My Work

SwiftSignl / JoBound
Founder & CTO
Dec 2025 - Present
  • Founded SwiftSignl and architected JoBound, an AI-assisted job aggregation platform for remote software engineers.
  • Built 20+ ATS integrations to surface newly posted roles quickly, helping engineers apply before listings became saturated and improving their odds of early recruiter review.
  • Developed a proprietary, low-cost data pipeline to identify ATS customer lists and generate targeted lead intelligence.
  • Shipped an end-to-end platform spanning two websites, two applications, an API, and a local AI server on near-zero infrastructure spend.
  • Acquired 50+ users on launch day and sustained organic growth without paid acquisition.
Freelance
Staff Software Engineer
Apr 2023 - Nov 2025
  • Served as a staff-level technical lead across Onbrand, Sibble & Associates, Trayd, Upwell, Sayari, and Qloo, owning architecture, execution, and product direction.
  • Led launches and critical product initiatives, including last-mile delivery that helped Trayd complete Y Combinator and launch successfully.
  • Re-architected frontends and built secure collaboration and workflow systems, including invoicing, scheduling, and other business-critical capabilities.
  • Designed an AI reinforcement system at Sayari to improve data quality in a complex data pipeline.
  • Implemented AI-generated dashboard summaries at Qloo and introduced engineering metrics and internal tooling, helping double team throughput.
  • Led a monorepo migration across 5-6 sub-repos for a roughly 10-engineer team, adding TypeScript, CI, feature flags, and build alerting to improve release safety.
Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer / Lead
May 2021 - Apr 2023
  • Led security, web platform, and release-engineering initiatives across Azure-facing teams spanning dozens of teams and roughly 2,000 engineers.
  • Improved engineering operating cadence and cross-team coordination across the Azure organization.
  • Reduced Azure pull request turnaround time from about one week to two days by improving engineering workflows and review practices.
  • Drove safer releases by enabling automated rollout and rollback based on engineer-defined live metrics and error signals.
  • Reorganized teams around full-stack ownership to increase delivery velocity and reduce handoff friction.
  • Influenced developer hardware standards across the organization.
Rocket Insights
Principal Software Engineer
Nov 2017 - May 2021
  • Led architecture and delivery for 15+ product launches across multiple industries.
  • Hired and mentored engineers as the organization scaled, increasing technical quality and delivery capacity.
  • Helped establish the company's West Coast presence and expand its client footprint.
  • Built a reusable framework adopted across multiple client engagements to accelerate delivery and strengthen engineering practices.
Buildium
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Dec 2013 - Nov 2017
  • Led engineering for the accounting platform and managed multiple teams in a business-critical domain.
  • Improved planning discipline and delivery predictability across teams.
  • Modernized front-end engineering practices across the organization.
  • Helped lead the AWS migration and establish DevOps practices across engineering teams.
  • Drove security improvements and earned more bug bounty awards than anyone else in the organization.
RLS2000.com
CTO
Nov 2010 - Dec 2013
  • Led multiple greenfield initiatives with end-to-end ownership across engineering and IT.
  • Migrated infrastructure to a scalable, highly available architecture with redundancy across critical services.
  • Modernized IT operations and software development practices to improve reliability and delivery.
TSD
Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
  • Led development of TSD Loaner, architected WebDRIVE, and delivered the company's first mobile applications.
  • Introduced responsive web design and modernized the Loaner user experience.
  • Identified and resolved major security issues across critical applications.
  • Raised engineering standards and strengthened engineering culture.
  • Oversaw development of the public website.
EMC
Software Engineer
Jan 2007 - Nov 2010
  • Owned development, administration, and support for internal and third-party web applications and engineering tools.
Computers Down Under
Bench Manager
Oct 2003 - Dec 2007
  • Managed day-to-day store operations, technician oversight, and customer-facing workflows.
  • Improved processes to increase profitability, productivity, and service quality.