Summary
Sheldon Porcina is a seasoned software leader with 12+ years building high-performance, scalable infrastructure and AI-enabled platforms across startups and large enterprises. He has a track record of turning complex systems into reliable production services—delivering multimillion-dollar savings at Intuit, zero-error processing of 17M daily transactions at Jobber, and enterprise search and conversational AI platforms that cut deployment times from months to minutes. A people-first manager and mentor, he grows distributed teams and raised observability from 20% to 95% while driving 100% uptime and stronger on-call practices. His strengths blend cloud-native engineering, data ingestion/search architectures, and practical AI integration to solve real business problems. Based in Sherwood Park, Alberta, he pairs a University of Alberta CS background with hands-on patents and industry recognition for shipping measurable user-impacting innovations. Not obviously apparent from titles alone, he also champions Agile adoption and estimation rigor, contributing to community practice and technical clarity behind the scenes.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Alberta