Curriculum Vitae

Professional history.

Edmund Lam

Staff Software Developer

Summary

Practical knowledge in computer science and software development. 8+ years of experience working on API web services and data-oriented systems.

Core competencies include Python, Git, SQL, cloud architecture, Kubernetes, data structures and algorithms, debugging, and test-driven development.

Currently focused on AI enablement—building AI-powered product features, exploring agentic coding workflows, context engineering for LLM applications, and improving developer tooling.

Publications

  • corRna: a web server for predicting multiple-point deleterious mutations in structural RNAs.
  • Choosing sides - the psychophysics of decision making in a two-direction motion stimulus [Abstract].

Languages

  • English: native or bilingual proficiency.
  • French: professional working proficiency.

Professional Experience

Back-End Developer IV (Staff)

July 2023 - Present
Poka Inc.
Staff-level backend development role in Montreal, Quebec. Currently on the AI enablement team, building AI-powered features into Poka's product and exploring agentic coding, context engineering, and developer tooling.

Back-End Developer III (Senior)

September 2021 - June 2023
Poka Inc.
Senior backend development role in Montreal, Quebec.

Senior Back-End Developer

April 2020 - July 2021
Gameloft
Helped migrate services from metal to cloud environments using AWS and Kubernetes, refactored internal gameserver provisioning to be cloud agnostic, participated in operational incident response, coordinated feature planning across infrastructure, tools, and game teams, mentored teammates, and maintained unit testing and documentation standards.

Python Back-End Developer

August 2017 - April 2020
Gameloft
Developed and maintained backend services processing billions of requests per day from Gameloft mobile games on the World Online Platform team.

Data Scientist

February 2017 - August 2017
Gameloft
Built data pipelines and applied machine learning techniques to help marketing teams optimize user acquisition campaigns.

Software Developer

January 2016 - February 2017
Gameloft
Designed and developed Python front-end and back-end architecture for the Data Science team's web services using Python, Flask, Pandas, jQuery, datatables.js, c3.js, Vue.js, and Git.

Software Developer

July 2014 - January 2016
Ayuda Media Systems
Delivered features and bug fixes for a software platform used to manage static and digital billboards. Main developer on a website and API delivering billboard advertising audience ratings based on US census and pedestrian/vehicle traffic data using C#, ASP.NET MVC, Azure, SQL, SSIS, SSRS, and JavaScript.

Education

Masters in Neuroscience

2011 - 2014
Universite de Montreal
Graduate studies in neuroscience.

Bachelor of Science, Major in Neuroscience, Minor in Computer Science

2008 - 2011
McGill University
Undergraduate studies in neuroscience and computer science.

Exchange Semester, Computer Science

2010
City University of Hong Kong
Exchange semester in computer science.

DEC, Health Science

2006 - 2008
Marianopolis College
Health Science program.