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Career

Architecture and platforms for fast-moving teams

I lead architecture and build the shared systems, platforms, and developer workflows that help engineering teams move quickly without sacrificing reliability.

Shipped products serving over 16M users · Led teams of 8–12 engineers · Built product foundations across mobile, web, cloud, and hardware

Experience

Current Work

Member of Technical Staff

Feb 2026 – Present
Stealth StartupFull-timeBay Area, CA

Built the product foundation across the mobile app, web application, public landing page, and on-device hardware UI. Connected onboarding, identity, and device provisioning userflows.

Director of Technology

July 2024 – Present
tech night!Community leadership

Built technight.events with professional networking features. Mentored aspiring engineers. Coordinated meetups, hackathons, and conferences.

Co-Owner & Software Consultant

2019 – Present
The Web TeamIndependent consulting

Independent consulting practice focused on custom software, platform architecture, and practical AI implementation.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

July 2025 – Feb 2026
MercuryFull-time

Helped launch Standalone IO to beta by building the dashboard foundation for credit-only organizations and shared async selection primitives for card issuance workflows.

Software Engineer

April 2025
Zero EmailShort-term engagement

Built an AI-assisted email composer integrating OpenAI and Gemini, then shipped product improvements across the application.

Co-Founder & Founding Engineer

July 2024 – March 2025
The Network Concierge CompanyEarly-stage startup

Owned the technical foundation for Dunbar and HyperPage across Next.js, TypeScript, durable async workflows, AI pipelines, and a Tauri/Rust desktop app. Helped secure angel funding.

Co-Founder & Founding Engineer

July 2022 – July 2024
TrestleConcurrent venture

Established the Next.js and TypeScript foundation for a construction technology platform supporting a $2.1M pre-seed round. Led a team of 3 engineers.

Senior Software Engineer · Team Lead

July 2019 – July 2024
WeedmapsFull-time

Led teams of 8–12 engineers delivering features across a marketplace serving 500k+ businesses and 16M users. Helped move releases from months to weekly.

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2016 – July 2019
NCSoftFull-time

Served as the sole backend engineer supporting AAA game launches for 100k+ MAU. Rebuilt the core platform from PHP to Node.js and TypeScript, introduced GraphQL, and migrated services to Kubernetes.

Lead Full-Stack Developer

Oct 2010 – Nov 2016
Dellamoda.comFull-time

Led full-stack development for an Italian leather-goods ecommerce business, redesigned the production site to drive record traffic, and built internal tooling with Laravel.

Selected Projects

Actively Maintained

MyAion.xyz

2023 – Present

Rewrote legacy C# web app in Next.js/TypeScript, reaching 24k MAU at its peak. Implemented caching boosting performance 10x.

Zephyr

2019 – Present

Scheduling platform and player toolset for an Aion Online guild that grew to 300 members at its peak.

PvP All Day

Sept 24, 2012 – Nov 2016

Video showcase and discovery platform for Aion PvP content. Evolved from WordPress into a custom platform with Twitch integration. Reached 26k MAU at its peak.

Talks

Mastering Understanding in a High-Speed Industry

Oct 2023
Fullerton College

Observability in Production-grade Environments

Oct 2023
Fullerton College

CS Master's vs Self-Taught: What actually matters?

May 2022
Moorpark College

Awards

Next.js Conference 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.