Summary
Gary Ogden is a Lead Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing scalable, distributed systems and microservice architectures for large datasets. Based in Quispamsis, New Brunswick, he has led engineering and architecture at Salesforce and previously served as Chief Architect for an energy optimization SaaS that leveraged Cassandra, Spark, Kafka and Mesos. He specializes in Java-based back-ends on Linux, RESTful APIs, and horizontal scalability using noSQL and streaming platforms to process high-throughput data. Gary blends deep technical ownership with product-minded system design, having been responsible for end-to-end technical direction of complex cloud solutions. His career traces steady progression from developer and consultant roles to senior architect and leadership positions, reflecting both breadth across telecom, utilities, and enterprise software and a knack for operationalizing Big Data stacks. Colleagues would note his pragmatic focus on reliable, maintainable systems rather than chasing the latest fad.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English