Associate Partner — IT

Startups, small businesses, mid-sized companies, large corporations, self-employment; I've had a taste of it all. One thing has been consistent in all my positions: my thirst to learn and grow. Each position has offered many experiences to do just that.

• Replaced a brittle WP Easy Cart implementation for a defense equipment retailer with a custom Open Cart build, including a native extension for automated distributor FTP sync and drop-ship API fulfillment — eliminating all manual order processing.
• Optimized a production ecommerce search query from 30 seconds to under 2 via targeted database indexing.
• Built a full event registration platform with tiered pricing, early-bird discounts, per-event capacity limits, and abandoned cart recovery.
• Designed and deployed a Wire Guard VPN with web UI for a SaaS client, using it to IP-whitelist the staging environment and restrict access to sensitive production resources previously open to the public.
• Proposed a containerization migration for a SaaS client's flagship product projected to reduce baseline hosting costs from $300 to $20/month.

• PHP
• Mako
• MySQL
• Inertia
• Vue
• SASS

• AWS
• Linode
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Git Hub
• Apache
• Coolify
• Wire Guard
• Astro
• Open Cart
• SQLite

• Coding standards

• Built a Chrome extension redesigning the Canvas Speed Grader workflow from manual-step to auto-advance with override, shrinking a 5-minute grading task to under 30 seconds.
• Integrated local LLM inference via Ollama to automate rubric-to-submission matching, reducing manual review time per submission.
• Grade introductory coursework in cloud computing, software development (Python), and agile project management.

• Python

• Chrome
• CRXJS

• Local LLM inference
• AI integration

• Proposed, designed, and built the Author Portal, eliminating recurring spam submissions and consolidating author communication from three tools into one — reducing process management time by an estimated 50%.
• Discovered hardcoded production database admin credentials in phpMyAdmin configuration exposing public admin access; remediated overnight, investigated for unauthorized access, and authored the incident report.
• Took over and led development of the flagship SaaS platform from an inherited codebase, establishing quality standards while delivering features and systematically addressing technical debt.
• Participated in initial requirements gathering, database design, and user story planning for the flagship product.
• Collaborated on and reviewed code quality improvements against a codebase inherited from a prior vendor with inconsistent standards.

• PHP
• Laravel
• Mako
• MySQL
• Inertia
• Vue
• Tailwind CSS
• SASS

• AWS
• Linode
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Git Hub
• Apache
• Wire Guard

• Leadership
• Team management
• Instruction
• Coding standards
• Security incident response

• Led Stripe and Ava Tax integration across multiple engineering teams, shifting tax liability to customers and recovering 7% in operating expenses while eliminating 20 combined monthly hours of manual overhead from accounting and billing.
• Deployed Zabbix across a fleet of 150 servers (up from 16), standardizing role-aware monitoring and multiplying observable metrics 10-100x per endpoint, alongside Ansible for configuration management.
• Architected Graylog log aggregation from zero across 150 servers and multiple codebases — the observability foundation the Dev Ops team later used to build an in-house APM platform.
• Contributed to zero-downtime migration of the flagship ATS platform from end-of-life CentOS 6 infrastructure serving 10k clients and 150k users at sustained 1k+ requests/second.
• Designed and built the backend foundations for Text2
  
  Apply, a client-configurable SMS bridge for the flagship ATS; identified a structural conflict in the core data model and proposed a reorganization that…