I am an enthusiastic software developer with experience designing, building, and operating high scale, distributed web applications in Publishing, Advertising, Communications, E-Commerce, Logistics, and Education for startups, small to medium businesses, and enterprise.
Experience
Greg Daynes Consulting Senior Developer / Sys Admin / Project Manager
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Providing support and augmentation to development teams, recover unmaintained/acquired software, greenfield project development, sysadmin and devops.
Long term maintenance (> 10 years) on Britsh Columbia Golf association platform. In 2025 I was contracted to rebuild it to support another 10 years.
Application security, threat protection, preventative planning, development of proven backup procedures for fast recovery, AI abuse, audit and postmortem reporting.
Augmented a medium-sized Shopify theme development company to raise their engineering standards, practices, and accelerate development.
Created a Digital Art Management System for distribution of unity and unreal game content
Recovered development of abandoned Shopify application after acquisition. Furthering development for 2 years.
Developed a time & asset management platform in use by Netflix, Disney, SyFy, and independent studios.
Development and maintenance of a dozen news media and interest sites for British Columbia Golf Association, PGA of BC, Western Canada Turfgrass Association.
RaceRocks 3D Principal Developer
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RaceRocks 3D provides advanced, next-generation e-learning solutions for the Canadian Defense Industry, primarily the Royal Canadian Navy.
Lead development for logistics planning and maintenance visualization tools for multi-decade cycles
Lead engineering for an internal tool to assist with educators creation of learning courses utilizing Augmented/Virtual reality and motion platform based training.
Assisting Virtual Training team to deliver client projects in Unity and Unreal engines.
Research, Develop and Report on numerous topics such-as client vulnerabilities, auditable systems, data privacy.
Pixel Union Developer
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Pixel Union Apps Team now Orbit Apps, provides applications on the Shopify App Store.
As an individual contributor on the diverse and distributed team, I had to be flexible in languages, tooling, and frameworks to work effectively and efficiently.
Organized weekly cross-team one-on-one meetings to facilitate communication and inclusion of remote employees as well as drive collaboration across divisions. This created a collaborative, friendly environment for the title where people could lend their passion and knowledge.
Maintenance and development of acquired applications with large user bases and even larger customer demand.
Mastery of multiple languages and services to work effectively. These were primarily Javascript, Typescript, Elixir, PHP, Postgres, and React
DevOps Days: Victoria Co-Host
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An annual semi-formal conference around DevOps, Sysadmin and Infrastructure in Victoria, BC.
As a member of a team of 6, I had to juggle many responsibilities to deliver a high-quality conference to attendees, including audio and visual production, design and branding, production coordination and admission
Stembolt & Juul Labs Developer
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Stembolt was the official maintainer of Solidus E-commerce platform, and provided consulting services to many large, high profile clients.
My role was as a consultant, embedded in client in-house teams to augment their development of Solidus based stores.
Stembolt was acquired by Juul Labs in 2018.
Development of the customer service portal and built product service and warranty application to reduce dependence on manual support, including automation of RMA request, logistics, fulfilment, and Salesforce integration.
Integration with 3rd party vendors providing Age Verification for online JUUL store and second generation device. This included travelling to South Korea to work directly with vendors on a tight schedule.
Built phone verification system for 2FA, Track & Trace of purchases across international e-commerce shops and brick & mortar stores.
Worked as a consultant for clients, embedded in their in-house development teams to help their project succeed.
Migration of e-commerce sites form Magento to Solidus.
RingPartner Inc. Developer
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Primary developer on a Advertising Demand Side Platform for high-volume auction markets. Architecture was focused on performance, reliability and maintainability. Strict performance and uptime requirements required heavy optimization and testing.
Planning & development on infrastructure architecture around Containers, SmartOS, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines.
Lead training, education, and peer review of current and upcoming practices to keep the development team productive and up-to-date.
Inside Golf Inc. Head of Design & Development, Sysadmin, Office IT
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Inside Golf Inc is a leading provider of regional Golf News across Western Canada, Providing design services and web development to various Associations and developments.
Creation of advertising, and production coordination for full colour, gloss magazines.
Lead design on large scale gang runs of printed products, coordinating multiple printing facilities to deliver high quality print productions with very tight timelines.
Developed and maintained web properties, including marking sites, invoice payment gateways, news aggregators, Joomla! sites, and CRM databases. —