work

  • Engine :: Staff Front-end Engineer (August 2023 - Present)

    I joined Engine as one of the staff front-end leads on developing our client-facing Webapp and Native Mobile App on our massive business travel platform! I'm primarily focused on maintaining and delivering features in our checkout space, but also lead massive internal efforts like building an internal React-based form management system and coordinating our company-wide rebrand from "Hotel Engine" to "Engine" across all of our customer-facing applications and services

  • Carta Healthcare :: Senior UI/UX Engineer (March 2023 - August 2023)

    I helped modernize Carta's front-end UI by translating the codebase into Typescript, as well as building out a new in-house component library (based on Tailwind and Flowbite) and building out brand new features to help assist the abstraction team in their data processing efforts

  • Strategypoint :: Staff Software Engineer (August 2022 - March 2023)

    At Strategypoint I was part of a small team creating Business Strategy Software that worked to make strategy simple and accessible for anyone! I joined as an experienced contributer, and helped modernize both the front-end and back-end systems and develop several new flagship features for the product, working directly with their CTO.

  • GGLeagues :: Chief Technology Officer (April 2018 - June 2023)

    I started in April of 2018 in a part-time capacity and transition to full-time in February of 2021. My duties included managing the devops & development of our production applications, architecting and building our web applications, and growing and managing our development and tech team at the company. I also helped mentor our junior engineers and was deeply involved with the fundraising process until we sunset the company in June of 2023.

  • Nerdery :: Senior Front-End Engineer (January 2018 - January 2021)

    At Nerdery my duties included software development, technical team management on client projects, and general technology consulting around best practices and strategies for my clients.

  • Echo League :: Founder & Lead Developer (January 2017 - May 2018)

    I founded, organized, and built the software for the largest Dota 2 Amateur league of its time with over 3000 members. I assembled a team of developers, broadcasters, and community managers to grow the community from the ground up and build a full webapp and software suite to power our competitions. We closed our leagues in 2018 as I moved into my role at GGLeagues and mulitiple other founding members found success within the esports industry in broadcasting, event management, and more.

  • Accenture Song :: Senior Front-End Developer (June 2013 - January 2018)

    I began as an associate level developer (originally at Acquity Group which was acquired by Accenture), working as team members on various client projects, and was promoted up to Senior Front-End Developer where I took on larger team management and project architecture roles. In my last two years I served as a Senior Staff-Augment resource for Walmart Labs, helping build and release multiple features for Walmart.com

projects

Outside of work I truly do enjoy being able to build and create things with code! Below are a selection of my featured projects:

featured projects

  • PageTern : a website + PWA for creating personal reading lists and reviews, powered by Nuxt, Supabase, and OpenLibrary

open source libraries & contributions

side projects and experiments

  • Catfact.Page : a website that gives you a random catfact and image!
  • rerolled-bot : a discord management bot for my wow guild, written in golang
  • itsallno.de : it's all node? always has been.
  • Vaporwave.fish : a vaporwave streaming website with aesthetic fish vibes

You can find many more projects, tools, and various code repos over at my github page!

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