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Lundstrum Performing Arts

• Architected a six-agent autonomous operations system with specialized AI agents for marketing, grant writing, donor communications, event coordination, data analytics, and content management.
• Ingested and structured 200+ organizational files (website pages, blog archive, annual report, rehearsal transcripts) into a queryable local corpus grounding AI-assisted grant writing and content strategy.
• Developed custom skills and agentic workflows to generate on-brand UIs and user-facing web applications.
• Delivered a Remotion-based programmatic video pipeline integrated with Higgsfield AI and Luma Labs generative APIs for a live donor fundraising campaign.

• Next.js 15
• React 19
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• shadcn/ui
• Recharts
• GSAP
• Remotion
• Higgsfield AI
• Luma Labs
• Claude Code
• v0.dev
• Vercel

Experience Maple Grove

• Sole engineer for a city-backed Restaurant Week platform — architected and shipped a production PWA in 8 weeks across QR check-ins (24-hour token expiry), geofencing validation, real-time leaderboards, raffle mechanics, role-based authentication, and restaurant admin dashboards.
• Drove week-one adoption of 3,557 unique visitors, 12,217 page views, 635 new users, and 399 completed punch cards; grew to 6,066 unique visitors (+445% above projections), 21,744 page views, 1,055 verified sign-ups, and 1.2M requests — 99.99% uptime, zero security incidents.
• Maintained sub-200ms QR validation latency under 100+ concurrent users with PostgreSQL materialized views, Redis caching, and Supabase-backed real-time workflows; platform adopted as reusable City of Maple Grove civic infrastructure.

• Next.js
• TypeScript
• Supabase
• PostgreSQL
• Clerk
• Redis
• Vercel
• Tailwind CSS
• PostHog

FLS USA

• Engineered AI enrichment pipelines processing 6,000+ B2B records for lead generation, validation, and qualification — structured extraction and intent scoring in Python with OpenAI.
• Built brand extraction and campaign-generation workflows using Firecrawl, Exa API, OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK, and v0.dev.
• Reduced campaign setup from 3 days to 15 minutes through workflow automation and structured generation, enabling non-technical operators to launch campaigns without manual research overhead.

• Python
• TypeScript
• Next.js
• OpenAI SDK
• Vercel AI SDK
• Firecrawl
• Exa API
• v0.dev
• React Email
• Resend

WinWinX + Agency Underground

• Built AI-assisted brand extraction and context-to-content workflows for marketplace and marketing teams, moving raw inputs into usable campaign-ready assets in under 15 minutes.
• Improved lead quality and targeting accuracy by approximately 20% through data cleanup, enrichment, and workflow automation.
• Productized AI workflows that translated unstructured business context into repeatable outbound and marketplace operations.

• Next.js
• Python
• OpenAI SDK
• Vercel AI SDK
• v0.dev
• React Email
• Resend

FLYPILOT

• Delivered full-stack consulting across enterprise and premium retail clients including AgileOne, Brookfield Properties, Matsuda Eyewear, and Gentle Monster.
• Led teams of 4–10 remote engineers across roadmap execution, architecture decisions, code quality, and client delivery.
• Consolidated 11 production sites into a unified Next.js monorepo, cutting delivery time by 50% and reducing costs by 75%; improved page performance by 60% for Matsuda Eyewear through rendering and optimization work.

• React
• Next.js
• TypeScript
• Shopify
• Storybook
• Figma

Knock Inc

• Architected and delivered a modern headless CMS and showcase platform under a short contract timeline, owning implementation and deployment end-to-end as sole engineer; decoupled content management from frontend delivery for editorial flexibility and long-term maintainability.

• Next.js
• TypeScript
• React
• WordPress Headless
• WPGraphQL

Freeman

• Joined as a backend engineer building a GraphQL API to power Amazon Alexa chatbot experiences, establishing schema design and data-access patterns for conversational workloads.
• Promoted to team lead for the company’s mission-critical internal application, overseeing the frontend team and driving delivery on a core business platform.
• Scaffolded several of the application’s initial core database models, laying the data foundation the platform was built on.
• Single-handedly designed and implemented the full authentication and authorization layer governing both internal and external API access.
• Selected as a subject-matter consultant on multiple design-automation proof-of-concepts, advising on approach and feasibility.

• TypeScript
• Node.js
• AWS EC2
• PostgreSQL
• AWS Lambda
• CloudWatch
• Amazon CDK
• GraphQL
• REST
• Okta
• React