Professional history / 01—08

The path was never
a straight line.

It moved from understanding how systems break, to building them, delivering independently, creating products, founding a company, and solving open-ended problems across business and technology.

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01
The foundation

CIBC

Test Analyst - Intern

The journey started close to software quality: understanding expected behaviour, finding failure points, and learning that reliable products begin with careful questions—not assumptions.

Quality · Systems thinking · Detail
02
From testing to building

Autoly

Full Stack Developer - Intern

Moved closer to product creation and implementation, turning an understanding of how software fails into a stronger instinct for how it should be designed and built.

Engineering · Products · Execution
03
Enterprise depth

CUMIS

Junior QA Analyst - Intern

Built experience inside an enterprise environment where dependable delivery, collaboration, maintainability, and the realities of production systems matter as much as the code itself.

Enterprise · Delivery · Reliability
04
Broader ownership

CGI

Software Engineer

Expanded across engineering and automation work, contributing to APIs, systems, and workflows while learning to connect implementation choices to measurable operational outcomes.

APIs · Automation · Impact
05
Independent delivery

Freelance

Freelance Software Engineer

Worked directly with real clients and businesses—translating open-ended needs into focused web products, making practical technical decisions, and carrying work through to delivery.

Clients · Web products · Ownership
06
From idea to product

Anonymate

Founder & CEO

Created an anonymous student community experience, connecting product thinking, user needs, interface decisions, and full-stack implementation in one self-directed build.

Community · Product · Full stack
07
Building from zero

Chaev Services

Founder & CEO

Crossed from engineering execution into company and product ownership—making architecture, product, business, prioritisation, and delivery decisions across the complete lifecycle.

Founder · Product · Architecture
08
September 2025 — PresentNOW

NuVista

Forward Deployed Engineer

Now working at the boundary of business, product, engineering, AI, cloud, and delivery—taking ambiguous problems, aligning stakeholders, and owning the path to a working production solution.

Discovery · AI · Cloud · Delivery
The through-line

Give me the problem.
Not just the specification.

Each chapter added a new layer: quality, engineering, enterprise delivery, independent ownership, product judgment, founder empathy, and confidence in ambiguous environments.

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