Hi, I'm Gary 👋
Software engineer turned YC startup founder. I build modern software while teaching my newborn how not to fall off things.
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About

By 23, I had worked at 10 tech companies including Meta, NVIDIA, and Yelp. By 25, I had quit my full time engineering job at Meta to start my own company. I'm now 28, have raised $1.5M from YC and top tier VCs, and have a happy family with my wife and newborn daughter.

Work Experience

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S2 Creative Space Solutions

Sep 2024 - Present
Cofounder
Modern logistics software for Canadian interior design companies. All-in-one platform for inventory management, automated receiving house, order fulfillment, deliveries, and installations. Hit $1.5M ARR 2 months after launch.
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Airwork

Jul 2022 - Present
Founder and CEO
On-demand labour marketplace for actually good frontline workers in Canada. Backed by the cofounders of LinkedIn and Uber. Customers include Tesla, Toronto Pearson Airport, and the Canadian National Exhibition.
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Litebulb

Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Founder and CEO
Automated technical onsite interviews for software engineers. $1.5M pre-seed backed by YCombinator, Expa, Village Global, and Sahil Lavingia.
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Gaja Health

Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Lead Software Engineer
Community healthcare platform for underserved communities in the US. Backed by Anthem. Built the mobile app in Flutter.
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Meta

Oct 2019 - Jan 2021
Full-stack Software Engineer
Full stack developer on the Creator Studio team in the Videos org. Built Creator Studio Mobile, Messenger Co-watch, and Content Copyrighting infra.
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Nauto

Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Software Engineer
Fullstack engineer and tech lead on Nauto Explore, a dashboard for fleet managers to monitor their drivers and vehicles in real-time.
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Yelp

Apr 2018 - Aug 2018
Performance Engineer Intern
Built end-to-end performance analytics, request tracing, and computation scheduling with Golang, Python, and JS.
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Progressly

Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Mobile Engineer Intern
Operational performance management software, acquired by Box. Built the React Native mobile app for field agents.
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Nvidia

Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
CUDA Engineer Intern
Built hardware testing orchestration for CUDA GPUs. Built core components of ERIS infra to build, install, and test low-level display drivers.
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Veeva Systems

Apr 2016 - Aug 2016
Performance Engineer Intern
Performance engineer on Veeva Vault, a cloud-based document storage platform for pharmaceutical companies. Lots of JVM profiling with JMeter, NoSQL analyses, and scripting.
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Ericsson

May 2015 - Aug 2015
Application Developer Intern
First internship, built automated testing suite with JUnit for Ericsson Catalogue Manager.

Education

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Y Combinator

2022 - 2022
Winter 2022
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On Deck Founders

2021 - 2021
Batch 9
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University of Waterloo

2013 - 2018
Bachelor's Degree of Computer Science

Skills

React
Next.js
Typescript
Node.js
Flutter
Python
Golang
Postgres
AWS
GCP
Docker
Contact

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