Professional Summary
Over 15 years of progressive experience as a full-stack developer, with strong DevOps and Cloud expertise. Proven track record of modernizing enterprise infrastructure, delivering working software, mitigating technical debt, and designing robust CI/CD pipelines. Highly adaptable technical leader with consistent success driving cross-functional Agile/Scrum teams. Proficient with a broad diversity of full-stack technologies, but most notably C#.NET, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and SQL Server.
Professional Experience
Full-Stack Developer
Abrams Software Kingston, Ontario - Remote August 2025 - Present
- Architect and develop an online multiplayer space trading game. Produced functional design document, technical specifications, and implemented minimum viable product. (Node.js, TypeScript, Express.js, PostgreSQL) — Demo: twnr.paulabrams.ca
- Develop solutions for supervised fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLM) for large clients such as DataAnnotation.tech; evaluate code generation by applying expert code review combined with comprehensive unit testing. Consistently meet high-pressure deadlines. (JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET (C#), Python, React, SQL, REST, Node.js, MongoDB)
- Developed specialized chess training software integrated with Lichess.org API to help visualize board control and checkmating patterns. (React.js, TypeScript, OAuth2, REST) — Demo: paulabrams.ca/chess-attack-visualization
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure and Cloud Enablement
Employment and Social Development Canada (BDM Project) Gatineau, Quebec December 2021 - July 2025
- Enhanced and maintained microservices-architecture application for onboarding personnel; integrated with enterprise IAM in Azure AD and Azure DevOps mirrored in Entra (C# .NET, Blazor, HTML/CSS, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, APIM, GraphQL).
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines in ADO for build, test, and cloud deployments. Supported and advised other teams on pipeline implementation and management. (PowerShell, YAML).
- Developed custom ADO web extension applications (TypeScript, React) -- analytics widget for build/deploy metrics; Team Calendar leveraging sprint/iteration data.
- Administered Azure DevOps Services for all teams in the BDM project; advised on Agile process templates, branching strategies, PR workflows, and WCAG accessibility compliance.
- Implemented ITSG-33 (NIST-based) security controls for SA&A submissions against a PBMM security profile.
Development Lead, Testing Services
Employment and Social Development Canada Gatineau, Quebec August 2019 - November 2021
- Engineered ADO pipelines for automated testing, provisioning agent machines to execute parallel Selenium UI tests and seamlessly integrating logged test results back into ADO.
- Co-architected an internal web application enabling QA staff to author structured test scenarios via a web UI; designed the database schema and developed the C# code bridging the application with ADO.
- Championed the departmental transition from LoadRunner to JMeter, significantly reducing licensing costs.
Team Lead / Technical Lead
Department of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada Ottawa, Ontario April 2018 - August 2019
- Directed daily stand-ups and poker planning estimation sessions. Pioneered capacity planning and forecasting methodologies using Azure DevOps Server (TFS).
- Mentored full-stack developers in SSRS, T-SQL, C#.NET, and automated testing.
- Managed departmental TFS instances and maintained heavily customized Agile, Scrum, and CMMI process templates. Built custom web extensions using React.js, Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, and C#.
Development Lead
Department of Justice Canada Ottawa, Ontario January 2016 - March 2018
- Led enhancement and maintenance of the departmental case management system -- a high availability web application serving thousands of accounts across the country (ASP.Net, C#, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
- Mentored junior developers and integrated code review processes with TFS work items.
- Engineered MS Dynamics CRM plug-ins, custom actions, and processes; migrated legacy SQL stored procedures to the new CRM environment using C# and LINQ.
Senior DevOps & ALM Engineer
Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada Ottawa, Ontario April 2014 - December 2015
- Transitioned the department from manual, UI-based release procedures to fully automated CI/CD workflows.
- Slashed technical debt by replacing over-engineered legacy C# desktop applications with lightweight PowerShell scripts using the TFS Client APIs.
- Guided development teams in migrating from legacy XAML builds to modern, scriptable build definitions.
Full-Stack .NET Developer / SDET
Department of Justice Canada Ottawa, Ontario October 2006 - March 2014
- Core contributor to the flagship Legal Case Management System used by 5,000+ lawyers and agents across Canada.
- Modernized the CMS with a widget-based interface using Knockout.js and ASP.NET, reducing server load.
- Diagnosed a COM Interop memory leak across 11 servers and implemented automated health monitoring.
- Architected a custom Java-based test framework that reduced release validation time by 98% (80 person-weeks to 5 person-days), saving an estimated $160,000 per release cycle.
Education & Certifications