Greg Havekes

Golf Avenue, Montréal, QC

• Led a team of up to 5 full stack and BI developers, providing technical guidance and feedback to ensure successful project delivery
• Designed and developed a high-performance microservice for real-time price computation, achieving sub-100ms response times for business-critical operations (prototyped using FastAPI, ultimately implemented with Laravel)
• Led refactoring of the ERP's three largest modules, unifying business logic and integrating processes and data from an acquired company to enhance scalability
• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to design solutions aligned with operational needs, resulting in streamlined workflows
• Worked with the procurement team to implement a dynamic pricing algorithm, optimizing margins based on market demand and inventory levels
• Built Grafana dashboards for real-time monitoring of sales, purchasing, and pricing KPIs, enabling better decision-making
• Revamped operational support procedures, reducing average resolution time from 1 week to 24 hours
• Contributed to talent acquisition, participating in interviews and assessments

Golf Avenue, Montréal, QC

• Refactored the Laravel-based ERP monolith into modular components, improving maintainability and deployment speed
• Developed and deployed features for shipping, purchasing, pricing, and inventory management while concurrently refactoring the ERP system
• Championed best practices including automated testing (PHPUnit), static analysis (PHPStan), and code reviews via training and documentation, boosting code quality
• Documented modular architecture and interactions using diagrams, facilitating team onboarding and future development
• Integrated and replaced legacy systems from an acquired company, streamlining their functionalities into the core software stack