Resume.
Lead full-stack software engineer with 13+ years across web applications, REST APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Builds in TypeScript, Node.js, and React, and pairs technical leadership with code review and testing.
Experience
Jul 2025 – Present
Lead Software Engineer
Virtual Experience Research Accelerator (VERA) · Orlando, FL
- Spearhead development of VERA, an early-stage VR research platform, growing its minimal infrastructure into Terraform-managed AWS services.
- Set code quality standards for a three-developer team, reviewing every web and Unity pull request and backing feedback with Jest and Playwright.
- Deliver a React participant portal where users join and complete studies and contact researchers, bringing enrollment and support into one place.
- Architect researcher workflows on Node.js, Express, and MongoDB, with REST APIs that let study teams configure experiments and capture results.
- Synchronize Unity VR clients and web dashboards over WebSockets, writing the C# scripts that hold scene state and participant progress in sync.
- Automate weekly releases with GitHub Actions workflows that package Docker images and publish them to S3 for EC2 to pull, hands-off every time.
Jun 2023 – Jul 2025
Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
Evident Change · Remote
- Directed technical decisions for the Community Resource Guide (CRG), a court intake application caseworkers use, from first build into production.
- Engineered the CRG server side with NestJS and PostgreSQL, designing the API and database schema from the ground up, then adding Nuxt features.
- Standardized authentication in shared middleware three other app teams adopted, validating sessions and Azure resource-group associations.
- Evaluated pull requests and wrote Jest and Playwright tests for CRG, giving hands-on direction to four or five developers among about 40 in all.
- Coordinated releases with a dedicated infrastructure team, running deployments, verifying changes, and aligning timing with the other app teams.
May 2019 – Apr 2023
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Appleton Creative · Orlando, FL
- Owned full-stack delivery of dozens of client WordPress sites and three or four custom PHP and Vue.js CRM applications for midsize businesses.
- Created a reusable WordPress parent theme centralizing security and editor features, with child themes carrying each site's branding and layout.
- Improved performance of PHP and MySQL sites on AWS, speeding up slow queries and absorbing traffic spikes while overseeing hosting and releases.
- Guided account managers on technical tradeoffs as they scoped client work, turning business priorities into plans that met fixed launch dates.
- Mentored developers as one of two technical leads, shaping the design decisions that kept quality and delivery predictable across parallel work.
Mar 2018 – Apr 2019
Full-Stack Developer
NeoReach · Orlando, FL
- Modernized the AngularJS application with consistent controller and service patterns, organizing behavior and data access around one structure.
- Extended Glacier, an in-house framework over Angular Bootstrap, with typeaheads powered by Elasticsearch and Redis caching for instant search.
- Introduced Webpack bundling and tree shaking to the toolchain, and shipped Node.js and Express features behind influencer discovery screens.
- Profiled reporting workflows and tuned MongoDB aggregations over high-volume datasets, keeping reports accurate as data volume kept growing.
Feb 2017 – Mar 2018
Software Engineer
Fi360 · Pittsburgh, PA
- Implemented C# and .NET API endpoints that sync, parse, and normalize third-party financial data for a Microsoft SQL Server advisor platform.
- Refactored AngularJS controllers and moved data-heavy aggregation into the C# services behind them, keeping multi-account portfolio views fast.
- Traced reporting discrepancies through .NET services, calculation logic, and SQL Server queries, then protected each fix with targeted unit tests.
- Consolidated versioned calculation logic into shared .NET services, making every financial report reproducible and auditable for compliance.
Feb 2015 – Jan 2017
Full-Stack Development Instructor
Coder Camps · Phoenix, AZ
- Taught an established full-stack JavaScript curriculum part-time and then full-time, covering MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js (MEAN).
- Advised students through capstone projects and code reviews, showing them how to isolate a bug and confirm the fix rather than code around it.
- Supplemented core lessons with debugging tools, programming patterns, and the developer workflows students would meet in a working codebase.
- Developed landing pages for the Coder Camps website alongside instruction, applying the same HTML, CSS, and JavaScript techniques from class.
Jun 2013 – Sep 2015
UI/UX Engineer
eCreations · Phoenix, AZ
- Built custom WordPress themes with PHP and MySQL, translating UI and UX designs into maintainable implementations for local business websites.
- Integrated e-commerce features and client systems into WordPress sites so business owners could manage their own content and catalogs unaided.
- Analyzed page loads with browser developer tools, compressing oversized images and deferring render-blocking scripts for a faster first paint.
- Resolved cross-browser and device issues after launch, adapting responsive HTML5 and CSS3 layouts to every screen size visitors actually had.
Skills
- Languages and Platforms
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Node.js
- Python
- PHP
- C#
- .NET
- SQL
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JSX
- Bash
- YAML
- HCL
- WordPress
- Unity
- Backend
- Express
- NestJS
- Fastify
- REST APIs
- WebSockets
- Serverless Functions
- LLM Integration
- Authentication Middleware
- Jest
- Unit Tests
- Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- Nuxt
- AngularJS
- Tailwind CSS
- Webpack
- Server-Side Rendering
- Responsive Design
- Component Architecture
- Playwright
- Data
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- Data Modeling
- Query Optimization
- Data Pipelines
- Time-Series Data
- Cloud and DevOps
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon S3
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure DevOps
- Terraform
- Docker
- CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Vercel
- Jira
- Engineering
- System Design
- Technical Leadership
- Agile
- Scrum
- Distributed Systems
- Microservices
- API Design
- Code Reviews
- Mentorship
Projects
- HoloMetrics
Full-stack trading and analytics platform for market insights and portfolio tracking
- HoloCore
API engine for real-time data aggregation, pricing intelligence, and system integrations
- Watchtower
Real-time inventory monitoring system for availability, pricing, and restock tracking
Education
May 2013
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Indiana University of Pennsylvania