishments:

• Successfully delivered the first iteration of a new product
• Architected pragmatic solutions to challenging technical problems
• Improved the quality of front end code at Checkfront through mentorship

Responsibilities:

• Work with potential customers to assess their business needs and identify solutions
• Set up marketing materials and maximize their effectiveness
• Perform software design and development for customers

Accomplishments:

• Provided successful software implementations for customers
• Learned best practices for running a consulting agency
• Advised customers on their software endeavours

Responsibilities:

• Work with product manager to define release scope and sprint planning
• Ensure team members are equipped to do their best work
• Work with team members to ship quality software

Accomplishments:

• Lead the development of Helm’s main product line
• Brought the software to feature complete and beyond
• Fostered a collaborative and constructive environment within the development team

Responsibilities:

• Develop software for Helm’s flagship product, Helm CONNECT
• Work in a scrum/agile environment

Accomplishments:

• Helped build a quality-focused work environment
• Ensured thorough code review and high software quality
• Received exceptional performance reviews

Responsibilities:

• Worked with various company divisions to develop custom applications that suit business needs
• Supported bug fixes and developed new functionality for existing applications
• Developed and supported a web-based intranet solution for a company of 1,400 employees

Accomplishments:

• Received Customer Service Awards on two occasions for performance working with various departments within the company
• Designed and implemented the majority of new applications and systems required by the company

Projects

I love building side projects, and I've done a lot of them! You can find an updated list at https://tweeres.ca/projects. Each item includes links to the project if applicable, and to the source code if I've open sourced it.

Development Technologies and Skills

Programming Languages

Javascript, Typescript, Ruby, Elm, PL/pgSQL, PHP, C#

Web Technology

HTML, CSS, React, Webpack, Sass, Progressive Web Apps, Service worker, JQuery, Wordpress

Server/DevOps Technology

Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Firebase, NGINX, Docker, Express, Linux (Ubuntu)

Methodologies

Agile, Scrum, Iterative Development, Incremental Development, Lean Development

Mobile

Progressive Web Apps, Responsive design, Mobile-first design, Offline-first design

Education

Years	Institution	Program
2006 − 2011	University of Victoria	Bachelor of Computer Science

Activities and Interests

Software, entrepreneurship, fitness, soccer, tennis, learning, reading, psychology, video games, music, guitar.