Boise, Idaho · Engineering · Architecture · AI
I build production software, design systems that scale, and help engineering teams solve difficult problems. My work spans application architecture, cloud infrastructure, quality engineering, security, and AI.
About
My career has lived at the intersection of software, technology leadership, quality engineering, education, and real-world business problems.
I've built products from the ground up, designed APIs and distributed systems, worked across cloud infrastructure, taught hundreds of developers, and spent a lot of time figuring out why software breaks before customers do.
Today I'm especially interested in architecture, developer platforms, AI, cloud systems, security, and engineering organizations that care about building things well.
Selected work
A few of the projects and engineering problems that have shaped how I build software.
A modern studio-management platform designed and built around a production .NET API, Vue application, PostgreSQL, Stripe, AWS, and mobile delivery.
The system brings together customers, products, subscriptions, payments, media, events, streaming, and operational workflows in a single platform.
Founder and technical leader of CodeWorks, a software-development education company focused on teaching developers how to build real software.
Built curriculum, development environments, engineering processes, and practical systems around production-focused software development.
Hands-on experimentation with local language models, agentic workflows, RAG systems, developer automation, and AI systems designed around real engineering constraints.
Exploring what happens when AI becomes part of the development environment rather than another web app.
Developer libraries, experiments, web projects, application-security work, JavaScript tooling, and the inevitable collection of things built because I wanted to understand how they worked.
Engineering toolbox
I care less about collecting technologies and more about understanding the boundaries between them.
C# · .NET · TypeScript · JavaScript · Vue · REST APIs · distributed systems · PostgreSQL · Dapper
AWS · ECS/Fargate · ECR · S3 · CloudFront · ALB · Terraform · Docker · Cloudflare · CI/CD
Quality engineering · automated testing · code review · application security · observability · threat-aware architecture
LLMs · local inference · agents · RAG · AI automation · developer tooling · model experimentation
How I work
Understand the product, constraints, users, data, dependencies, and failure modes before optimizing a single function.
Good engineering creates feedback loops: tests, observability, review, automation, and deployment confidence.
I've spent years mentoring and teaching developers. Strong teams scale knowledge, not just headcount.
Architecture matters, but so does opening the editor and solving the hard problem yourself.
The journey
A career that moved from healthcare into software, education, engineering leadership, architecture, and product development.
Worked in healthcare and nursing leadership, eventually bringing that domain experience into software and healthcare technology.
Built software, led development efforts, taught developers, and founded CodeWorks around practical, production-focused engineering.
Expanded into cloud architecture, quality engineering, distributed systems, security, payments, mobile, infrastructure, and modern AI tooling.
Focused on solving difficult technical problems, improving engineering systems, mentoring teams, and building products end to end.
Open source
My GitHub is where the experiments, libraries, old projects, new ideas, and unfinished rabbit holes live.
Get in touch
I'm interested in engineering leadership, architecture, developer platforms, quality, security, AI, and products worth building.