Greg Underwood

Full-Stack Software Engineer

greg.underwood.bc@gmail.comMeadow Creek, BC · Remoteunderwoodstyles.ca

Full-stack engineer with twenty years across web, mobile and cloud — Angular, Node/NestJS, Rails and AWS — who uses AI agent workflows to deliver at the pace of a team. Open to remote full-time and contract work.

Experience

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer · Sign In Solutions (formerly Traction Guest)

Feb 2019 – 2026 · Burnaby, BC · Remote

Lead developer on an enterprise visitor-management platform, owning features from architecture and proof of concept through CI, testing and living documentation.

  • One of two primary developers of Gateway, the suite’s single sign-on portal: an OAuth 2.0 authorization server on AWS Cognito with SAML SSO, MFA and per-product access.
  • Designed asynchronous service-to-service messaging on AWS SNS topics and SQS queues.
  • Worked on the access control integration, connecting visitor management to physical access systems.
  • Drove AI adoption across the organization: wiring AI into products, documentation and developer environments.
  • Led the AngularJS → Angular migration with a progressive micro-frontend architecture, moving the build from Grunt to webpack and onto an Nx monorepo.
  • Architected the embedded Sisense analytics integration: a Ruby API client, JWT single sign-on, and a multi-tenant microservice so many instances shared one reporting server.
  • Built the Angular front end for “Sparks” workflow triggers, including an architecture for deeply nested dynamic forms.
  • Became the authentication subject-matter expert: OAuth 2.0, shared sessions across AngularJS and Angular, and per-domain SAML.

Staff Product Developer · BMC Software (acquired Partnerpedia)

Jan 2013 – Feb 2019 · Vancouver, BC

Joined Partnerpedia as an intermediate developer six months before the BMC acquisition and grew into the lead developer for every Marketplace product.

  • Maintained white-label Rails marketplaces for VMware, Cisco, Avaya and Citrix, with Solr and Sphinx search, Salesforce data sync and Cisco SSO.
  • Took over the BMC Marketplace in 2014 and, with a team of two to three, replaced a custom Closure-based front-end framework and an unnecessary microservice split.
  • Rewrote the API and delivered the storefront and admin as one modular Angular 6 application with prerendering and lazy-loaded modules — on a maintenance budget.

Lead Software Developer (contract) · Spruik

Mar 2012 – Dec 2012 · Vancouver, BC

Built the proof of concept for a referral-sharing app with micropayments, from start to demo in five months.

  • Rails API with a mobile-first Backbone.js front end on Foundation, built heavily on the Google Maps APIs.

Earlier work

  • Officepools2010 – 2011 — Performance and features for a high-traffic Django/PostgreSQL hockey-pool platform through peak season.
  • Xomo Digital2009 – 2010 — Designed and built the BlackBerry event guide promoted as the official guide to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.
  • Blast Radius2009 — Back end for the Starbucks VIA launch site in .NET MVC, against a four-week deadline.
  • Consensus Medical Systems2009 — Started the web rewrite of a vascular-study system with NHibernate and Silverlight.
  • Resilience Software2005 – 2009 — Medical activity tracking on C#/ASP.NET and Python/TurboGears, with sync protocols for Palm, Pocket PC and BlackBerry clients.

Skills

AI-assisted delivery
Claude Code & agent workflows, LLM integration (Claude API), Speech-to-text pipelines, Agent-ready repos & docs
Front end
Angular, TypeScript, React, Vue, AngularJS migration, SSR & SEO, Accessible, responsive CSS, Micro-frontends
Back end & APIs
Node.js, NestJS, OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT, Ruby on Rails, Django, .NET MVC, REST API design
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (Cognito, SNS, SQS), Docker, Nx monorepos, CI pipelines, nginx & Linux, Queues: Redis, RabbitMQ, MQTT
Data
PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, TypeORM
Languages
TypeScript / JavaScript, Ruby, Python, C#, Java, SQL, C / C++, PHP
Mobile & devices
Flutter, iOS & Android, BlackBerry, Palm, Pocket PC, Raspberry Pi & IoT

Education

  • British Columbia Institute of Technology2004 – 2006 — Diploma, Computer Systems Technology — Client/Server Systems
  • University College of the Cariboo2001 – 2004