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Summary
Full stack software engineer, 4 years production TypeScript/React: customer-facing apps, Postgres-backed services, payment infrastructure, authenticated cross-company integrations. Co-founder and lead engineer of a live subscription platform where LLM agents, safety guardrails, versioned context management, and token cost tracking are part of the daily build loop.
Experience
Aardvark · Co-Founder and Lead Software Engineer
Jun 2025 – Present- Founded and built a creator affiliate platform end to end: Next.js/React/TypeScript web app, Postgres + Supabase backend with row-level security, Chrome Manifest V3 extension, all in production for paying subscribers.
- Bidirectional partner integration with a separate company: encrypted JWE handoff tokens, shared-secret authenticated webhooks both directions, idempotent signup callbacks, structured event logging.
- Owns production Stripe billing pipeline (checkout, subscription lifecycle webhooks, promo pricing). Traced and fixed a revenue-affecting cancellation bug from permission-scoped writes failing silently.
- Reusable internal AI tooling: agent skills encoding golden-path patterns with hard guardrails (no prod pushes, no schema migrations, no destructive DB calls), blast-radius review, independent diff verification.
- Daily LLM engineering: versioned context/memory docs, token and cost tracking, output evaluation before merge, MCP integrations to analytics/deploy/data systems.
Pekin Insurance · Full Stack Software Engineer
Mar 2023 – May 2025- Founding engineer on MyPI, ground-up rebuild of the claims platform: auto/home/medical/life policyholder portals in React/TypeScript against Java REST API + PostgreSQL; team of 5 engineers, 2 designers.
- Sensitive records for tens of thousands of policyholders; partnered with security team on PII handling for every feature.
- Built internal identity-resolution tool: LexisNexis verification, scored each registration/claim against ~5,000–10,000 records to flag duplicates across name/address changes.
- Defined platform infra requirements (AWS S3, legacy data migration with parity validation); maintained dev/test/prod environments; Jest tests covering every component.
- Founding columnist for Digital Digest internal newsletter: seasonal recipes + technical humor.
Freelance · Full Stack Developer
Oct 2022 – Mar 2023- Full stack apps for small-business clients: React over Express/Node/PostgreSQL; simplified data access so owners could self-maintain content.
Skills
- Languages: TypeScript 5.9, JavaScript (ES2024), Java, SQL, HTML5, CSS
- Frontend: React 19, Next.js 15 (App Router, RSC, Server Actions), React Native, Redux, Tailwind CSS 4, Framer Motion, Chrome Extensions (Manifest V3)
- Backend/Data: Node.js 20, Express, PostgreSQL, Supabase (Auth, RLS, Edge Functions, Storage), REST APIs, webhooks, Sequelize
- AI/LLM: Claude and OpenAI APIs, agentic workflows, MCP server integrations, prompt/context engineering, retrieval over structured data, agent guardrail design, output evaluation, token/cost tracking
- Platform: Stripe billing, JWE/JOSE token encryption, structured event logging, PostHog, AWS S3, Vercel, Jest, Git, Agile, TDD
Education
- Fullstack Academy · Software Engineering Immersive, Full Stack JavaScriptSept 2022
- University of Colorado Boulder · B.A. Political ScienceMay 2020
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