Experience

Swyfft

Senior software developer

A company disrupting the insurance industry by using unique data and analytics to improve the customer experience.

Hired to lead major architectural shifts, designing and building a home insurance SaaS platform on the full Microsoft stack. I work across the whole development lifecycle and integrate the product with many third-party services, with Azure as the cloud infrastructure.

• Rebuilt the entire security infrastructure, replacing in-code storage with cryptographic storage for API keys and sensitive data while keeping every feature working.
• Replaced outdated, inflexible email generation with a Razor templating engine, giving the whole application a modular way to send consistent, professional emails.
• Built the data export system for large-scale claims processing, transforming 500K+ records and delivering them to Medicare, LexisNexis, and other platforms on strict deadlines.

• React
• ASP.NET MVC Core
• C#
• Entity Framework
• Microsoft Azure

Atmosfy

Founding engineer 07/2022 – 09/2026, technical lead 11/2018 – 07/2022

A short-form video platform for discovering dining, nightlife, and travel, with 500M+ discovered experiences and 100M+ points of interest across 20,000 cities in 150 countries.

I led development of the entire technical infrastructure for this short-form video platform: first as a consultant and technical lead, then as a founding engineer. I directed a team of six while staying an individual contributor, worked with investor advisors, owned the technical roadmap, and designed the systems architecture on AWS.

• Built the location-based video review platform from scratch, including the entire backend behind short-form reviews and location-based experiences.
• Rebuilt the company’s React website in Next.js so pages load faster and carry richer SEO data that stays up to date, then maintained and improved it as the product grew.
• Evolved the backend and AWS architecture from a greenfield build into the foundation of a global discovery platform as the product, its data, and its usage grew.
• Moved video processing from AWS to Cloudinary and negotiated the partnership, eliminating a significant recurring expense and the need for a dedicated video specialist.
• Supported the company through its $12M seed round, including technical discussions with prospective investors about the platform’s architecture.
• Stopped recurring revenue leakage by tracing a flaw in the text and email outreach system to its root cause and correcting it within a week.
• Took on the most complex problems as a core contributor and raised the team’s skills through knowledge sharing and mentoring.

• AWS
• PHP
• React
• Next.js
• Node.js
• React Native
• Elasticsearch
• JavaScript

Paylocity

Senior software engineer

Award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software.

Architected and built solutions across the full Microsoft stack and integrated major third-party libraries, taking features from concept to release.

• Helped design and build the benefits enrollment platform over four years, expanding the product’s human capital management capabilities.
• Drove the architecture of a digital handbook platform, integrating external content and taking it to market in 18 months, while mentoring a junior engineer to senior level.
• Created a cross-platform compatibility layer so web and mobile apps could share components, cutting development time and setting the standard for code reuse across the organization.

• React
• Angular
• ASP.NET
• C#
• Entity Framework

Wintellect

Senior consultant

Architected, designed, and built solutions across the full Microsoft stack for consulting clients, integrating NServiceBus and other major third-party libraries into high-performance, scalable systems.

• ASP.NET
• C#
• WCF
• NServiceBus

Travelport

Senior software developer lead

Led development of a multimillion-dollar WPF application, managing three teams of up to seven developers each. Designed and built major components, ran sprint and release planning, and drove performance work across several application streams.

• WPF
• C#
• .NET 4.0
• PRISM
• MVVM
• TDD

Information Control Corporation

Technical lead

Architected and built critical components for clients across government, education, and finance, and mentored junior developers.

• Ohio Department of Insurance: an ASP.NET/AJAX spelling checker and a PL/SQL database merge.
• Ball State University: ASP.NET web parts integrated with Microsoft Managed Services Engine.
• RC Olmstead: a financial institution’s front-end website on ASP.NET, C#, WCF, and SQL Server.

Earlier roles

Developer at National City Bank and programmer at CheckFree, working on banking and electronic payment software.