Spearheaded RFID edge-processing into AWS pipelines (CloudWatch, IoT Core, CDK), replacing static exports with real-time visibility. Designed low-level components in Kotlin, Python, and C for microcontrollers, enabling seamless cloud-native integration. Built state machine-driven pipelines for high-volume sensor streams.
FT, 2025

Building scalable web applications on AWS with the Enterprise Application Development team. Subject matter expert regarding OAuth 2.0 integrations and mobile app development, deployment, and security.
Contract, 2018 - FT, 2025

Pwn'd security vulnerabilities, including the misapplication of the OAuth 2.0 protocol, and supported coworkers by providing reusable code examples for remediating insecure practices. Optimized and refined the data cleanup strategy (IBMi, SQL CTE) and developed a versatile toolkit for staff to monitor on-prem data, customer success, user authentication, and cloud system health. Ensured a seamless transition by thoroughly documenting the codebase for a new hire to take over before my departure.
3 month, 2024

Converted all assets and ads to authenticated, programmable media, implementing seamless anonymous authentication to enable progressive profiling from conversions. Collaborated closely with the design team to bring their vision to life, building custom solutions entirely from scratch while benchmarking against external libraries. By combining these efforts with Edge region caching via CloudFront, we achieved an 86% reduction in load latency.
FT, 2018

Served as Sr. Software Engineer for both front-end (Target Creative) as well as back-end development (Store of the Future.) Was a team player in building lot of cool stuff; including live showroom product-tracking, virtual-reality shopping, and IP camera observability dashboards.
FT, 2013-2017

Patented an innovative NFC daisy-chain sensor (US 20240257031) and developed a cloud-native, edge-ready event broker for seamless MQTT messaging with NFC devices. Delivered comprehensive documentation and UML designs, enabling real-time consumer habit and decision-making analysis without relying on cameras.
PT, 2019

Developed Swoop Market, an e-commerce platform. The first pocket-sized POS leveraging passwordless authentication via magic links. Built an in-house cellular-network-enabled barcode and QR code scanner for food trucks to automate proof of purchase. Designed and implemented 30K+ lines of code, covering customer shopping experiences, expiring authentication, a vendor iOS app, and supporting Azure/AWS tenant APIs.
2016 - 2018

Ever wanted to create your own data-driven SVG charts from scratch to power your BI dashboards? This hands-on guide for real-time data visualization techniques is for you!
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Developed a AWS Lex chatbot that integrated with SSO. The chatbot could process voice commands and leveraged Lambda functions to validate JWTs via rolling JWKs and lookup a user's user-specific AD groups within Entra ID.
May 2022

Lead Developer on an incredibly well rounded product team that aimed to get better feedback from guests. Assisted in various tasks including authentication, back-end services, and interaction design to bring version 1.0 to life.
Fast Company

Remember when voice to text was so bad? Rafter was a push to speak prompt generator that made complete sentences. It also refined questions specific for coding by removing dead-code and allowing the user to star preferred response types. Tested and deployed to App Store and Play Store.
May 2020

Built an NPM module in an afternoon that supported sending push notifications on any system during a time when http2 broke APN on Node.
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Worked hand-and-hand with Local Projects, Adam Laskowitz, and Dave Tianwei Liu to build a CSM that drove data to our enormous touchscreens in real-time. Responsibilities included vendor authentication as well as a staff tool to manage price, metadata, and multi-level asset validation with a publishing preview.
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