Software Engineer

Dec 2019 - Present

Founder & Software Engineer - Blue Wizard Labs

BWL is a solo entrepreneurship venture with 2 product releases
StarMech, a single-player 2D bullet-hell roguelike game released into early access in August 2022. Completed all the game design, coding, shaders, sprites, music, and sound design.
Cetacean, a writing SaaS for novelists. Cetacean is a MERN stack application deployed on AWS with features that include a rich text editor, document versioning, in-app social network, and tools for research organization and story outlining.

Unity C# Javascript React Redux NodeJS MongoDB AWS HTML CSS Godot Python FL Studio CI/CD

Jul 2022 - Nov 2022

Gameplay Programmer - Misfits Attic Games

Programmer working on a team to develop a prototype 2D strategy game built using the Unity game engine.
Responsible for implementing game systems and UI for a followup title to Duskers.

Unity C#

Dec 2020 - Jun 2021

Software Architecture Consultant - Clinwiki

Clinwiki is an open source project for searching clinical trials.
Provided designs and guidance for updating their tech stack to React/Redux/NodeJS.
Provided development for key components
Mentoring for junior developers.

Javascript Typescript React Redux NodeJS Elasticsearch Postgres SQL Hasura

Jul 2017 - May 2019

Lead Developer - Farmhouse

Dev team lead for Sweetspot; A free app that allows shippers to manage the bidding process for spot freight across all their approved carriers.
Designed and developed prototype React front-end, Java Spring Boot back-end, and handled DevOps for CI/CD process and Amazon Web Services hosted EC2 servers, MySQL, ELK stack. Developer on prototype React Native mobile app.
Designed and built React-Native mobile apps and React/NodeJS/MongoDB web app for The Underbelly, a yoga/lifestyle subscription service.

Javascript Java React React-Native NodeJS Redux Spring Hibernate Elasticsearch MongoDB MySQL SQL AWS HTML CSS CI/CD

Oct 2007 - Mar 2016

Software Architect - MercuryGate

Software architect and team leader for Carma carrier management system.
Developer on Transportation Management System (TMS), MercuryGate’s flagship product.

Javascript Java ExtJS Spring Hibernate Oracle SQL HTML CSS