Rhys Bower

Software Engineer 👨‍💻

Hi, I'm a software engineer working on AWS Cloud Financial Management. I enjoy watching movies, swimming and hiking in my free time.

Below you will find my resume and more about me.

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Experience

Amazon Web Services

Software Development Engineer
January 2020 - Present

RedMane Technology Canada

Software Developer
  • Reduced deployment cycle from 1 day to 5 minutes by implementing an automated deployment pipeline. YAML
  • Automated over 200 hours of testing each month by developing an automated UI test system. (C#, Selenium)
  • Increased productivity of social workers by reducing the time to process month end reports by 680 times through caching repeated database calls. (C#, Selenium)
  • Drove UI standardization and developed several reusable UI components for our component library. (JavaScript)
  • • Actively involved in hosting career fairs and hiring the best talent for our Engineering team.
May 2018 - December 2019

The University of British Columbia

Teaching Assistant
  • Developed an assignment portal for over 4,000 students to download results and grades. (PHP, HTML, Racket)
  • Mentored 300+ students in weekly technical labs involving design and algorithms. (Racket)
May 2016 – April 2018

The University of British Columbia

Software Developer
  • Reduced administrative overhead by integrating the university’s single sign-on system using SAML 2.0 and class enrollment information pulled from LDAP to auto provision users each semester. (JavaScript, Node.js)
  • Maintained data consistency through all components by implementing Redux as the client data model. (React)
May – August 2017

Cific

Software Developer & Co-Founder
  • Increased revenue through a seamless checkout flow by integrating Stripe Payments into a cross-platform iOS and Android app. (JavaScript)
  • Enabled user purchases syncing to provide a consistent cross-device experience with Firebase. (JavaScript)
August 2016 – July 2017

Education

The University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Science
Major Computer Science with Distinction
September 2015 – April 2018

Skills

Languages
  • C#
  • Go
Web Technologies
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • SQL
  • MongoDB
Tools
  • Azure DevOps

Resume

Think I'll be a good fit for your team. Shoot an email to bowerrhys@gmail.com anytime. I'm happy to talk about exciting new software engineering opportunities.

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