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Neal Miran

Team Lead, DevOps at Oxford Properties Group

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Neal is a Toronto-based DevOps Team Lead with a deep passion for building resilient, scalable web platforms and the engineering processes that support them. At Oxford Properties Group — part of the OMERS family of companies — he leads teams delivering corporate marketing platforms, enterprise system integrations, and internal tooling. He bridges the gap between modern front-end development and backend infrastructure, with a strong focus on developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, and operational excellence.

Work Experience

Oxford Properties Group

Dec 2022 - Present

Team Lead, DevOps · Permanent Full-time

Key Achievements

Led the first-ever in-house delivery of Oxford's corporate website reskin, a full platform modernisation built on Next.js, Agility CMS, Elasticsearch, and Netlify, delivering on time with a small team of two developers and a UX/UI designer.
Architected and developed data pipelines for the Retail Marketing Team capturing user traffic and signups on Oxford's corporate website, integrating with Simon Data (a new customer data platform) for analytics and email marketing, using Boomi for pipelines and AWS S3 for storage.
Implemented a property search enhancement on the Lease With Us page reducing result latency from 6 seconds to under 1 second using Oxford's Lease-With-Us API and Elasticsearch for caching.
Developed Building Admin, a PowerApps application replacing a legacy Remedy platform app, resulting in over $200,000/year in licence cost savings, working with business end users and IT for discovery of functionality, data sources, and flow.
Implemented CI/CD for PowerApps Canvas Apps and Azure Data Factory pipelines using Azure DevOps build and release pipelines.
Managed and maintained public-facing websites using Agility CMS Site Generator, triggering build and deploy to Netlify CDN.
Oversaw AEO/GEO implementation with structured JSON-LD schema markup for leadership pages as part of the corporate site reskin.
Mentored developers through a formal internal Oxford Properties mentorship program, with a focus on front-end architecture, testing practices, and career development.

Oxford Properties Group

Feb 2021 - Dec 2022

Integration Developer · Permanent Full-time

Key Achievements

Designed and developed a new ingestion and validation process for financial and non-financial data for third-party property managers, standardising data collection and removing manual intervention to satisfy audit requirements.
Re-architected all VTS integrations following deprecation of the VTS XML API, migrating to their next-gen JSON APIs, switching from SSIS to Azure Data Factory, and redesigning database structures for new data points.
Worked with Suite Spot to update their API to allow Oxford to send additional data fields for residential move-in and move-out jobs, improving unit turnover visibility and operational cost tracking.
Led Azure Cloud Migration analysis for on-premises VTS integrations.
Key contributor in migrating legacy .NET web applications from SQL Server 2008/2012 to SQL Server 2019.
Responsible for testing all on-premises external web applications for Windows Server in-place upgrades from 2012 to 2019 due to end-of-life support.

York Region District School Board

Nov 2020 - Feb 2021

Programming Analyst · Permanent Full-time

Key Achievements

Assisted in developing and implementing ILARRS, a new attendance and replacement application for language teachers.
Integrated a new Supervisor form in ILARRS holding supervisor emergency contact details, enabling notifications when a language teacher reports an absence two hours or less before their scheduled class time.
Worked with the Data Quality Management team updating and enhancing SQL Server stored procedures for scheduled monthly data audits.

Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General

Sep 2020 - Nov 2020

Programmer Developer L3 · Contract Full-time

Key Achievements

Supported and maintained eRoster, a shift scheduling application used across 25 correctional institutions with over 4,000 users.
Added new business rule logic across multiple reports for Daily Roster, Overtime, and Other Duty charges.
Developed additional web portal features for better user redirection, added user prompts for selection confirmation and error messages on business rule violations, and added a site map for AODA compliance.

Oxford Properties Group

Mar 2020 - Aug 2020

Lead Integration Developer · Contract Full-time

Key Achievements

Led the VTS platform implementation, designing and developing an automated data cleansing process for JDE data extracts that loads sanitised data into VTS on a nightly basis.
Developed a Budget integration ingesting Azure DataMart views and performing an ETL process that populates CSV templates uploaded to SmartFile for consumption by VTS.
Built an SSIS reconciliation package comparing data Oxford sent to VTS against what was entered via VTS reports, generating a comparison log that saved many hours of manual work.
Updated a complex integration between Oxford's corporate website and its Space Inventory application, replacing it with VTS Portfolio data and mapping legacy indicators to allow data to flow through.
Developed PowerApps applications for mapping third-party buildings in VTS with Oxford JDE properties, and for running the Budget integration on an ad-hoc basis for business users.

Toys"R"Us Canada

Nov 2019 - Feb 2020

Data Developer · Contract Full-time

Key Achievements

Created multiple SSIS ETL packages ingesting data from sFTP servers, MySQL, and SQL Server databases for Business Intelligence purposes.
Developed back-end solutions using views, stored procedures, C#, and VB scripts to extract, transform, cleanse, and load data.
Used Azure Data Factory to create data pipelines, setting up linked services and integration runtimes for both on-premises and cloud environments.

Walmart Labs

Nov 2018 - Oct 2019

Data Developer & DevOps / Master Data Analyst · Contract Full-time

Key Achievements

Used OneOps to manage building and deploying QA and production environments for the Metadata Management web application for the Canadian Data Lake.
Developed disaster recovery processes and bash scripts to apply patches and perform backups across multiple environments.
Optimised the Ecom Catalog Kafka feed supporting daily Sales reports by updating the DW Loader from fast append to reload, reducing row count.
Developed Python scripts using Selenium to automate the item delisting process, translating into significant labour cost savings.
Initiated monthly Vendor fines process resulting in $400,000 in fines for the first wave.
Developed SQL queries across Oracle, DB2, Teradata, and SQL Server; rotational Scrum Master duties for the Data Ops team.

Education

York UniversityCertificate, Full Stack Developer Graduated 2019.

Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)Bachelor of Commerce, Information Technology Management — specialization in Telecommunications and Infrastructure Management. Graduated 2008.

Technical Skills

Full Stack Engineer & CMSBuilding modern, component-driven web applications with Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS. Experienced with Agility CMS for headless content delivery, Storybook for component documentation, and Playwright for end-to-end and visual regression testing.

Next.js

React

JavaScript

TypeScript

DevOps & InfrastructureManaging deployment pipelines on Netlify and Azure DevOps, with hands-on experience in CI/CD strategy, branch management, and secrets hygiene. Homelab enthusiast running a 3-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph storage, a QNAP NAS, and a self-hosted Docker services stack.

Netlify

Azure DevOps

Docker

Enterprise Integration & Data InsightsDesigning and maintaining financial data pipelines using SSIS and Boomi, integrating platforms such as Yardi, JDE, and internal legacy systems. Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL, shell scripting, and Power Platform tooling including PowerApps and Power BI.

SSIS

Boomi

SQL

Power Platform