I'm a full-stack software engineer with 5+ years on enterprise apps. My strongest work is in backend architecture and distributed systems, and I put the same care into crafting UIs that are efficient and intuitive. My ethos: keep it simple.
My deepest expertise is in Spring Boot across Java and Kotlin, plus React and TypeScript on the frontend. But I'm an engineer first, so picking up a new language or framework is rarely the hard part. I also work in Go, with a soft spot for AWS serverless.
I'm a software engineer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with 5+ years building enterprise applications.
My start was a lot less formal. As a teenager I taught myself to build websites, designing and selling t-shirts online during the recession. That's where I got hooked on building for the web, and I've been doing it in some form ever since.
I worked in hands-on IT before I moved into software, so I'm just as comfortable helping people work through their problems face to face as I am designing efficient, scalable database schemas or deploying applications to the cloud.
I'm full-stack, but happiest in the backend: architecture, distributed systems, and the cloud infrastructure that keeps everything running. Right now that means building new tools for lumber trading and turning a legacy international trading platform into a multi-tenant SaaS. The work covers tenant isolation, a real-time pricing engine, an AI-driven validation pipeline, hardened auth, and the AWS plumbing underneath.
Above all, I'm a fan of simple, pragmatic solutions that actually ship.
Core engineer on the SaaS 2.0 modernization, migrating a legacy international marketplace into a multi-tenant platform, contributing to architecture and design reviews, and building the tenant-isolation model on PostgreSQL row-level security.
Set the architecture and technical direction for a Spring Boot + React billing portal, mentored student developers, and stood up the on-prem Ubuntu hosting and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Backend work on an enterprise U.S. Patent & Trademark Office application. Cut response times 25–50% on the slowest endpoints through async processing and MySQL query and index tuning.
Profiled and optimized high-traffic REST endpoints on a wellness platform serving 75B+ API calls/year, cutting response times ~80% on targeted endpoints.
Built the backend for a pharmacy MVP scoped directly with independent pharmacies, integrating Epic's FHIR APIs via a custom OAuth2 / MyChart login for patient-record access.
A rigorous software engineering degree covering the full build lifecycle, from requirements and architecture to databases, quality assurance, and a capstone, grounded in calculus, linear algebra, and discrete math. The graphical interface coursework is where my focus on clean, usable UIs first took shape.
Open to backend, platform, and full-stack roles. Always up for a good conversation.