Hi, I'm Jonathan
I am a fourth year computer science student at Carleton University. I'm interested in Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Automation, and Cloud Architecture. Keep reading to learn more!
About
Certifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- CompTIA Security+
- Google Cybersecurity Professional & ISC2 CC
Prior Experience
- CGI: Developing secure full-stack solutions & integrating AWS cloud services
- Royal Canadian Mint: Data automation & Engineering
- LeagueKingdom: Founded profitable e-commerce platform
Personal Life
- Top 500 North America in League of Legends
- Training Muay Thai since 2022
- Driven by a passion for problem-solving and challenging myself
Featured Project
Production SaaS
ProductShotAI
AI-Powered Product Photography & Advertisement Generator
Full-Stack | Multimodal AI | Cloud-Native
Experience
Certifications
Software Engineer Co-op, CGI
Jan, 2025 - Present
- Delivered a critical payment processing application to ISED Canada adhering to PCI DSS compliance standards by developing the full-stack Java Spring Boot solution and collaborating with the cloud team on the AWS deployment lifecycle
- Reduced member registration approval time by several days by implementing secure file handling and ServiceNow integrations to eliminate manual email loops
- Resolved immediate team bottlenecks to save 5+ hours of weekly labor by developing ad-hoc Python automation scripts for repetitive tasks
- Reduced client report generation time from hours to minutes and eliminated human error by engineering an automated pipeline using Python (Pandas) and SQL to replace manual Excel workflows
Software Engineer Co-op, Royal Canadian Mint
Sep, 2023 - Dec, 2023
- Increased weekly reporting accuracy and saved several hours of manual data transfer by developing Python scripts to automate web scraping of table data and direct population of Excel reports
- Delivered over 62,000 ATM addresses by executing a large-scale national data collection project and developing a scraping script utilizing BeautifulSoup to iteratively simulate postal code entry
- Developed strategic improvement proposals by conducting distribution system analysis and blockchain technology research, presenting findings to senior leadership to guide future tech adoption
Founder & Full Stack Developer, LeagueKingdom
Jun, 2020 - Jul, 2022
- Scaled a full-stack e-commerce marketplace to support hundreds of active users and generate over $10,000 in revenue by building the platform from scratch using the MERN stack
- Streamlined digital fulfillment processing, increasing operational speed by over 1000%, by implementing Bash automation scripts to manage concurrent product provisioning on Linux VM infrastructure
- Maintained a 99% positive review rate by managing end-to-end technical support and resolving customer inquiries directly
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, AWS
Nov 2025
Skills Covered:
- Cloud architecture design patterns and AWS Well-Architected Framework principles
- Core AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, and CloudFront
- High availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery solutions
- Security best practices, IAM policies, encryption, and compliance on AWS
- Cost optimization strategies, resource tagging, and billing management
- Networking fundamentals, VPC configuration, and hybrid cloud architectures
Security+ (SY0-701), CompTIA
Jul 2024
Skills Covered:
- Enterprise security concepts, threat analysis, and risk management practices
- Network security configurations and vulnerability assessments
- Security architecture principles and implementation strategies
Cybersecurity Professional Certificate, Google
May 2024
Skills Covered:
- Python, Linux, and SQL for security threat identification and analysis
- Security automation tools and scripting techniques
- Incident detection, response procedures, and forensics
Certified in Cybersecurity (CC), ISC2
May 2024
Skills Covered:
- Security principles including Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery
- Access Controls (IAM) and identity management systems
- Network security fundamentals and security operations protocols
Projects
ProductShotAI
Built a production-grade multimodal AI SaaS platform that transforms product photos into studio-quality images and ad creatives using Google Gemini. Architected with Next.js, FastAPI, and AWS (ECS Fargate, SQS, DynamoDB) with Terraform IaC.
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- FastAPI
- Python
- Google Gemini
- AWS
- Terraform
- Microservices
