Josh Schuett

Software engineer with 6+ years of experience building backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, and automation tools across finance, SaaS, and data-focused products. Background in Industrial Engineering with strong experience improving workflows, reliability, and operational efficiency through software.

Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Open to relocate
Interesting fact I spent a year in Mexico City studying Spanish.

Experience

Software Engineer

VinAudit Inc.

Feb 2023 – Present Kirkland, Washington
  • Main developer for the Vehicle Specifications API; maintained 99.9% uptime SLA.
  • Led migrations of production services between hosting environments with zero downtime.
  • Integrated Canadian vehicle specifications data, expanding the product to Canadian clients.
  • Improved API consistency, data quality, and reliability by refactoring system architecture and workflows.
  • Prototyped new product concepts involving vehicle data.

Software Engineer

Revolution Capital

Apr 2021 – Feb 2023 Toronto, Ontario
  • Led development and delivery of an invoice ingestion pipeline using platform services.
  • Reduced operating costs through cost-efficient infrastructure choices.
  • Increased service reliability, data throughput, and operational capacity through cloud infrastructure.
  • Automated data input workflows, improving accuracy and entry efficiency.
  • Developed internal tools to improve system monitoring and support existing software integrations.
  • Strengthened system observability with real-time error alerts.
  • Integrated a build system to manage dependencies, test suites, and CI/CD builds.

Software Engineer

Leap Tools Inc.

Jun 2019 – Jul 2020 Toronto, Ontario
  • Integrated customer data into production ETL pipelines.
  • Onboarded approximately 20% of the company’s customers.
  • Built custom website integrations for customer deployments.

Decision Support Analyst

North Bay Regional Health Centre

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 North Bay, Ontario
  • Automated report creation and Excel data analysis by scripting in Python and utilizing Pandas.
  • Produced corporate reports and presented data-driven findings to executive leadership.

Operations Engineer

Zurn Industries

May 2016 – May 2017 Mississauga, Ontario
  • Purchased an enterprise maintenance management software system for a factory and led its integration.
  • Increased daily warehouse order fulfillment by optimizing product SKU allocations.
  • Managed warehouse workers to transport and receive inventory at a new warehouse.

Education

B.A.Sc., Industrial Engineering

University of Toronto

Sep 2013 – Jun 2018 Toronto, Ontario

Areas of study included operations research, production planning, supply chain logistics, quality control, human factors, and software engineering.

Projects

Chess Engine & Lichess Bot

A chess engine written in C with a Python foreign function interface.

Other

Lifeguard, Lifesaving Instructor, YMCA Instructor

YMCA Northumberland

Jun 2010 – Aug 2013 Northumberland County
  • Created and delivered lesson plans for Bronze Cross and Bronze Medallion certification courses, teaching lifesaving skills and evaluating participants against certification standards.

Skills

Python · PHP · JavaScript · Flask · Django · FastAPI · Svelte · Vue · Linux · Docker · Git · Ansible · Azure · AWS · MySQL · Redis/Memcached · Nginx · RabbitMQ · LLMs/OpenAI API · Proxmox