Work
A selection of projects and the roles behind them. Some engagements are confidential and described without client names.
Projects
Cloud-Native Image Processing Platform
Lead Platform & Backend Engineer
An asynchronous image processing platform for a large travel-industry client. Python workers on EKS, KEDA-autoscaled against SQS queue depth, handle dedup (MD5 + pHash), enhancement, and CLIP labeling. Every run is traceable to a timestamped S3 folder.
- Python
- AWS EKS
- KEDA
- SQS
- S3
- PostgreSQL
- CloudFormation
- CLIP
Centralized CI/CD Platform
Lead Platform Engineer
Replaced per-repo CI/CD copy-paste with a centralized reusable-workflow platform. Teams declare deployment needs in a schema-validated config; the platform handles quality checks, ECR builds, multi-account StackSet deploys, and releases.
- GitHub Actions
- AWS CloudFormation
- StackSets
- ECR
- OIDC
- TypeScript
AI Travel Booking Mobile App
Full-Stack Engineer
Cross-platform AI travel booking app (iOS, Android, web) with a conversational interface for flights, hotels, and cars. LiveKit powers real-time voice; AWS Amplify (Cognito, AppSync, DynamoDB) handles auth, data, and sync. Built in React Native + Expo.
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- AWS Amplify
- Zustand
- LiveKit
GitOps Kubernetes Platform
Platform / Infra Engineer
GitOps-managed Kubernetes platform for a multi-account AWS environment. Flux CD continuously reconciles dev and prod clusters from a single source-of-truth repo; AWS resources live alongside manifests via CloudFormation. OIDC-backed IAM.
- Kubernetes
- Flux CD
- AWS EKS
- CloudFormation
- OIDC
Flynn Service Company
Solo Full-Stack Engineer
Marketing website for Flynn Service Company — a veteran-owned Class-A general contractor on the Middle Peninsula of Virginia. Astro on Cloudflare Pages, token-driven design system, Playwright + axe-core + Lighthouse budgets enforced in CI.
- Astro
- Tailwind CSS
- Cloudflare Pages
- TypeScript
- Playwright
My Reps Count
Platform Engineer & Technical Consultant
A React Native fitness app with on-device AI pose detection (MediaPipe + TFLite) for rep counting and form analysis. Backed by a Cloudflare Workers + D1 + Gemini RAG platform. I consult on platform and infrastructure and contribute targeted feature work.
- React Native
- Cloudflare Workers
- Cloudflare D1
- Gemini
- GitHub Actions
Experience
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Founder & Principal Engineer
Shire Systems ·
Founding Shire Systems to deliver cloud-native platforms and full-stack applications with the care of a small practice and the velocity of an AI-native workflow.
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Senior Software Engineer
HotelPlanner ·
Designed and delivered a large-scale image processing platform on EKS; led a company-wide migration from AWS CodeCommit to GitHub with a reusable CI/CD platform; established AI-native engineering workflows across the org.
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Founding Software Engineer
Gladiate Technologies, Inc ·
Founding backend engineer on a serverless SaaS platform. Designed the majority of the back-end services, built a shared framework with structured error handling, led integrations (Adobe Sign, Nylas, QuickBooks), and cut cloud spend 70%.
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Software Engineer
Jet Systems, LLC ·
Built embedded systems software for defense unmanned computing platforms. Designed the application OS for a mesh-networked single-board computer (C/C++), introduced VectorCAST unit-test automation, and set team code-quality standards.
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Senior Technical Consultant
Birlasoft, Inc ·
Led and mentored developers across enterprise PLM engagements. Served as Scrum Master for a Windchill automation team and delivered deployment tooling for a Department of Defense client with over 60,000 active users.