I take unclear ideas from first prototype to working product, then stay responsible for what happens in production.
Working systems, not portfolio concepts
Working with the Velatis team on product engineering, AI automation, and the production systems behind a private research workspace for astrology, tarot, and symbolic practice. The platform combines interactive tools, identity and access, private notes, deterministic chart data, sharing, payments, administration, and context-aware AI while treating privacy and user ownership as architectural requirements.
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Built an AI-enabled SaaS support system designed to bring responsive local IT help and business-specific customization back to small businesses at a fraction of traditional managed-service pricing. The product unifies intake, CRM, scheduling, secure support, browser meetings, collaborative whiteboards, billing, analytics, infrastructure telemetry, and AI-assisted workflows so a small technical team can deliver personal service without enterprise overhead.
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Designed and built the entire KTHX.fun product end to end, with Ricoshot as its only game: the brand and landing experience, arena browser, game frontend, mass matches, bot play, tutorials, cabinet shopping, rankings, account flows, integrated radio, multiplayer services, and the deterministic engine beneath it. The C++20 simulation compiles to WASM and uses fixed ticks, replayable input logs, checkpoint validation, and server-authoritative mechanics so clients converge under lag and reconnects while match outcomes remain independently verifiable.
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Built an open-source, stateless astrology calculation and rendering platform with typed APIs, deterministic share URLs, accessible SVG output, and a privacy-first data contract. It supports natal, comparison, transit, tropical, and sidereal workflows without retaining personal birth data, making the engine useful as both a standalone product and an embeddable service.
Open the chart builderProduct engineer and founder with 15+ years building software and systems around hard-to-define product problems. Technomancy IT grew from freelance work into a small technical shop, where I was usually the only engineer or lead engineer owning discovery, architecture, product code, infrastructure, deployment, and support across crypto, security, web applications, and SaaS.
Build AI into real product workflows through retrieval, embeddings, structured outputs, classification, natural-language interfaces, tool orchestration, evaluation harnesses, and human review. I also code the AI-assisted development tools I use, so faster delivery still sits on explicit architecture, source control, tests, observability, and accountable engineering judgment.
Translate incomplete operational requirements into domain models, user flows, production interfaces, APIs, background jobs, and measurable outcomes. I work across React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST and GraphQL APIs, WebSockets, real-time collaboration, authentication, payments, and admin tooling.
Model the messy work between systems: scheduling, email triage, support queues, CRM state, ticketing, notifications, approvals, dashboards, and handoffs. I work directly with operators and non-technical stakeholders, identify the actual constraint, then replace fragile manual steps with auditable software and integrations.
Own the release path and the runtime: Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Nginx, networking, monitoring, security, backup, disaster recovery, and datacenter operations. I design for operability, instrument failure modes, and stay responsible after the deploy.
Career record
Founded Technomancy IT as a freelance engineering practice that grew into a small technical shop. Earned Upwork's Top Rated badge and ranked among its top 10% of freelancers before building a referral-based client base across emerging technology, security, web applications, and SaaS. Usually served as the only engineer or lead engineer, owning discovery, architecture, product development, infrastructure, security, deployment, and ongoing operations. Implemented OAuth/OIDC extensively in application and API authentication flows, including PKCE and token exchange. Built selected enterprise-facing identity capabilities into Technomancy.IT and client products, including SAML/SCIM integrations, AWS IAM and Microsoft Entra ID implementation work, workload identities, secrets, and tenant-aware access controls, with the depth centered on product implementation and integration. Helped teams ship products and fundraising systems used in raises totaling millions of dollars; built and managed deterministic transaction systems and independently verifiable systems that held millions in value. Delivered client work across React, Vue, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Also managed Excell Services' complete IT function, modernized its network and recovery systems for roughly 30 employees, and built Blade Construction's ticketing and CRM workflow. Now evolving the practice toward a collaborative model that brings in strong specialists when the work benefits from more than one engineer.
Led end-to-end technical readiness and infrastructure remediation for annual SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits under SSAE 18 at a 30,000-square-foot commercial data center in Fort Collins serving enterprise clients, maintaining compliance. Served as the primary technical point of contact for external auditors, translating infrastructure architecture, access controls, and failover protocols into audit artifacts. Owned disaster recovery and backup verification protocols, including automated testing schedules, and drafted and enforced engineering SOPs aligned with audit control objectives; the organization passed every year I led the process. Led the NOC team and served as the primary on-call engineer for escalations, designing and managing monitoring systems for datacenter and client operations. Served as the senior systems engineer and datacenter architect, modernizing workloads from hardware-centric virtualization to reproducible Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes platforms. Migrated legacy monitoring from Nagios to Zabbix through a multi-step cutover that included a severely unhealthy legacy database environment costing roughly $10,000 per month in AWS charges. Codified infrastructure and deployment workflows with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD; led capacity planning, recovery, client migrations, runtime operations, and incident response.
Built centralized internal applications backed by SQL and MongoDB that connected CRM records, network provisioning, employee onboarding, and service operations. Designed and supported IT architecture across multiple locations and client environments, turning cross-department handoffs into explicit workflows and operational systems.
Operated networks and managed IT for a portfolio of SMB clients, combining remote monitoring, incident response, endpoint and network troubleshooting, and repeatable automation. Built diagnostic and support tooling that shortened the path from alert to resolution while communicating directly with business owners and end users.
Served as the infrastructure focal for enterprise environments supporting millions of end users, including Best Buy, Amtrak, and USPS systems. Operated shared enterprise infrastructure consumed across application teams and customer environments; automated audit, backup, and compliance workflows; managed virtualization test labs and hosted desktop platforms; and coordinated tenancy, access, change, incident, and escalation work across application, infrastructure, vendor, and business stakeholders.
Products, protocols, art, and tools I helped ship
Built and operated MinePocket, one of the earliest live Minecraft: Pocket Edition online communities, before the mobile game offered native internet multiplayer. Productized a virtual-LAN path that used a home-computer proxy to relay the client's LAN-only traffic to hosted servers, proving that internet-connected mobile play was technically viable and that players wanted it. Archived forum snapshots show the account sequence gaining 19,630 registrations in ten days at peak and later crossing 250,000 cumulative registrations. Mojang CEO Carl Manneh later asked us to stop the unofficial connector because Mojang was adding WAN connectivity directly to the client; the MinePocket server software and community could continue without it. I owned product validation, community operations, reliability, and the client-to-network experience rather than the underlying server engine.
Partnered with the TokenGators team and creative leadership from DreamWorks Animation to turn an original character world into a functioning digital product. Contributed across application development, automation, infrastructure, launch operations, marketplace integrations, and the collector experience.
Worked with Bitlectro Labs across web applications, an interactive game experience, digital-collectible product architecture, generative-art delivery, deterministic transaction integrations, and launch systems for Dreamloops and The Dreamers. The releases connected verifiable digital ownership, visual systems, and music created with members of STRFKR into cohesive collector products.
Built an archival workflow and cross-platform Rust bridge that helps artists and collectors rescue Foundation assets, verify and pin content through IPFS, track repair work, and preserve access independently of a single marketplace. The project joins desktop tooling, content-addressed storage, recovery automation, and long-term digital-art stewardship.
Designed, built, and operated an Amazon reseller SaaS product that ingested marketplace and competitor data, evaluated repricing rules, and automated price decisions before the current wave of AI tooling. NuPrice combined a Node.js application stack with real-time monitoring, analytics, account and subscription workflows, a CMS, and support embedded directly in the product. The platform solved operational gaps competing tools did not and was acquired.
Created an AGPL open-source document signing platform with account-based signatures across multiple public networks; email and OTP fallback; 30+ PDF field types; sequential and parallel routing; hash-chained audit trails; client-side encrypted vaults; webhooks; and embedded signing. The architecture combines Next.js 15, React 19, tRPC, Drizzle, PostgreSQL, and an internal Rust verification and PDF engine.
Building Lemonstand.ai, a child-friendly AI product centered on kids entrepreneurship. It helps young people turn an idea into an approachable small-business experiment while keeping the child's creativity, decisions, and sense of ownership at the center.
Engineering an open, open distributed marketplace spanning multiple public networks with deterministic protocol validation, quorum-backed state, node governance, distributed transaction workflows, provider-aware routing, and a complete listing and transaction UX. The system keeps consensus-critical truth in verifiable code while using AI only for assistive analysis, never protocol authority.
Coding products, internal tools, infrastructure, and automation
Led engineering for games, marketplaces, creator platforms, transaction systems, and high-stakes launches from product definition through production operations.
Built NuPrice from Amazon marketplace data and repricing logic into an operations SaaS product that was acquired
Earned Upwork's Top Rated badge and ranked among its top 10% of freelancers
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