Connor Smyth

Engineering Team Lead @Noibu

Ottawa, ON, CA

Manage and mentor a team of 5 engineers with diverse skills and roles, focusing on professional growth and team cohesion.• Guide team members through performance coaching, supporting them in achieving key deliverables while fostering an environment of collaboration and trust.• Plan and facilitate quarterly in-person team on-sites to align on priorities, create roadmaps, and develop prototypes for upcoming deliverables.• Partner with product and design teams to define and deliver features that address user needs effectively.• Identify and resolve technical bottlenecks by proposing and implementing solutions that improve developer efficiency and reduce technical debt.• Oversee long-term and short-term projects to ensure timely delivery, within scope and budget, while tracking adoption and iterating based on user feedback.• Introduced and scaled the use of feature flags, leading to faster iteration cycles and enabling safer experimentation for design and engineering teams.• Collaborate with engineers on gap analyses and career development plans, supporting their growth into leadership roles like Engineering Manager and Staff Engineer.• Led the refactoring of the organization\'s GraphQL monolith API, improving API best practices for front-end integrations, and laid the foundation for a federated Apollo supergraph architecture using Apollo Router.

York University

Information Technology, Cognitive Science

William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute

High School Diploma