Developer Project Manager
Resume:
JOEY DEVILLA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
****@***********.***
http://globalnerdy.com
Currently on sabbatical, but actively blogging and studying iOS development
Trusted technical evangelist with a strong track record of community building
Dynamic speaker and presenter, comfortable in front of an audience, a camera or a microphone
Skilled technical writer with graphic design skills
Widely-read blogger with over 4.2 million pageviews in 2011
Seasoned developer who also likes to write essays, articles and documentation
Rock accordion/keyboard player with stage and studio experience
EXPERIENCE
PLATFORM EVANGELIST AT SHOPIFY, TORONTO/OTTAWA, CANADA MAY 2011 - MAY 2012
Promoted Shopify to three major audiences: merchants who were considering using Shopify to host their
ecommerce sites, developers who were considering development of apps for Shopify stores and designers
who were considering developing store themes.
Managed the Shopify Fund, a $1 million fund used to encourage developers to build apps of the Shopify plat-
form.
Editor and writer for Shopify's technology blog (http://shopify.com/technology), whose primary audience was
developers and designers building apps and themes on the Shopify platform.
Rewrote the documentation for the Shopify ecommerce API.
Represented Shopify on the 2011 BarCamp Tour (http://barcamptour.com), a multi-city tour run by Shopify and
four other startups that sponsored and actively participated in nine BarCamp "unconferences" across the
United States.
Promoted the company and its projects through my blogs.
DEVELOPER EVANGELIST AT MICROSOFT, TORONTO, CANADA OCTOBER 2008 - APRIL 2011
Rock and roll accordion-powered developer evangelist for Microsoft's web development tools and technolo-
gies.
Editor of the Canadian edition of "MSDN Flash", Microsoft's developer newsletter emailed every two weeks to
48,000 subscribers.
Microsoft Canada's most prolific blogger, blogging at the developer blog "Canadian Developer Connection"
and having written almost 750 entries since October 2008.
Track lead for the TechDays 2009 cross-Canada conference series; overseeing both developer tracks for
TechDays 2010.
Designated "Windows Phone 7 Champ", whose role is to promote Windows Phone 7 development to breadth
developers.
Promoted the company and its projects through my blogs.
NERD WRANGLER (TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER) AT B5MEDIA, TORONTO, CANADA
MARCH 2008 - SEPTEMBER 2008
Coordinated the activities of the b5 development team in building and maintaining its blog network, a
Wordpress-based custom blogging system supporting over 300 blogs.
Developed the specification for Textpods, a self-serve system that allows small-budget advertisers to purchase
text-link advertising on b5 s blogs.
Reviewed, triaged and prioritized of all outstanding projects.
Developed utilities in Ruby to automate the process of checking the entire set of b5 s blogs for the presence of
important components such as advertising, web statistics codes and blogrolls.
Promoted the company and its projects through my blogs.
SENIOR DEVELOPER AT TSOT INC., TORONTO, CANADA NOVEMBER 2007 - MARCH 2008
Co-led the development team in the design and implementation of FraternityLive and SororityLive, Ruby on
Rails-based Facebook-like web applications for college students in Greek organizations .
Spearheaded the efforts to build and improve project documentation and to improve product management.
Hosted and performed the opening monologue for Ruby/Rails Project Night, a monthly show and tell gath-
ering where local Ruby/Rails developers made presentations of their Ruby/Rails projects or a Ruby/Rails fea-
ture or technique.
Promoted the company and its projects through my blogs.
TECHNICAL EVANGELIST AT TUCOWS, TORONTO, CANADA JULY 2003 - NOVEMBER 2007
Promoted Tucows APIs and services to developers and the technical press.
Assisted developers in building custom software that used Tucows APIs and services.
Initiated projects to create easier-to-use client code libraries for the Tucows API (C# / PHP / Python / Ruby)
and wrote and tested Windows ports of the Client Code Suite (PHP 5).
Wrote documentation and tutorials for several Tucows APIs and services including Blogware user manuals,
installation and usage guides for the Client Code Suite, a series of articles covering the OpenSRS API and
white papers describing Tucows services.
Created, edited and wrote The Farm, a developer-focused blog with articles and podcasts covering the Tu-
cows platform, the domain name industry, web development and technology news. Peak readership: 30,000
pageviews/month.
Represented Tucows in local and national television interviews, industry conferences and gatherings for ISPs
and developers, and my blogs.
CHIEF PROGRAMMER AT HIS OWN BAD SELF, TORONTO, CANADA JANUARY 2002 - JULY 2003
Designed and developed custom applications for clients using a number of tools including C# 1.0 / .NET
Framework 1.0 / ASP.NET 1.0, NSBasic (development tool for PalmOS), PHP 4/5 and ASP / VBScript.
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPER RELATIONS AT OPENCOLA, TORONTO, CANADA/SAN FRANCISCO, USA
JANUARY 2000 - JANUARY 2002
Promoted the OpenCola platform (an application and platform that enabled recommendation-based search
and file sharing through a peer-to-peer network) to developers and the technical press.
Developed applications including:
OpenCola client v1.0 front end (Team leader, Visual Basic 6)
OpenCola client v2.0 front end (Team member, Visual C
Colavision: (Team leader, Visual Basic 6) OpenCola s first released application, which scoured Gnutel-
laNet for video and audio files and rebroadcast them using Windows Streaming Server.
Wrote the technical and user documentation for various OpenCola applications.
Represented OpenCola at various industry conferences and gatherings including the Intel P2P Conference,
Microsoft s 2001 mini-P2P conference in Redmond, O Reilly s first P2P conference and DefCon 2000 and
2001.
CHIEF PROGRAMMER AT DATAPANIK SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, TORONTO, CANADA
NOVEMBER 1997 - JANUARY 2000
Designed and developed custom business desktop applications for customers using either Visual Basic 5/6 or
Macromedia Director. Major projects included:
Shopping Directory on CD-ROM, 1998 and 1999 Editions: An encyclopedic directory of every shopping
center in the United States built for National Research Bureau in Chicago. (Visual Basic 5 for 1998 edition,
Visual Basic 6 for 1999 edition)
HPS Training System: An athlete progress-tracking system designed for High Performance Specialists, an
training facility for elite athletes including the Toronto Maple Leafs, Canadian Olympic ski and figure skat-
ing teams and the Royal Canadian Ballet. (Visual Basic 5)
PROGRAMMER / CHIEF PROGRAMMER AT MACKEREL INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA,
TORONTO, CANADA MARCH 1995 - MARCH 1997
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Developed CD-ROM and Shockwave applications for various clients including Dairy Farmers of Ontario, EMI
Records and Toyota with Macromedia Director 4/5.
Led development teams and participated in the development of Macromedia Director-based multimedia appli-
cations, both desktop and online.
Reviewed the then-available multimedia development applications to determine the one on which the company
would standardize; also researched up-and-coming technologies for their applicability for future development
efforts.
EDUCATION
Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada B.Sc., Computer Science, 1994.
SKILLS
Programming with the following languages, frameworks and tools (listed starting with the most recent use):
Currently learning iOS development with Objective-C/XCode, Objective-C/AppCode and RubyMotion.
Ruby and Ruby on Rails
C# development, especially for Windows Phone 7, ASP.NET MVC and WPF/Windows desktop
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Writing:
Extensive blogging experience, with my technical blog, Global Nerdy (started August 2006) and my per-
sonal blog, The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century (started November 2001). I have also
edited and written blogs for Shopify, Tucows and Microsoft Canada (during my tenure, I was Microsoft
Canada s most prolific blogger).
Preparing specifications for applications to be used by developers. These specifications including wire-
frames, user stories, statecharts, tables and written descriptions.
Documentation for both developers and end-users. Developer documentation included API documentation
and tutorials for programming using given operating systems, frameworks and APIs. End-user documenta-
tion was layperson-friendly and showed users how to use and make the most of various software.
Public Speaking: I have spoken at a number of conferences, including Microsoft TechDays 2008, 2009 and
2010 cross-Canada conferences, Stack Overflow DevDays, ConFoo and CUSEC. I ve also been the host of
Microsoft s Ignite Your Coding technical podcast series.
Event Organization: I have helped organize a number of developer events, including Microsoft TechDays (co-
ordinating the developer track), BarCamp events on the BarCamp Tour, Shopify s SxSW party, DemoCamp
Toronto and FailCamp.
REFERRALS
My most recent manager, Harley Finkelstein, Shopify s Chief Platform Officer (******@*******.***) would be
pleased to provide you with details about my performance, skills and character.
Other references are available upon request.
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