Full Stack Engineer (specialized in Backend/Django) with 6 years of experience designing, deploying, and scaling web platforms across the defense and finance sectors. I specialize in designing elegant solutions to complex business problems, balancing developer experience with production-readiness, application architecture, and leading high-impact engineering initiatives.
- Design for inclusivity
- Engineer with intent
- Less is more
- Organizational self-sufficiency
- Bringing people together
- Product design
- Macroeconomics
- Matcha and beer
2025 - 2026
Architected and launched a social financial exchange platform, enabling paper trading US equities and cryptocurrency asset classes and sharing held positions, trades, and watchlists.
2023 - 2024
Designed and deployed Data Center Infrastructure Management web application for Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR), enabling drafters to manage over 4000 data center assets composed of racks, elevations, power and data connections, and server rooms across 80 AutoCAD projects — accelerating shore installation and integration workflows.
2020 - 2023
Led a 5-engineer team to architect and deploy an enterprise-grade ERP web application, streamlining operations across 6 departments and 40+ users — consolidating calibration (metrology), finance, QC, HR, and logistics workflows into a single platform at the Navy Primary Standards Laboratory.
- Languages: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, SQL, HTML, CSS, C#
- Database: PostgreSQL, TimeScaleDB, pgAdmin, Redis, SQL Server
- Backend: Django, Django Rest Framework, Django Channels, REST API, OpenAPI, WebSocket (producer/consumer), Celery (worker, beat, flower)
- Frontend: React, React Router, SWR, Vite, HTMX, jQuery, Tailwind, Mantine, Bootstrap
- DevOps: CI/CD, Docker, Containerization, GitHub Actions, act, Cloudflare (Workers, D1, R2), Azure, NGINX, secrets management
- Tools: Postman, uv, npm, Jira, GitHub Projects, Visual Studio Code, GPG, ssh
- AI/harnesses: Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, LM Studio