Savvica, 2004
E-learning. J2EE, then Rails. Acquired by Educomp.
I co-founded an e-learning company in 2004. We wrote it in J2EE, rewrote it in Rails, and sold it to Educomp.
Things I actually touched.
Fifteen objects. Pick one.
Work
Barclays Capital, 2006
Regulation W compliance. Credit pricing on the grid. Eleven engineers.
Embedded at Barclays Capital. I built a Regulation W compliance system and a structured-credit pricing engine, and moved the quants' Excel toolkits onto grid services. The team grew to eleven.
The Ontario bar, 2012
Articled at Davies. Called in 2012. Not practising.
I articled at Davies, was called to the Ontario bar in 2012, then ran my own employment and technology practice until 2016. I do not practise now.
Tim Hortons, 2017
3,500 restaurants. One espresso machine each.
Tim Hortons put espresso in every Canadian restaurant. I owned the program — vendor negotiation, product approval, installation — until 3,500 of them had a machine.
Milk, five years
Roughly 45 million litres a year.
I led procurement and negotiated a five-year national dairy supply for the Canadian restaurants. Roughly 45 million litres of milk and cream a year.
Lobo Genetics, 2018
A swab kit through Health Canada, and the lab that read it.
I wrote the entire backend in Rails, took a buccal-swab test kit through Health Canada, and stood up the certified lab that processed it. Entheon bought us.
Caravel, fractional
AI governance, privacy, licensing.
Technology counsel, fractional, alongside the operating jobs. AI governance, privacy under PIPEDA and GDPR, and SaaS and IP licensing from seed stage to enterprise.
Fishtail, 2022
Cross-border trade collateral. Rails on GKE.
I architected and built the trade-collateral platform — Rails, PostgreSQL and Hotwire on GKE, with real-time document processing — and ran the first pilots with smaller exporters.
City Lifestyle, 2024
180 magazines to 350. Twenty-one engineers.
CTO and general counsel. Twenty-one engineers through three leads. I wrote the sales qualifier in Symfony myself. The network went from 180 magazines to 350 while I was there.
AI Growth Labs, now
Founding engineer.
After the executive seats I went back to writing code full time. Being directly hands-on is where the work is, and it is how I learn.
Built alone
Blackline
Canadian employment and contract research, free.
Coding agents read a treatise corpus in a sandbox of your own and answer with the passage attached. Waitlist-gated early trial, free.
Open BlacklineGreenroom
Argue aloud against an AI jurist.
Upload the brief and the record, then argue out loud. The jurist interrupts with questions tied to a passage, and keeps the transcript. Invite-only beta.
Open GreenroomSlate
First-round voice interviews, scored against your rubric.
A recorded voice interview against the employer's own weighted rubric. A score may only cite that candidate's own answers. Live alpha, free.
Open SlateLintel
Ontario real estate, from the APS to the reporting letter.
AI real estate clerk and receptionist for Ontario lawyers. Send the APS; it carries the file to the reporting letter. The lawyer reviews, signs, registers and controls funds.
Open LintelMine
Not a job
The rest of it.
Not everything is a job.
