Patrick Houlding
Director Of Software Engineering at Veranda Digital Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPatrick Houlding is a Director of Software Engineering with 10 years of experience building cross-platform mobile and backend systems, currently leading development at Veranda Digital in Toronto. He combines hands-on app development expertise in Flutter/Dart and Kotlin with system design and scalable backend work (Knex.js, OpenAPI) to turn proofs-of-concept into production-ready products. His academic background (MSc Computer Science, University of Guelph) and research in MANETs and clustering algorithms inform a practical interest in data science, ML, and alternative networks aimed at bridging the digital divide. Patrick has a track record of improving developer onboarding and CI/CD practices, and has increased user engagement through features like integrated tipping and feedback systems. Outside work he’s an outdoor enthusiast and avid Formula 1 fan, bringing the same focus and speed to product delivery as to his hobbies.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Royal St. Georges CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Guelph
English
Github Skills (7)
ns38
simulate8
masters7
scheme6
clustering5
distributed-computing4
raft2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PHoulding/ecs-clustering
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
Work for my Masters thesis. Currently implementing the Efficient Clustering Scheme in ns3 to simulate on varying sizes of communities.
Contributions:90 commits, 6 PRs, 75 pushes in 11 months
schememastersmasters-thesisns3communities
Veranda-Digital/veranda-api-documentation
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:37 pushes in 7 months
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