/work
Current and past work.
Fintech
consumer fintech · web and mobile
Consumer systems on web and mobile: a dozen critical APIs serving 3M+ requests a day. Caching, prefetch, and circuit breakers keep them fast when traffic spikes, and a BFF layer feeds each client what it needs. I led the decomposition of a legacy monolith into microservices: phased, zero downtime, known vulnerabilities cleared along the way.
kotlinjavavert.xreactrediscachingoauth2bffgithub-actionsjenkins
Healthcare
telehealth platform · web and mobile
Telehealth and clinical trials. On the telehealth side: event-driven microservices behind care workflows and the assessment scheduling system I built. A lost event can mean a patient misses care, so delivery guarantees and audit trails get more attention than throughput. On the trials side: patient recruitment platforms used at research centers across the US and Canada.
kotlinjava.netreactawskinesiseventbridgesqspostgresqldatadog
Telecommunications
devices supply chain · data platform
Data platform work for the devices supply chain org. The systems tracked hardware from purchase order to delivery: real-time streams processing 200K+ events an hour through Kafka, ETL across three warehouse platforms, and a Golang tool that generated pipeline schemas automatically and cut development time by 70%.
javapythongolangscalakafkarabbitmqspring-bootdatabrickssnowflakeazureawsterraformreact
blacktagdevs · co-founder & cto
Rendezview uses AI to help you plan events, with a vendor marketplace underneath. I set technical direction for a four-person team and build most of the backend, including the tiered invite system behind the beta.
typescriptgcppostgresqlai-orchestration
blacktagdevs · bkrm.io
A private membership community for founders, decision-makers, and changemakers. Fewer events, smaller rooms, and introductions that actually go somewhere. One of the products I build as CTO at BlackTagDevs.
typescriptrailwaypostgresqlstripesubscriptions
blacktagdevs · link-in-bio product
Holm gives you one page to point people at, in the same vein as Linktree. Phoenix and GraphQL underneath, a set of React apps sharing a Turborepo on top. I worked both halves: the profile pages people publish and the admin tooling behind them.
elixir/phoenixreact/typescriptgraphqlpostgresqlgcpmonorepo
/content
Writing and video on building software at scale.
First post ships September 2026. New writing every other week, video when it's ready.
Topics: systems at scale, AI engineering, building products, plus film, aviation, and whatever else at random.
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