I strive to enhance the lives of others through software
Backend Architect // Cloud DevOps // High-Fidelity Frontend
Dynamic Tech Stack
Building robust, high-performance systems with modern frontend frameworks, interactive client experiences, and scalable cloud architectures.
About
Developer with experience in full-stack application development with a passion for thoughtful UI design and usability.
Through my professional opportunities and side projects, I have developed a passion for Application Development and Software Engineering. From self-teaching myself React to developing a full-stack application using Ruby on Rails and Vue, I always want to stay ahead of the game by learning new frameworks and technologies in my free time.
I am always striving to be the best version of myself through hard work and self-motivation. I hope to impact those around me by developing a healthy work culture through my positive outlook and work demeanor. I want to learn from my teammates and help them grow while developing meaningful software along the way.
Expertise
High-Fidelity Frontend Engineering
Crafting fully responsive, accessible (a11y), and semantic user interfaces that feel alive. Combining modular frontend component state management with rich, Apple-grade spring animations and user interactions.
Robust Backend & API Performance
Architecting clean, highly performant, and secure API structures and backend microservices. Focused on refactoring legacy paths and optimizing third-party integrations to yield significant latency decreases (e.g. 60% load time savings).
AI Integration & Semantic Retrieval
Integrating large language models into production software systems using robust, structured orchestration patterns. Designing custom RAG pipelines, high-precision semantic search indexing, and secure agentic function calling interfaces.
Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps
Designing reproducible, highly available cloud environments via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and containerization. Building resilient, secure continuous deployment pipelines that make shipping code safe and predictable.
Experience
- Reconstructed the checkout experience and cross-selling of products
- Established and continued communication with partners and customers when implementing changes
- Co-led a discovery initiative in application questionnaires and processes
- Refactored third party API integrations resulting in decreased page load times of 60%
- Implemented A/B testing framework and conducted tests to determine customer impact and conversion rates
- Aided in the hiring process by conducting over ten technical and cultural fit interviews
- Developed new features and maintained multiple services and company gems
- Regularly facilitated architecture discussions to ensure any changes followed company standards and best practices
- Mentored over five software engineers to ensure their proper career growth
- Properly tested any code changes through Rspec and smoke tests
- Rewrote an internal admin tool using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js, increasing end-user productivity by reworking the UI and back-end functionality
- Aided in the development of production and UAT environments with CloudFormation within AWS, using services such as Parameter Store, ECS, CodePipeline, Lambdas, etc.
- Maintained microservices utilizing Ruby on Rails
- Utilized Rspec and Jest unit testing across multiple microservices
- Led weekly meetings and discussions relating to progress and future product development of applications
- Kept continuous communication with product users to ensure feedback became properly implemented during development
- Implemented internationalization within multiple Rails applications
- Refactored a recurring payment scheduler to utilize AWS ECS scheduled tasks
- Directed a team of engineers and business personnel during an innovation week
- Designed and built a modular project management solution leveraging service-oriented design patterns
- Engineered high-fidelity responsive client interfaces integrated with backend service layers
- Wrote extensive automated unit and integration tests to guarantee high system stability and validation coverage
- Configured robust continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines to automate application validation
- Utilized cloud hosting and storage environments to deploy and scale stable application environments
Let's Connect
Let's build something remarkable.
I'm not currently open to new full-time opportunities, but I'm always happy to connect, collaborate on interesting projects, or discuss system architectures. Drop a line!