Full-stack engineering and engineering leadership. 16 years owning entire platform stacks end-to-end — building them, breaking them, leading the teams that keep them running.
Embedded with the core platform team during a major integration, maintaining backend stability for an LMS serving 25,000+ students and faculty. Introduced OpenAPI spec for self-documenting API tests.
Seven years growing from lead engineer to engineering manager. Built and led a 10-person Customer Engineering department. Architected a finance backend processing ~$6M in monthly transactions. Led incident response across production systems.
Self-taught Ruby on Rails during the Web 2.0 era at an Orlando startup incubator. Contributed to multiple products from concept to acquisition. Staff augmentation for enterprise clients.
Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Bash, C/C++, Go
Rails, React, Angular, Ember.js, RSpec, Minitest, Sidekiq, SolidQueue, Docker
AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, IAM, SQS, S3, CloudWatch), CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Kamal, Ansible
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, DynamoDB, ETL pipelines, pgvector