Full-stack engineer with seven years across high-throughput pricing systems, large-scale email infrastructure, and customer-facing SaaS. Strong AWS/serverless background, daily AI-assisted development practitioner, and on-call across the systems I ship. Specializes in high-throughput distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, with a track record shipping serverless data pipelines, enterprise-scale payment integrations, and high-availability email delivery at a 99.99% SLA.

Skills

Core: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Node.js, React, Django, GraphQL, REST APIs, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, AppSync, EC2, ECS), CloudFormation, CDK, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cursor, Claude Code, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Datadog, CloudWatch.

Familiar: HTML, CSS, projen, Zuora, Stripe, SendGrid, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Redux, Apache NiFi, Flask.

Experience

Software Engineer — Pie Insurance

Dec 2024 – Apr 2026

• Built an end-to-end data pipeline: relational schema, CSV ingestion template for non-technical users, automated hydrator with validation and alerting, and AppSync/GraphQL exposure for downstream consumers.
• Shipped a DynamoDB-backed persistence layer to memoize expensive multi-state pricing computations, eliminating redundant recalculation while preserving correctness on state transitions.
• Developed the front-end for a production payment experience (drawer UI, ACH and card flows, payment-method management) integrating Zuora and Stripe.
• Built self-service report workflows end-to-end — backend endpoints, SendGrid notifications, front-end status polling — plus an in-portal notification system with read state and banners.
• Daily user of Cursor and Claude Code with agent-based workflows and MCP integrations; authored custom Skills to codify team workflows and drove AI-tooling adoption across the team.

TypeScript · Node.js · React · AWS Lambda · DynamoDB · AppSync · GraphQL · CDK · Zuora · Stripe · SendGrid

Fullstack Software Engineer II — Quorum

Jan 2023 – Sep 2024

• Full-stack engineer on a public-affairs platform (React + Django + SQL) used by Walmart, Google, and the US Air Force.
• Subject-matter expert on third-party data ingestion: architected an internal editorial tool, a series of data parsers, and customer-facing features in Python, Node, and SQL.
• Spearheaded a quarter-long effort to improve reliability of customer alerting on legislative issues, partnering with two multinational teams on durable fixes.

React · Django · Python · Node.js · SQL

Software Engineer — SparkPost (a MessageBird company)

Dec 2019 – Dec 2022

• Built and maintained Node.js microservices on AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda) delivering 3.3B+ emails/day at peaks of 250M/hour on a 99.99% SLA.
• Supported the world’s largest brands through deliverability and sending issues.
• Led key projects including new monitoring infrastructure and API smoke-test coverage across the platform.
• Operated in a strict test-first culture — unit, functional, end-to-end, and smoke tests across every service.

Node.js · AWS EC2 · ECS · Lambda

Earlier

2017 – 2019

• AECOM — helped plan and document a software R&D effort to modernize DHS network infrastructure.
• Reallaer — built a prototype content-management system (view layer, search, dynamic video player, export) for a DHS/TSA training-video library.
• WaveStrike (internships) — prototyped full-stack projects in Java/Spring Boot, React/Redux, Python/Flask, and Node.js.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science — University of Maryland, College Park (2014–2018).