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Full Stack Software Engineer | Platform Architect

Product-focused full-stack software engineer and platform architect with 15+ years of experience building products, developer platforms, and AI-enabled systems from zero to production. I build and own systems end to end across user interfaces, backend services, infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI workflows.

Shipped products serving more than 16M users · Led technical direction for early-stage startups · Built product foundations across mobile, web, device, and cloud

Experience

Member of Technical Staff

Feb 2026 – Jul 2026
Stealth StartupFull-timeBay Area, CA

Owned full-stack delivery for product-facing software at an AI hardware startup, carrying features from mobile, web, and on-device interfaces into the platform by building the services they needed or integrating with existing ones in Bun, TypeScript, Effect, and Rust. Delivered onboarding, identity, device provisioning, and voice and face training end to end with Expo, React Native, React, and Vite while building agentic workflows that accelerated delivery without sacrificing type safety or UI quality.

Senior Software Engineer, Cards

Jul 2025 – Feb 2026
MercuryFull-time

Helped launch Standalone IO to beta by establishing the dashboard foundation for credit-only organizations and building an external account experience integrated with Plaid. Created reusable card-issuance primitives and resolved production-blocking PostgreSQL and KYC issues across frontend, backend, and data systems.

Software Engineer

May 2025
Zero EmailContract

Built an AI email composer that learned each user’s writing style from sent messages and generated contextually appropriate drafts across a Cloudflare, Bun, PostgreSQL, Next.js, and tRPC stack.

Co-Founder & CTO

Jul 2024 – Jul 2025
The Network Concierge CompanyEarly-stage startup

Co-founded and architected a network intelligence product that gave an initial cohort of 150 customers self-serve discovery and onboarding. Built large-scale ingestion, retrieval, vector embedding, and durable background-processing systems that turned fragmented relationship data into useful AI-powered workflows.

Co-Founder & Founding Engineer

Jul 2022 – Jul 2024
TrestleConcurrent venture

Co-founded and built a construction collaboration platform from zero to launch, establishing the Next.js and TypeScript architecture that supported a $2.1 million pre-seed raise. Led product and technical direction while developing concurrent AI pipelines for similarity analysis across public-record datasets.

Lead Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2019 – Jul 2024
WeedmapsFull-time

Led architecture and full-stack delivery for business-critical retail workflows serving more than 500,000 businesses and 16 million users. Built shared CI/CD infrastructure and Go developer tooling that improved engineering efficiency by 60%. Also led ML-assisted compliance work that cut training iteration time by 50% while helping move production infrastructure from AWS ECS to Kubernetes.

Co-Owner & Software Consultant

2019 – Present
The Web TeamIndependent consulting

Help companies turn ambitious product ideas into dependable software through hands-on architecture, full-stack implementation, developer-platform work, and practical AI integration.

Lead Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Nov 2016 – Oct 2019
NCSoftFull-time

Served as the sole backend engineer for a web platform supporting AAA game launches and more than 100,000 monthly active users. Rebuilt the core platform from PHP to Node.js and TypeScript, introduced GraphQL, expanded the backend contributor pool fivefold, and led production services onto Kubernetes and Jenkins.

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2010 – Nov 2016
DellamodaFull-time

Built Python automation that transformed manual operations and increased throughput by 5,000%. Architected an end-to-end Laravel application for customers and internal teams that improved system efficiency by 600%.

Selected Projects

Actively Maintained

tech night!

Oct 2024 – Present
technight.eventsVolunteer leadership

As volunteer Director of Technology, built technight.events as a professional networking and event-discovery platform, then helped grow the community through meetups, hackathons, conferences, and more than 30 hours of produced video. Mentored dozens of aspiring engineers in project execution and career planning.

MyAion.xyz

Nov 2023 – Present
myaion.xyzVolunteer project

Rebuilt a legacy C# application in Next.js and TypeScript for more than 12,000 monthly active users. Designed caching that made key paths 10x faster while cutting database load 20x, then led a small team in evolving the product.

Zephyr

Sep 2012 – Aug 2019
zephyr.teamVolunteer project

Designed and built an end-to-end scheduling platform and player toolset for Aion Online. Scaled it to more than 26,000 monthly active users at its peak.

PvP All Day

Sep 2012 – Apr 2016
Volunteer project

Architected and scaled a customer-facing gaming platform to more than 30,000 monthly active users, evolving it from PHP and jQuery into Laravel. Later rebuilt the archived product in Next.js and TypeScript to preserve the community and modernize the experience.

Talks

Observability in Production-grade Environments

Oct 2023
Fullerton College

Mastering Understanding in a High-Speed Industry

Oct 2023
Fullerton College

CS Master’s vs Self-Taught: What actually matters in the real world?

May 2022
Moorpark College

Awards

Next.js Conference 2024 Community Challenge Winner

Oct 2024
Vercel

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Building a product, strengthening a platform, or helping an engineering team move faster? I'm always interested in ambitious systems problems.