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15+ years building web platforms — from Nebraska startups to San Francisco scale-ups to independent consulting. Every project taught something new.
20+ Companies 15+ Years 10 Full-time roles
2025 – 2026
AI-powered end-to-end testing platform for web and mobile applications. Momentic uses AI to automatically discover, generate, and maintain test suites — replacing brittle manual test scripts with intelligent, self-healing test automation. Frontend engineering for AI-powered test automation platform Building interfaces for AI-driven test generation and execution workflows Web and mobile testing infrastructure at the intersection of AI and developer tooling TypeScript React AI/ML Test Automation Playwright
Collaborative writing and document platform. Canvas builds tools for real-time collaborative authoring with a focus on elegant, distraction-free interfaces and powerful editing capabilities. Frontend engineering for real-time collaborative document editor Complex state management for multi-user concurrent editing Rich text editing interfaces with performance-critical rendering TypeScript React WebSockets CRDTs Rich Text
2022 – 2023
Top software development company in Kansas City.
PayIt builds world-class digital government services — DMV, property tax, vehicle registration — for millions of citizens across North America, including the State of North Carolina and the City of Toronto. Architected frontend systems powering 50+ white-label government applications serving millions of constituents Drove UI standards for performance, testing, and maintainability across multiple product teams Led Pendo analytics implementation — defined and instrumented key product metrics enabling data-driven design decisions Architected document management sub-system handling multiple file formats with authenticated third-party integrations Championed accessibility (WCAG) and internationalization across all client applications React TypeScript Redux Node.js Java Kubernetes MongoDB Pendo GitHub Actions
The North American Computational Linguistics Open competition (NACLO) runs an international student competition to get high schoolers a head start in computational linguistics. Built a greenfield competition management platform replacing a legacy Perl system that had served the organization for over a decade. Designed and built a full competition management platform from scratch — student registration, results tallying, site administration Replaced legacy Perl system with modern Python/Flask application Full project lifecycle: requirements gathering, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment Volunteer-driven organization affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University's computational linguistics program Python Flask PostgreSQL HTML/CSS JavaScript
Insurance services company in Kansas City running a decade-old .NET 4 application for processing client insurance claims, generating forms, and administering responses from state offices. A masterclass in maintaining legacy systems that Just Work. Reconstructed CI/CD pipeline for a 10+ year-old .NET application on Azure (Kudu) Upgraded third-party dependencies to latest secure patches Performed security audit and automated email integration Set up codebase for continued development by future maintainers C# / .NET 4 Azure Kudu CI/CD Security Audit
2020 – 2025
Privacy-focused technology organization building open-source alternatives to big tech platforms.
Mission-driven work defending user privacy and data sovereignty. Built frontend systems for privacy-focused open-source applications Contributed to the organization's mission of creating sustainable open-source software JavaScript React Open Source
Data and spreadsheet tooling startup. Built interactive web interfaces for data manipulation and visualization. Frontend development for interactive data application Complex UI state management for spreadsheet-like interactions JavaScript React TypeScript
Property management automation platform. Built web interfaces for property managers to streamline tenant communications and maintenance workflows. Developed interactive web application for property management workflows Frontend and full-stack feature development JavaScript React Node.js
2017 – 2019
Tlon builds Urbit — a clean-slate, decentralized personal computing platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As Engineering Manager of Interface, I set the technical direction for all frontend development on the platform and built the foundational systems that every Urbit app developer uses. Architected the first scalable UI framework for the Urbit platform — setting technical direction for all frontend development across the organization Built a greenfield JavaScript build pipeline (Rollup, Gulp), state management framework, and bespoke CQRS API integration layer powering the flagship product Created a component styleguide and codified build, release, and style standards adopted by all platform developers Managed and mentored a team of 4 engineers; partnered with CEO and CTO on product roadmap and quarterly OKRs Led cross-team initiatives to improve developer workflows, tooling, and platform reliability JavaScript React Rollup Gulp WebSockets CQRS Hoon (Urbit) Team Leadership
2015 – 2017
Twitch is the world's largest live-streaming platform (acquired by Amazon).
As a Senior Front-End Engineer, I led the redesign of Twitch's highest-trafficked page — the channel view — serving 15 million daily active users with real-time, latency-sensitive video streaming. Led redesign of Twitch's channel page (15M DAU), coordinating an 8-person cross-functional team through end-to-end delivery Owned the video player UI: ads, controls, and playback — deeply integrated with Twitch's real-time video ingest and ad streaming architecture Drove Ember.js → React migration across multiple departments, establishing adoption patterns for the new framework Mentored an intern who shipped a high-impact feature (mini video overlay) that significantly increased Twitch's core metric: Minutes Watched Performance optimization for a latency-sensitive, real-time streaming interface at massive scale React Ember.js JavaScript Webpack CSS Real-time Streaming WebSockets
Metromile was a pay-per-mile car insurance company (later acquired by Lemonade). I led the full redesign of the primary customer enrollment flow and managed six frontend applications powering the customer-facing web experience. Led full application redesign of the quote & enrollment flow — delivered on schedule (~2 months), revamping the primary customer acquisition funnel Developed and maintained 6 frontend applications; managed deploys, enforced code standards, drafted architectural improvements Established comprehensive testing program: unit, integration, E2E (Selenium, BrowserStack), and hallway usability testing JavaScript React CSS Selenium BrowserStack CI/CD
2013 – 2014
San Francisco startup building local marketing and customer engagement tools for small businesses. Early-stage startup environment — wore many hats across the full stack. Full-stack web development for local business marketing platform Early-stage startup: rapid iteration, direct customer feedback, shipping fast JavaScript Ruby on Rails HTML/CSS
Fitness technology company building personalized workout planning tools. Contract frontend development work in the San Francisco fitness-tech ecosystem.