Education
Full Stack Web Development
Bachelor of Arts, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Experience
Magistri Dev - Founder & Consultant
January 2024 - PRESENT
- Sourced, scoped, and delivered an enterprise CRM for a DMCA enforcement company—owning the full engagement from initial sales through technical implementation and handoff.
- Deployed Retail AI to streamline customer service workflows for medical practices, configuring LLM-based tooling against live environments and iterating with non-technical stakeholders.
- Build and deliver custom web and mobile applications end-to-end across industries, maintaining post-launch relationships for support, iteration, and account expansion.
- Operate at the intersection of technical delivery and client relationship management—handling scoping, project communication, and outcome accountability without a support layer.
- Built client solutions with TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Google Cloud, owning architecture, development, and GitHub Actions CI/CD end-to-end.
- Managed up to five concurrent client projects, balancing delivery timelines, relationships, and technical execution.
The Creative Bomb - Solutions Engineer
September 2024 - March 2026
- Built functional prototypes to support sales and conducted live product demos that translated early-stage features into customer-ready presentations.
- Resolved bugs and iterated on live custom solutions in production—owning issues end-to-end from triage through resolution.
- Built and maintained AI-assisted workflows with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor to automate repetitive work across engineering and customer-facing efforts.
- Owned end-to-end delivery of customer-facing web and mobile apps with React, React Native, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
- Architected payment infrastructure via Stripe and RevenueCat, including subscription lifecycle management and event-driven backend processing.
- Championed production observability with Sentry—alerting, error triage, and performance profiling to resolve issues before they impacted customers.
- Designed and maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Expo EAS for lower overhead and zero-downtime releases.
2U Inc. - Software Engineer
July 2020 - May 2024
- Collaborated with product managers, designers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical architectures.
- Built and integrated with external APIs, third-party systems, and imperfect data sources under real-world constraints.
- Led company-wide Datadog observability rollout—drove adoption across teams, authored documentation, and reduced MTTR by 30%.
- Delivered high-impact enterprise SaaS features end-to-end with React, TypeScript, Golang, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
- Performed research and authored ATAMs (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) to evaluate infrastructure, technology, and tooling decisions.
- Designed and built Golang microservices supporting high-traffic, customer-facing platforms with reliability and performance under load.
University of Washington - Lead Instructor
July 2018 - July 2020
- Owned end-to-end success of 300+ engineers navigating complex technical coursework—onboarding, adoption, and outcomes.
- Built working prototypes and delivered live technical presentations that turned abstract concepts into hands-on learning.
- Developed help content, documentation, and instructional materials that scaled individual support into self-serve cohort resources.
Verizon & TEKsystems - Account Executive & Technical Recruiter
January 2013 - June 2018
- Direct customer ownership, high-volume outreach, and relationship-driven retention prior to engineering-focused positions.
Live Events - Emcee
January 2013 - PRESENT
- Set the tone, energized rooms, and guided event flow from first moment to last—creating memorable audience experiences.
Skills
Note: I think these sections are silly, but everyone seems to have one. Here is a *mostly* honest overview of my skills.
