Connor Anderson
Director, Global Strategy & Transformation, Corporate Real Estate
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Anderson is a strategic leader with 11 years of experience blending procurement, supply chain and corporate real estate transformation across Big Four consulting and enterprise banking at RBC. Currently Director of Global Strategy & Transformation for Corporate Real Estate, he has rapidly progressed through senior procurement and transformation roles, known for driving cross-functional change and operationalizing strategy. Connor pairs a Rotman Commerce background in finance and economics with hands-on technical chops from open-source contributions—tackling Electron desktop features and Python web-scraping for Markov-chain projects—bringing both analytical rigor and practical engineering sensibility to complex programs. Based in Toronto, he focuses on continuous learning and leverages a rare mix of consulting discipline and developer experience to deliver scalable, tech-enabled solutions.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Finance and Economics, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom Finance and Economics at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
English, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
markov-chain10
multiplatform10
electron10
python10
linux10
cross-platform10
beautifulsoup10
webscraping10
twitter-api10
platform-independent10
desktop9
heroku9
build-automation8
git8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
wireapp/wire-desktop
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
:computer: Wire for desktop
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 42 PRs, 351 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Connor contributed primarily to the desktop application's Electron-based frontend, focusing on Linux-specific features and enhancements. They implemented tray icon functionality, enabled closing to tray behavior, and added features like menu toggles and auto-launch. Moreover, the user refactored the build processes, switching from NPM to Yarn and subsequently integrating electron-builder. They also addressed the Linux autostart behavior.
electronwindowslinuxdesktopelectron-app
tommeagher/heroku_ebooks
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
An archive of a script to generate Markov chains and to post to an _ebooks account on Twitter using Heroku. No longer actively supported.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Connor primarily contributed to the development of the `heroku_ebooks` project, which focused on generating Markov chains and posting to a Twitter account. Their work included implementing web scraping functionality using Python libraries like `BeautifulSoup` and `urllib`, allowing the script to extract text from web pages to use as a source for generating tweets. They also improved the code by adding error handling and allowing for multiple data sources (web scraping, static files, and Twitter accounts).
herokuebookspythonmod-manageraccount
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