Who am I?

Strategic problem solver, platform architect, and engineering leader with a proven track record as a Systems Architect, VP of API Architecture, and Principal Full-Stack Engineer.

Background & Leadership

Over the last 15+ years, I have architected high-throughput financial backends, distributed microservices, and interactive geospatial rendering engines:

• Founder at WorldSieve: Built an AI dark factory startup operating on a shoestring, establishing locally hosted agentic development workflows with Gemini frontier models, FastAPI, React 19, Paper.js canvas math, and asynchronous Redis/ARQ task queues.
• Vice President of API Architecture at Synchrony: Led a department of 30+ engineers and QA professionals modernizing partner integration suites, transitioning legacy monolithic systems to composable Micro-Frontend (MFE) architectures and Spring Boot microservices with automated Postman/Newman testing pipelines.
• Senior Engineering Roles (Elation Health, Provata Health, Moody's Analytics): Engineered fault-tolerant data pipelines, Elasticsearch clustering, liquid state-tracking engines, and healthcare compliance platforms.

Core Competencies

• Languages & Frameworks: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, SQL, React 19, Next.js, Node.js / Express, FastAPI, Flask.
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS (ECS, S3, RDS, IAM), Docker, Docker Compose, Terraform, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian), Apache 2.4, systemd, Tailscale, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions.
• Architecture: Microservices, Event-Driven Systems, Reverse Proxies, Geospatial Projections (d3-geo, Voronoi, GeoJSON), REST APIs, JWT Auth.
• AI & Automation: Dark Factory Agentic Workflows, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Local LLM Tooling, Prompt Engineering, Test-Driven Verification.