Greg Somers
Principal Software Architect at BlackBerry
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGreg Somers is a Principal Software Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native, SaaS telematics platforms for BlackBerry Radar. He combines deep academic research in parallel systems and multi-GPU acceleration with pragmatic leadership in SRE, DevOps, and microservice design to deliver highly performant, secure systems at scale. Greg drives platform strategy, Kubernetes operations, data pipeline and analytics design, and API/messaging architecture while mentoring teams and defining engineering standards. His background spans full-stack development, CI/CD automation, and prior work on IBM Cognos and Watson Analytics, where he optimized UI testing and deployment workflows. Based in Ottawa, he brings a rare mix of circuit-level research insight and production-grade cloud engineering that informs efficient, data-driven system design.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.Sc Electrical Engineering, M.A.Sc Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
shopping-cart10
symfony-bundle10
ecommerce10
restful-api10
php10
api10
symfony10
sylius10
rest-api10
bundle9
routes6
apache6
displays4
parameterized3
jenkins-ci3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gregsomers/ftPlatform
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 months
gregsomers/ft-application
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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