Tom Pedron

About

Hey I'm Tom, I'm a Toronto-based Software Developer. I enjoy programming, being creative to solve problems and building exciting, interesting projects. I put this website together to present a bit about me, my experiences and what's going on in my life.

In 2019 I was nominated for the Biotalent Catalyst Award, given to the employee who has contributed most significantly to their Canadian biotechnology employer during 2018.

Some of my interests & hobbies include:

Software development
Hockey Data Analytics
Cheering on the Montreal Canadiens
Goaltending
Science Fiction

I'm a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a focus in Software Design.

I moved to Kingston in the Fall of 2010 - Spring 2013, completed a 16 month internship (2013 - 2014) at IBM (Markham) which contributed towards my degree, then moved back for my final year in the Fall of 2014 - Spring 2015 to complete my degree. In my final year I was on the Deans List for having a cumulative GPA over 3.50.

Later on in 2017, I began an online Professional Software Architect certification program through the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I completed the following courses:

Software Architecture: Principles and Practices (Completed in March 2017)
Documenting Software Architectures (Completed in August 2017)

I have achieved several AWS Cloud Computing certifications between 2020-2022 to take advantage of the extra free time I had due to the pandemic.

Check out these cool cats and dog!

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As mentioned in the hobbies page, I am an Ice Hockey goaltender in Toronto. I play on a regular B-level team and also moonlight as a rental goalie which technically makes me a "professional" athlete.

I rely on 2-pad stacks a little more than I should but it seems to work!

Feel free to reach out if you need someone to stand in your crease!

Skills

Computing

I have experience with many topics in Computer Science, including:

Object Oriented Programming & Domain Driven Design
Algorithms, Data Structures & Design Patterns
Databases (Relational & Non-Structured)
SOAP & REST API Design (JSON API Spec)
Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Networking
QA & Automated Testing
Hockey Data Analytics

Programming

I am proficient with many programming languages including:

Java
Ruby
Python
Go
SQL
Bash
C
C++
C#
HTML & CSS + Bootstrap
PHP
Javascript
R

Web Frameworks

I have written & deployed web services developed with the following HTTP frameworks:

Ruby on Rails
Spring Boot (Java)
JAX-WS (Java)
Jersey (Java)
Django (Python)
Gin (Go)
Buffalo (Go)

Experience

Career

I have gained valuable work experience in my career so far, including:

Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Copper (October 2020 - Present)
Freelance Software Engineer (October 2018 - Present)
Backend Software Engineer @ Cover (August 2019 - September 2020)
Backend Developer @ Ample Organics (January 2018 - July 2019)
Solutions Architect Consultant @ Munvo (Formerly Client Spectrum) (May 2015 - December 2017)
Teaching Assistant (Cisc 332 Database Management Systems) @ Queen's University School of Computing (January 2015- April 2015)
QA Developer (Internship) @ IBM (May 2013 - August 2014)
Student Developer @ MarketWired (Summer 2012)
QA Analyst @ MarketWired (Summer 2011)

View my Linkedin profile here.

Certifications

I'm continuing to work on improving my skillset with certifications such as:

AWS Certified Developer - Associate (March 2022)
Player Performance and Roster Management (Data Analytics in Sports Law Program @ University at Buffalo) (December 2021)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (June 2020)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (April 2020)
GCP Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (April 2020)
IBM Interact V9.1.x Professional Certification (April 2017)

Freelance

Open For Business

I am available for part-time freelance work!

Rapid Prototyping
Technical Consulting
Backend REST API Development
Cloud Technology (AWS)
Technical Documentation
Education/ Mentorship
Database & SQL Optimization
Hockey Data Analytics

Please get in touch with me to discuss further!

Previous Freelance Work

Below is a summary of the freelance work I have done so far:

(December 2020 - March 2021): Provided consulting and oversight services to a team that was building an automated data pipeline using AWS Lambda, Glue (Python, Spark), Step Functions, S3, and RDS.
(July - September 2020): Developed a cloud-based application for a client with a serverless backend using AWS API Gateway, Cognito, DynamoDB and Lambda functions written in Python. Provided a full suite of technical documentation including UML architectural diagrams, OpenAPI schemas, and deployment and configuration guides for all AWS services.
(October 2018 - April 2019): Delivered a complete implementation of “Snowplow”, an open-source, enterprise-strength marketing and product analytics platform (see: https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow). Provisioned and configured various AWS services including EC2, Cloudfront, S3, EMR, RDS and Redshift. Developed a demo ECommerce website integrated with the Snowplow JS library and Google Tag Manager. Wrote SQL scripts that perform data aggregation & analysis to provide insight into customer behaviour.

Projects

Fantasy Hockey Helper (2021 - Present)

FantasyHockeyHelper.ca is a website designed to help you optimize drafting your Fantasy Hockey team! Think "Money-Ball" but for hockey pools.

It is written in Ruby on Rails and deployed on Heroku with a Postgres database for storage. Domain is manage via AWS Route53, DNS is maintained Via CloudFlare. To read more about the makings of this project, check out this blog post.

Rotten Tomatoes on Cineplex Chrome Extension (2020)

A Chrome Extension written in Javascript that loads the Rotten Tomatoes "Tomato Score" for movies listed on various Cineplex.com listings and injects them right into the page to help you pick a movie.

You can view the project on Github.

TomBox S3 (2020)

This Ruby script monitors a configured directory's contents and keeps them synced to a remote AWS S3 bucket in the style of Dropbox.

You can view the project on Github.

Some Other Projects

@FamilyGuyShots Twitter Bot: Bot account that posts a random screenshot from an episode of Family Guy to Twitter everyday. It is written in Ruby using the Twitter and FFMPEG gems running on a Cron job on my local machine. (2021)

My Walking Garden: A health based mobile game developed with a team as a final project for CISC 496 at Queen's University. (2015)