About Me

2026 – Present · Denver, CO

• Run a solo, AI-native software practice — full-stack web and mobile apps, the cloud infrastructure and data pipelines behind them, and AI systems and agents, scoped and shipped to production end to end.
• Designed, built, and shipped SquadUp (a social fitness platform, live on the App Store) and YardPaint (a consumer AI app).

Aug 2025 – Present · Lakewood, CO

• Built an offline-first Progressive Web App (Angular) for on-the-mountain assessment of members pursuing skiing and snowboarding instructor certifications — fully usable without connectivity at altitude, syncing to the backend when back online.
• Designed and shipped a member event self-cancellation and refund service end to end (Angular + .NET), with tiered refunds based on days until the event, integrated with the in-house association management system (AMS).
• Raised the member-portal and admin frontends to >90% test coverage, then gated deployments on those suites in Azure Pipelines with automated test-result comments on pull requests.
• Stood up Claude Code–powered automated PR-review pipelines for the .NET backend and Angular frontends.
• Refactored and reworked the monolithic backend billing service for maintainability and correctness.
• Shipped a steady stream of security hardening, performance improvements, and bug fixes across the member and admin experiences — improving accounting accuracy and business automation.

Aug 2022 – Aug 2024 · Littleton, CO

• Deployed and managed an internal Kubernetes cluster utilizing Rancher on AWS GovCloud EC2 instances, creating a scalable environment for Docker containerized applications.
• Monitored cluster health using Grafana and Longhorn, responding to incidents with prompt troubleshooting and resolution.
• Took ownership of software and SQL database deployments, becoming the go-to resource for deployment issues and developing new Helm charts.
• Implemented user-configurable data filtering in a C# Unity app, enabling users to customize visual outputs.
• Enhanced GitLab CI/CD pipelines by automating Helm chart linting and deployment, improving consistency and efficiency.
• Deployed and managed Keycloak for role-based access control on a Python application.
• Modified and deployed Dockerfiles eliminating vulnerabilities detected by SAST scans, ensuring security compliance.
• Deployed Docker and Kubernetes (k3s) within air-gapped Red Hat Linux environments using VirtualBox and KVM.
• Authored Linux scripts and documentation for software installation, dependency management, and cluster configuration in restricted networks.
• Thrived in a small Agile team, starting as the sole junior engineer and mentoring multiple new hires.