Software Engineer

May 2024 - Jun 2026

Technical Lead - Hijack Poker

Led Unity and game server teams on a multiplayer online poker app.
Built monitoring and observability tooling that cut incident detection time from minutes to seconds.
Spearheaded technical debt reduction that enabled migrating Socket.io/NodeJS servers to AWS Lambda, supporting a 400% increase in player base and simultaneous tournaments of 1000+ players.
Built stress-test tooling to measure round-trip times of player actions to state updates, ensuring latency under the game service tick rate (950ms).
Defined agentic guardrails, verification gates, and review standards for consistent adoption of LLMs across the SDLC.

Unity C# Typescript React NodeJS Python AWS EC2 AWS Beanstalk AWS Lambda AWS ElastiCache MySQL LLM Tooling Pulumi

Jul 2022 - Nov 2022

Gameplay Programmer - Misfits Attic Games

Collaborated with the team building a sequel to Duskers, a 2D strategy game.
Prototyped game mechanics in the Unity game engine, working with designers on rapid iterations of new gameplay systems.
Ran weekly code reviews with the 4-person engineering team, enabling rapid prototyping while managing technical debt.

Unity C#

Dec 2020 - Jun 2021

Software Architecture Consultant - Clinwiki

Advised on architecture for updating the tech stack of Clinwiki, an open source search engine for medical trials, resulting in re-engineering ~75% of the existing code base over 6 months.
Wrote critical components and mentored a team of 4 junior developers.

Javascript Typescript React Redux NodeJS Elasticsearch Postgres SQL Hasura

Jun 2019 - Jul 2022

Founder & Software Engineer - Blue Wizard Labs

Solo entrepreneurship venture with 2 product releases.
Created StarMech, a single-player 2D bullet-hell roguelike game in Unity. Completed all game design, coding, shaders, art, animation, music, and sound design.
Optimized performance to handle AI and physics across 1000+ entities. Wrote frameworks for a messaging bus, execution state management, and dependency injection.
Created Cetacean, a writing SaaS for novelists, a MERN stack SPA deployed on AWS.

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

Jul 2017 - May 2019

Lead Developer - Farmhouse

Led a team of 3 engineers for Sweetspot, a logistics bidding startup for spot freight. Went from greenfield to production MVP in 3 months.
Designed and developed a React front-end, Java Spring Boot back-end, and MySQL app, and handled DevOps for the CI/CD process on AWS EC2 with the ELK stack.
Primary frontend and sole backend developer for a private client. Delivered React-Native mobile apps for Android/iOS, a React SPA, and an AWS-managed NodeJS/MongoDB backend.

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

Took ownership of the carrier management system and redesigned it to scale under a single server. Rewrote 90% of the application in 3 months for a 500%+ performance increase.
Led an engineering team, overseeing mentoring, code reviews, and task assignments.
As Senior Software Engineer, proposed and prototyped an overhauled GUI for the flagship TMS, migrating the legacy JSP app to a modern Javascript SPA.