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Experience list

• Platform modernization

  Northwind Labs·Lead consultant

  Mar 2024 – Present

  Steering a phased migration to a modular cloud-native stack with zero-downtime releases.

  AzureKubernetesTypeScriptEvent-drivenSRE
• Realtime collaboration product

  Fjord Digital·Senior full-stack consultant

  Jan 2022 – Feb 2024

  Built websocket-backed editing surfaces and hardened sync for thousands of concurrent sessions.

  ReactWebSocketsNode.jsPostgreSQLRedis
• Data platform & analytics

  Birch Analytics·Data engineering consultant

  Sept 2020 – Dec 2021

  Delivered a governed warehouse layer and self-serve metrics for product and finance.

  dbtSnowflakeAirflowLookerGDPR
• Mobile SDK rollout

  Petal Pay·Contract developer

  Apr 2019 – Aug 2020

  Shipped secure payment SDKs for iOS and Android with shared cryptographic core.

  SwiftKotlinOpenSSLPCI DSSCI/CD
• E-commerce performance

  Lumen Retail·Performance consultant

  Jan 2018 – Mar 2019

  Reduced storefront TTFB and storefront JS cost ahead of peak trading season.

  Next.jsLighthouseCDNA/B testing
• Identity & access redesign

  Harbor Health·Solution architect (contract)

  Jun 2016 – Nov 2017

  Replaced legacy SSO with standards-based OIDC flows across patient and staff apps.

  OIDCOAuth2HL7Threat modelling
• API gateway program

  Copper Rail·Backend consultant

  Feb 2015 – May 2016

  Centralized APIs behind a gateway with rate limits, auth, and golden-path observability.

  RESTgRPCEnvoyPrometheusJaeger
• Greenfield SaaS MVP

  Slate Tools·Tech lead (fractional)

  Aug 2013 – Dec 2014

  Took founders from blank repo to paid pilot with billing, roles, and audit logging.

  C#PostgreSQLStripeMulti-tenant
• Embedded systems integration

  Aurora Devices·Software engineer (contract)

  May 2011 – Jun 2013

  Bridged firmware telemetry with cloud ingestion for a connected sensor product line.

  C++MQTTEmbedded LinuxYocto
• Internal tools suite

  Maple Logistics·Full-stack developer

  Mar 2009 – Apr 2011

  Replaced spreadsheet ops with web workflows for routing, inventory, and exceptions.

  ASP.NETSQL ServerjQueryLogistics