Patti Perlock

Key Project: Telus/Koodo Headless Commerce Migration

• Migrated Koodo's headless commerce platform from Drupal to React, integrating Node.js backend and Contentful CMS, improving frontend maintainability and team velocity.
• Redesigned authentication using Next.js middleware, creating a unified session management system that simplified local setup and ensured secure, consistent access.
• Consolidated multiple API calls into a single React Query source, eliminating race conditions, restoring analytics accuracy, and improving reliability across Commerce and Self-Serve platforms.
• Built lightweight feature flag tooling for local and staging environments, enabling safer testing of long-running features and reducing rollout bugs.
• Automated local "production-like" workflows with real secrets and endpoints, cutting debugging and onboarding time from ~1 hour to seconds.
• Selected for high-priority homepage rebrand: led refinements, identified reusable components, and mentored developers, delivering the project one week ahead of schedule.

Additional Production Projects

• Maintained and improved Telus's e-Verification System (eVS), enhancing customer account upgrade flows using multiple React frontends and Drupal / Contentful backend integration.
• Evaluated AI models for automated document verification, delivering actionable recommendations that supported production rollout and future optimizations.
• Delivered a production Shopify storefront with custom product architecture, ensuring inventory consistency and single source of truth.

• Demonstrated communication and collaboration skills by partnering with teams across multiple sites to ensure functionality requirements were met while simultaneously providing them with training and support.

• Spearheaded the development and execution of a SQL server database remotely on a 3 month deadline, allowing a major exploration drilling program to commence.
• Eliminated inefficiencies by developing and delivering streamlined reporting and automated tracking tools to senior level management.
• Designed and regulated a detailed QAQC monitoring program that reports the precision and accuracy of assay data, complying with NI43-101 quality standards as required by the securities commission.