Capabilities

What I do and what I lead with.

AI/automation engineer with a decade-plus of fullstack background, founding-engineer and tech-lead credentials, and a current focus on replacing manual interface work with code that reliably does the right thing every time.

Technical surface

A snapshot of what I've shipped with.

Languages

  • PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript
  • SQL, SASS, HTML/CSS
  • Elixir

Frameworks & runtimes

  • React, Node.js, Tailwind
  • Laravel, Drupal
  • GraphQL (Apollo)

AI & automation tooling

  • Claude API (Anthropic SDK and direct REST via Portkey gateway)
  • Model Context Protocol (server and client)
  • OpenAI-compatible tool-call format
  • Agentic CLI patterns (commander.js + agent loops)
  • Playwright MCP for browser automation
  • Prompt and DTO design, tool-boundary design

Low-code & iPaaS

  • Workato — recipe authoring, multi-step branching, error-handling wrappers, cross-system orchestration

Cloud & infrastructure

  • AWS (Lambda, S3, IAM, deployment patterns)
  • GCP
  • Heroku, Istio (service mesh and routing)
  • Heroku-to-AWS migration experience

Databases & storage

  • MongoDB
  • Postgres
  • SQL

Integrations shipped

  • Stripe
  • Apple App Store Connect API
  • Google Play Developer API
  • Airtable API and Metadata API
  • Contentful, Prismic
  • Heap, Algolia
  • LLM Gateway

Frontend & design systems

  • React design system and component libraries.
  • Responsive web, CSS/SASS
  • Marketing-email design and production

Domains

Where I've shipped, by vertical.

Internal-team automation at Epic Games (current)

MCP server work, automation CLI for Fortnite mobile in-app purchases, AI-augmented QC validation for creative-asset deliveries, and ongoing engineering of the underlying Airtable-based project-management system at production scale.

End-of-life consumer products

Lantern. Founding engineer on a consumer app guiding people through the practical and logistical work after a death. Acquired in 2023.

EdTech & marketplace search

Teachers Pay Teachers. Search platform engineering, GraphQL API for search and product pages.

B2B & enterprise platform work

Multi-brand restaurant platform (GoTo Foods, 7 national brands). Healthcare practice-management (Yomi). Hospitality (IHG). Consumer lending (Climb Credit).

Youth civic-action tech

DoSomething.org. User-generated content pipelines, core user identity service, intern leadership.

LGBTQ+ media advocacy

GLAAD. Drupal CMS, full site redesign, marketing email, video and social production.

Nonprofit & grassroots tech (current)

HosTechnology. Automation services for under-resourced mission-driven orgs.

Leadership track record

Founding engineer

Built and architected an entire consumer product (Lantern, 2019). Grew the engineering team to four globally. Carried it through to the 2023 acquisition.

Tech Lead, multiple roles

Formal title at Lantern. Senior engineer who set practices at DoSomething.org. Lead Engineer at Climb Credit. Contract Technical Lead at IHG.

Direct people management

Three engineers at Lantern, fully remote, across multiple regions. Hiring, 1:1s, performance, the works. Plus multiple intern cohorts at DoSomething.org.

Technical Product Management

Yomi (16 months, healthcare practice-management). GoTo Foods (5 months, multi-brand restaurant platform). JIRA backlog ownership, Figma-to-tickets, Agile Methodologies (SCRUM and Kanban), cross-functional delivery.

Cross-team practice-setting

Helped institute standard practices around cross-team collaboration and project documentation at DoSomething.org.

Stakeholder collaboration

Currently translates workflow needs into tooling directly with non-engineering stakeholders at Epic Games — producers, creative-technology, publishing-operations leadership.