SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

City-backed Restaurant Week initiative; sole engineer delivering a gamified dining and discovery platform.

• Built a mobile-first PWA with QR check-ins, geofencing validation, leaderboards, raffles, and restaurant admin tools for Maple Grove Restaurant Week
• Achieved 3,557 unique visitors, 12,217 page views, 635 new users, and 399 completed punch cards in the first week while onboarding 40 restaurants
• Architected and delivered the platform in 8 weeks, including role-based auth, real-time sync via Supabase, and an analytics dashboard for city stakeholders, maintaining sub-200ms QR validation under 100+ concurrent users
• Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Clerk, Vercel, Tailwind CSS, Clerk, Posthog, Storybook, React

Wholesale distributor; hired to build AI-powered B2B lead-generation automation and modernize marketing operations.

• Engineered an AI enrichment pipeline processing 6,000+ B2B records, extracting emails, validating contacts, and scoring buyer intent using Python and OpenAI
• Built a brand-extraction system with Firecrawl, Exa API, and v0.dev to auto-generate on-brand email templates, cutting campaign setup from 3 days to 15 minutes per client
• Shipped marketing sites for parent company and FLS brand launch using Next.js and Vercel AI SDK, integrating React Email and Resend for automated outreach workflows with compliance-ready email infrastructure
• Stack: Python, Next.js, TypeScript, OpenAI SDK, Vercel AI SDK, Firecrawl, Exa API, v0.dev, React Email, Resend

Peer-to-peer marketplace and marketing automation modernization initiative.

• Built a one-click brand-extraction and content-generation system using custom prompt chains, eliminating 3+ days of manual work per client campaign
• Automated brand-to-content workflows with structured context engineering, enabling non-technical staff to produce deployment-ready materials in under 15 minutes
• Authored data cleanup and enrichment scripts that improved lead quality and accuracy by 20%, and delivered a modernization plan using v0.dev for rapid UI prototyping
• Stack: v0.dev, Next.js, Python, Generative AI, OpenAI SDK, Vercel AI SDK, React Email, Resend

Nonprofit performing arts center; engaged to deploy AI AV analysis and consolidate institutional knowledge.

• Implemented an AI AV-analysis pipeline using AssemblyAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic to generate structured rehearsal notes, action items, and performance feedback
• Built a centralized AI knowledge base from years of scattered technical documentation, reducing onboarding and cross-training time by 3-4 weeks for 30+ staff
• Created a generative asset pipeline that upscaled and recomposed promotional materials, elevating the brand and contributing to Star Tribune media coverage
• Stack: AssemblyAI, OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Python, Notion

Led the engineering team overseeing 3-6 remote developers during my tenure, serving enterprise clients like AgileOne (Staffing) and Brookfield Properties (Real Estate).

• Led a team of 3-6 engineers, owning architecture, code quality, roadmap execution, and client delivery for enterprise projects
• Consolidated 11 production sites into a unified Next.js repository and a reusable template suite, cutting delivery time 50% and development costs 75%
• Improved page performance by 60% for a key client (Matsuda Eyewear) via rendering optimizations, prefetching, and programmatic image optimization, increasing conversions
• Stack: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Figma, Shopify, Storybook, Git

Short-term contract leading the construction of a modern CMS and showcase web application on behalf of AALF.

• Engineered headless WordPress + Next.js architecture achieving 90th percentile site performance
• Decoupled content management from frontend delivery for improved scalability and developer experience
• Delivered production-ready system in 3 months as sole engineer, handling architecture decisions, implementation, and deployment of the complete headless CMS solution
• Stack: Next.js, WordPress, Headless CMS, TypeScript, React

Freeman is a leading events company powering the physical and digital infrastructure behind large conferences and trade shows.

• Joined a consultation team to design an internal platform that automated creation and distribution of component libraries and design tokens, integrating Figma libraries with custom SDKs to standardize UI implementation
• Grew from lead backend engineer to platform lead, overseeing 4 developers and 2 QA engineers while guiding architecture, roadmaps, and quality across two mission-critical applications
• Served as sole owner of the authentication and authorization layer securing internal and external APIs, implementing SSO and lifecycle management using Okta
• Stack: PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS Lambda, CloudWatch, Amazon CDK, REST/GraphQL APIs, Serverless Framework, Okta, React, Storybook, TanStack Query

Digital agency for national real estate clients; led modernization of engineering practices and platforms.

• Led a team of 4-6 engineers delivering web apps for national real estate brands and NYC developers
• Built a real-estate listings platform aggregating data from 10+ sources via a unified GraphQL API, improving data retrieval efficiency by 30%
• Established the agency's first CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and championed React adoption, cutting deployment time 75% and improving performance 40% across projects
• Stack: GraphQL, Next.js, Jenkins, CI/CD, Node.js, TypeScript, SOAP, Contentful