About
I'm a software engineer in Denver. I like owning a product end to end: the app people use, the infrastructure it runs on, and more and more, the AI systems inside it.
Today I run Laratta Labs, my AI-native software studio, alongside full-stack engineering for PSIA-AASI. Before that I spent two years at Lockheed Martin running Kubernetes in AWS GovCloud and air-gapped networks.
Away from the keyboard I'm usually out on a trail, working in my garden, or spending time with family and friends.
Experience
- 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
Full Stack Engineer
PSIA-AASI, 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
Software Engineer
Lockheed Martin, 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.
What I work with
- Languages
- C#, TypeScript, Swift, Python, SQL, Java, Bash
- Frameworks & UI
- Angular, .NET, Next.js / React, SwiftUI
- Cloud & DevOps
- Azure, AWS, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Pipelines, GitHub Actions
- Data & AI
- PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Claude / LLMs, AI agents, MCP
- Tools & platforms
- Helm, Grafana, Keycloak, Rancher
Education
2021
Metropolitan State University of Denver
B.S. in Computer Science, minor in Mathematics