river stanley

software developer / project lead

Education

Candidate for Bachelor of Computer Science2020 – present
University of Waterloo
Candidate for Bachelor of Business Administration2020 – present
Wilfrid Laurier University

Cumulative GPA: 88.96%

Key areas: search • payments • frontend • backend • project leadership •

Languages: TypeScript • JavaScript • SQL • Kotlin • Ruby • HTML/CSS • PHP • French

Ramp | Forward-deployed engineeringFall 2025

Architected, coordinated, and implemented an integration with a key healthcare reporting & compliance partner, unlocking an estimated 20+ significant enterprise sales leads
Architected and implemented bulk expense attendee uploads, enabling over 5000 attendee uploads in a month and achieving table stakes for a key client to re-sign
Implemented self-enroll onboarding for a new healthcare reporting feature, reducing friction and CX support requirements
Recorded video communications to unveil and demonstrate new features for key enterprise clients

Splunk | Lake HouseSummer 2025

Independently overhauled a bespoke testing framework to enable parallel code execution, leading to a 6.6x (or 51 minute) reduction in time to first failure
Implemented parallel log4j logger / appender apparatus to enable distinguishing concurrent log output, eliminating shared resources between previously-serial threads
Added custom workarounds to Amazon EMR Serverless instances to further enable log tracking
Distributed approximately 300 food baskets weekly at food banks in San Francisco's SoMa and Mission districts

Wealthsimple | CardsSummer 2024

Played a key role in implementing a card rewards engine overhaul, processing 80 000+ daily transactions and enabling features including ATM reimbursements, cashback, and account-level rewards
Independently architected and implemented a rewards summarization system, delivering real-time, dynamic product content in-app to overcome mobile app update challenges
Oversaw the migration of 1000+ credit cards to a new engine while ensuring minimal user disruption
Proactively addressed and resolved cross-team concerns and system errors, reducing service failure resolution times

Faire | SearchWinter 2024

Implemented processes using DynamoDB and Redis to process up to 1.8 M real-time search update records daily
Led a full-stack initiative to split non-essential logic out of the search critical path, leading to a ~8% improvement towards our target latency
Investigated and implemented parallelization improvements across a complex, mature search infrastructure to achieve sufficient performance gains to offset high-latency changes elsewhere
Implemented and monitored metrics dashboards through Datadog to ensure services operated at target levels

Faire | EmailsWinter 2023

Managed the implementation of experimental features, coordinating engineers and designers to achieve goals
Independently scoped and implemented WCAG 2.1 accessibility features, drawing praise from external teams
Outlined and implemented incident post-mortem recommendations, improving engineering quality practices to prevent production failures
Contributed to overhauling a mature React-based web app to use modern React state management patterns with Jest unit testing and Cypress end-to-end testing.

Vidyard | WebWinter 2022

Led integration of Jest, ESLint, and TypeScript with a mature codebase, starting the team's use of test-driven development with 28% code coverage in two months to reduce and prevent user-facing errors.
Performed and improved on a WCAG2.1 accessibility audit to decrease UX friction and increase conversion.
Overhauled a PHP component library to implement object-oriented programming principles, decreasing ticket cycle time.
Collaborated with external teams to clarify requirements and deliver progress updates.

Uptake CanadaSummer 2021

Independently developed NestJS RESTful API endpoints and complex SQL stored procedures to support frontend specifications
Developed new frontend interfaces using ExtJS to support design specifications and display API data.

Salus GlobalSummer 2020

Designed and developed a mobile-friendly online eLearning platform for an international client with 2300+ total users, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and an internal language.
Entrusted with implementing CSS with minimal HTML changes to render an existing platform with 2500+ users mobile-aware
Developed and implemented JavaScript web components to promote user engagement with educational materials
Led the visual design work for a mobile eLearning app deployed to 10 000+ users
Edited supervisors' external communications to ensure greater professionalism and impact in dealings with clients.

2024 – 2025

Designed and developed a React Native mobile app to navigate users through real-world scavenger hunts
Built a map node retrieval pipeline to identify, rank, process, and retrieve locations of interest
Integrated OpenStreetMap datasets using the Overpass and OpenRouteService APIs to source GIS data

2022 – 2025

Led teams of software developers to redevelop the website of the University of Waterloo Undergraduate Society of Mathematics
Used simple technologies including pug and JSON data storage to ensure long-term maintainability
Performed gradual deployment of new site to over 1000 semi-regular users.

Fall 2024

Developed an indexer, ranker, and query-based summarizer for a 131 000-document collection of LA Times news articles
Implemented cosine similarity and BM25 retrieval methods with optional integration of Porter stemming
Obtained a high grade in the associated University of Waterloo elective course for which this was an assignment, MSE 541