Sandy Place
President CEO at WorkSight
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSandy Place is a veteran technology leader and CEO with roughly four decades of experience turning research-stage AI and operations research into commercial scheduling and payroll systems. He founded and scaled WorkSight, delivering cloud-native, microservices-driven SaaS that handles complex pay rules, union agreements, and tight payroll integrations for large enterprises. Earlier roles include CTO at Resonance and research work at BCIT where he pioneered symbiotic AI systems and crew-scheduling solutions that were commercialized and sold to Kronos. Sandy combines hands-on architecture and DevOps expertise with a knack for mentoring high-performance teams to improve efficiency and user experience. Based in Nanaimo, BC, he still draws on deep AI and multilingual computing roots—having built specialized tools like a Japanese word processor on commodity hardware—to solve practical enterprise problems.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Github Skills (111)
winston10
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logger10
pino9
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arm9
json9
persistent9
nodejs9
nodejs-library9
azure8
neo4j8
cypher8
javascript8
logging8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sandyplace/realtime_cluster
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
WorkSight/Neo4jtoKafka
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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