{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Greg Roy", "label": "Interim Chief Technology Officer & Platform/SRE Engineer", "image": "https://gregsplace.cc/greg-headshot.jpg", "email": "greg@gregsplace.cc", "url": "https://gregsplace.cc", "summary": "Interim CTO at MetricAid Inc. and seasoned engineering leader with 20+ years across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem stacks. A talent magnet who pairs strategic technical leadership with hands-on delivery — shipping backend services in Go, native iOS/visionOS in Swift, and cross-platform mobile in React Native, while operating a production homelab.", "location": { "city": "Nipissing First Nation", "region": "Ontario", "countryCode": "CA" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "greg-roy-kudzu", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-roy-kudzu" }, { "network": "Forgejo", "username": "greg", "url": "https://git.gregsplace.cc/greg" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "MetricAid Inc.", "location": "North Bay, ON", "position": "Interim CTO / TechOps Analyst / IT Administrator", "startDate": "2025-09", "summary": "IT Administrator (Sep 2025) → TechOps Analyst (Mar 2026) → Interim CTO (May 2026, covering maternity leave). Leads technical roadmap, architecture, and cross-functional engineering coordination for a healthcare scheduling SaaS.", "highlights": [ "Stepped into Interim CTO responsibilities in May 2026, leading technical roadmap, architectural decisions, and cross-functional engineering coordination during executive maternity leave.", "Drove EKS platform migration — moving Go microservices from EC2 to Kubernetes via Helm + ArgoCD; provisioned AWS Identity Center and an EKS dev environment for the engineering team.", "Executed a live RDS migration from prod-cluster to metricaid-prod with zero application downtime; resolved decade-old logical replication lag caused by missing table publications.", "Established the organization's first structured IT foundations: endpoint management (TacticalRMM), secrets management (Infisical), container orchestration (Komodo), and CI/CD (Forgejo Actions) across all services.", "Presented to the board-level Tech Sub-Committee on infrastructure modernization progress and platform roadmap." ] }, { "name": "Index Exchange", "location": "Toronto, ON", "position": "Engineering Lead Manager", "startDate": "2018-08", "endDate": "2024-09", "summary": "Seeded, defined, and grew specialized teams focused on database platforms, developer experience, and operational excellence.", "highlights": [ "Grew the engineering team from 15 to 35, managing up to 21 engineers at peak.", "Designed on-call Standard Operating Procedures and organized operational-excellence reporting metrics across all pre-production environments.", "Collaborated with the dev community to produce rapid POC environments and coordinated NOC/Dev/Ops for non-prod and production component delivery.", "Provided risk assessment and strategic analysis on greenfield initiatives; ran periodic SWOT analysis across wider teams.", "Mentored junior engineers in their career development.", "Stack: Go, Perl, Apache, MariaDB/Galera, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Vertica, GitLab EE, Redis, ESXi, AWS; GitLab pipelines, Ansible, Terraform." ] }, { "name": "BiblioCommons", "position": "Manager, Infrastructure Operations & DevOps", "startDate": "2017-07", "endDate": "2018-08", "summary": "Mandated to evolve and build the DevOps team supporting Dev, QA, and Product under a Kanban workflow.", "highlights": [ "Built non-prod environments and code-escalation pipelines for release management across divisions.", "Led a team of 4 (half remote, half in-office).", "Stack: Tomcat, Rails, Jetty/Java, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo, Solr — on-prem and AWS managed with Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation." ] }, { "name": "Sysomos", "position": "Senior Manager, Infrastructure Operations", "startDate": "2015-03", "endDate": "2017-05", "summary": "Led DevOps and Operations teams driving successful production releases.", "highlights": [ "Maintained two physical data-centre environments plus AWS infrastructure with a team of 10.", "Rotated team membership across product development teams to maintain constant product exposure.", "Built the framework for automating provisioning of bare-metal and VM instances, code deployments, and self-healing services.", "OSS stack: Nginx, Tomcat, standalone Java, Solr, HBase managed via Puppet." ] }, { "name": "eBay Canada", "position": "Senior DevOps System Engineer", "startDate": "2012-10", "endDate": "2015-03", "summary": "First member of the Canada Site Operations team; led the site migration of eBay Classifieds — Kijiji Canada.", "highlights": [ "Worked directly with the Canada Product Development team; onboarded and integrated additional DevOps members around Agile Scrum and Kanban.", "Built Production, Load & Performance, UAT, QA, and SIT-CI environments — Tomcat, MySQL, Solr, Hadoop, Riak using Puppet (2.7→3.6) and Debian Wheezy→Ubuntu 14.04." ] }, { "name": "Nerve Gaming Inc.", "position": "Senior Systems Administrator", "startDate": "2011", "endDate": "2012" }, { "name": "VeriSign Inc.", "position": "Senior Systems Administrator", "startDate": "2009", "endDate": "2011" }, { "name": "IBM Canada", "position": "Systems Administrator — 3rd-level support", "startDate": "2007", "endDate": "2009" }, { "name": "Groove Media Inc.", "position": "Senior Systems Administrator", "startDate": "2006", "endDate": "2007" }, { "name": "Flight Centre", "position": "Senior Systems Engineer", "startDate": "2004", "endDate": "2006" }, { "name": "Hewlett Packard", "position": "Software Deployment Analyst (contract)", "startDate": "2002", "endDate": "2003" }, { "name": "enTrac Technologies Inc.", "position": "Network & Infrastructure Administrator", "startDate": "2001", "endDate": "2002" }, { "name": "Ontario Securities Commission", "position": "Project Manager, Y2K Compliance", "startDate": "1998", "endDate": "2000" }, { "name": "Workplace Safety & Insurance Board", "position": "Y2K Project Team", "startDate": "1998", "endDate": "1998" }, { "name": "Digital Equipment of Canada", "position": "Team Leader, Client Support Services", "startDate": "1996", "endDate": "1998" } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Canadian Institute of Business", "location": "Sarnia, Ontario", "area": "Programming & Network Administration", "studyType": "Diploma", "endDate": "1995-01", "courses": [ "VB and C programming (VBA under MS Office, MS Visual Basic 2.0, Turbo C)", "Network Administration (NetWare 3.12, Windows NT 3.51 Domain Administration, TCP/IP Fundamentals, Networking Essentials)" ] } ], "projects": [ { "name": "Project Lattice — Spatial Infrastructure Controller", "description": "visionOS application that renders live IT infrastructure as an interactive 3D spatial graph — gaze to inspect, pinch to drill in, speak to act. Go backend unifies polled data from Proxmox, Docker Engine, and a pluggable Poller interface (Kubernetes, Cloudflare, OPNsense, Forgejo, AWS) into a thread-safe graph model served over REST.", "keywords": ["visionOS", "Swift", "RealityKit", "Go", "WebSockets"], "url": "https://lattice.gregsplace.cc" }, { "name": "NFN Connect — Community iOS App for Nipissing First Nation", "description": "iOS app keeping Nipissing First Nation members connected on- and off-reserve: synced community events, searchable Enkamgak newsletter archive, staff directory of 173+ contacts across 12 departments, one-tap emergency hotlines. Offline-first, push notifications, accessibility-conscious UI — designed, built, and shipped to the App Store solo.", "keywords": ["React Native", "Expo", "TypeScript", "iOS"], "url": "https://nfn-connect.gregsplace.cc" }, { "name": "MyPepTracker — Peptide Protocol Tracker for iOS", "description": "Native iOS app for tracking peptide reconstitution, dose scheduling, and injection-site rotation with reminders and cycle progress. Privacy by architecture — 100% on-device, no account, no server, no analytics.", "keywords": ["Swift", "SwiftUI", "SwiftData", "iOS"], "url": "https://mypeptracker.gregsplace.cc" }, { "name": "myFaxxer — Pay-Per-Fax iOS App", "description": "iOS app that sends a PDF as a fax for a per-page fee via Apple In-App Purchase. Self-hosted FastAPI backend fronts the SignalWire Fax API; server-authoritative page counting and credit ledger reconcile against Apple StoreKit Server Notifications (ASN V2).", "keywords": ["Swift", "SwiftUI", "StoreKit 2", "FastAPI", "SignalWire", "iOS"], "url": "https://myfaxxer.gregsplace.cc" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Engineering Leadership", "keywords": ["Team building", "Mentorship", "Recombinant teams", "SWOT analysis", "Strategic roadmap", "Board reporting"] }, { "name": "Platform Engineering & SRE", "keywords": ["Incident management", "On-call SOPs", "Resiliency & steady-state doctrine", "Operational excellence", "Site migrations"] }, { "name": "Cloud & Infrastructure", "keywords": ["AWS", "Kubernetes", "Amazon EKS", "Helm", "ArgoCD", "Terraform", "Ansible", "Infrastructure as Code", "PostgreSQL"] }, { "name": "Software Engineering", "keywords": ["Go", "Swift", "SwiftUI", "RealityKit", "visionOS", "TypeScript", "React Native", "Expo", "CI/CD"] }, { "name": "Self-hosted Platform", "keywords": ["Proxmox", "OPNsense", "Caddy", "Forgejo", "Infisical", "Komodo"] } ], "meta": { "canonical": "https://gregsplace.cc/resume.json", "version": "1.0.0", "lastModified": "2026-06-27" } }