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basics:
  name: "Nadav Ami"
  label: "Software Engineer"
  email: "cv@nadav.ca"
  url: "https://nadav.ca"
  summary: >
    Backend engineer with 13+ years of experience building scalable distributed
    systems across SaaS, healthtech, and telecom. Recent focus on vector search 
    infrastructure, performance engineering at billion-row scale, and
    AI-accelerated development. Proven ability to lead complex initiatives
    end-to-end and drive engineering culture with empathy. Fluent in English and French.
  location:
    city: "Montreal"
    region: "Quebec"
    countryCode: "CA"
  profiles:
    - network: "LinkedIn"
      username: "nadavami"
      url: "https://linkedin.com/in/nadavami"
    - network: "GitHub"
      username: "nadavami"
      url: "https://github.com/nadavami"

work:
  - position: "Senior Backend Software Engineer"
    name: "OpenPhone/Quo"
    startDate: "2024-10"

  - position: "Cofounder & CTO"
    name: "Redeo API"
    startDate: "2023-04"
    endDate: "2024-09"
    highlights:
      - "Designed and implemented the full stack – frontend, backend, Cerbos-based RBAC with hot-pluggable personas, and FHIR-compliant immutable audit infrastructure – using React, NestJS, and TypeScript, deployed to Azure via Terraform."
      - "Built a domain-specific language to describe thousands of insurance PDF forms into dynamic web experiences with conditional field visibility and validation."
      - "Set technical strategy around security, API-first design, and lean CI/CD. Mentored a 5-engineer team and drove code quality improvements that reduced pentest findings by 90%."

  - position: "Senior Software Developer"
    name: "Crewdle"
    startDate: "2021-04"
    endDate: "2022-06"
    highlights:
      - "Developed key paid product features including WebRTC based recording and live streaming using Angular, TypeScript, and Electron, driving an increase in premium subscriptions."
      - "Mentored 3 software developers through in-depth code reviews and pair & mob programming sessions."
      - "Refactored a large codebase into modular front-end components and backend serverless functions, drastically reducing technical debt and enabling a major UX redesign."
      - "Reduced mean time to repair from multiple days to under 30 minutes by implementing automated releasing and auto-updating of the desktop application."

  - position: "Senior Technical Architect"
    name: "Bell Canada, IoT"
    startDate: "2019-03"
    endDate: "2021-04"
    highlights:
      - "Architected and deployed a hybrid cloud IoT platform that connected on-premise infrastructure with Microsoft Azure, enabling development to be accelerated by cloud services while remaining secure and cost-effective."
      - "Automated the platform onboarding for new teams using GitLab CI and Terraform, reducing the previously labour intensive multi-day process to a pull request and 15 minute pipeline."
      - "Built shared microservices and template projects that became department-wide primitives, cutting development costs and cycle time through code and infrastructure reuse."
      - "Supported 25 developers and architects across multiple teams through architecture/developer forums, code/architecture reviews, increasing engineering productivity and cross-team collaboration."

  - position: "Full-Stack Software Developer"
    name: "Bell Canada, IoT"
    startDate: "2017-12"
    endDate: "2019-03"
    highlights:
      - "Cut development costs, time to receive customer feedback and production defects by leading a department-wide shift to test-driven development, CI/CD, and clean code practices."
      - "Designed and implemented multiple robust microservices and Node.js libraries utilizing TDD and Jest for 100% code coverage, enhancing system modularity and reducing time to market for new IoT products."

  - position: "Full-Stack Software Developer"
    name: "Bell Canada, Network Tools"
    startDate: "2016-06"
    endDate: "2017-12"
    highlights:
      - "Developed an anti-spam system using Python and Elasticsearch, reducing unwanted text messages for 9M+ customers. Awarded a platinum merit award for the significant positive impact on customer experience."
      - "Created an outage visualization platform using Python, JavaScript and MySQL, resulting in increased service availability and executive visibility."
      - "Deployed and operated multiple systems including GitLab, Artifactory, Docker Swarm, Grafana and RedHat Satellite to virtual machines on OpenStack using Ansible and GitLab CI."

  - position: "Full-Stack Software Developer"
    name: "Freelance"
    startDate: "2012"
    endDate: "2016"
    highlights:
      - "Built over 30 websites and applications for clients across various industries, including an inventory system, cryptocurrency payment gateway, and QR-code based photo management tool."
      - "Delivered projects on-time and within budget for over 25 customers, leading to an 80% repeat rate."

talks:
  - title: "Visualizing Semantic Search in 3D"
    description: "Engineering all-hands demo using 3D space to explain vector similarity with live search results"
    year: "2025"
  - title: "Transluminal"
    description: "Hardware & software for a large art installation on permanent display at Dawson College"
    year: "2020"
  - title: "Learning by Failing (IoT Camera Hacking)"
    description: "Lightning talk at the Bell Software Developer Conference in Toronto"
    year: "2019"
  - title: "Effective CI/CD for Test Driven Development"
    description: "Talk on how to successfully implement CI/CD and TDD in a large corporate environment"
    year: "2018"

education:
  - studyType: "Computer Engineering coursework"
    institution: "Concordia University"
    startDate: "2018"
    endDate: "2018"
  - studyType: "DEC, Electronics Engineering Technology"
    institution: "Dawson College"
    startDate: "2012"
    endDate: "2016"

skills:
  - name: "Languages"
    keywords:
      - "TypeScript/JavaScript"
      - "Python"
      - "Go"
      - "Java"
      - "Shell/Bash"
  - name: "Frameworks"
    keywords:
      - "React"
      - "Angular"
      - "NestJS"
      - "Express"
      - "Electron"
      - "Jest/Vitest"
  - name: "Data & Messaging"
    keywords:
      - "PostgreSQL"
      - "MongoDB"
      - "Elasticsearch"
      - "Turbopuffer"
      - "RabbitMQ"
      - "Temporal"
  - name: "Cloud & Infrastructure"
    keywords:
      - "Azure"
      - "GCP"
      - "AWS"
      - "Kubernetes"
      - "Docker"
      - "Terraform"
      - "Ansible"
      - "GitHub Actions"
      - "GitLab CI"
  - name: "Practices"
    keywords:
      - "Test-Driven Development"
      - "CI/CD"
      - "Distributed Systems"
      - "API Design (REST, GraphQL)"
      - "Infrastructure as Code"
      - "Observability"
  - name: "AI"
    keywords:
      - "Claude Code"
      - "Cursor"
      - "RAG / Vector Search"
      - "Embeddings"
      - "Voyage AI"