Software Engineer and Comms Expert
I'm a software engineer and seasoned communications professional interested in web, mobile, desktop, and video game development.
I started my career in media, and have nearly a decade of experience in public relations, copywriting, blogging, and television. I also hold a B.A. in Professional Writing and Public Discourse from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Over the last five years, I've professionally pivoted to software development. I started my coding career as a Founding Engineer at a startup. Through that job, rigorous educational experiences, and self-learning, I've cultivated skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, C++, Next.js, Ruby on Rails, and more. You can see the full scope of tools in the tech stack section below.
In my last role as Lead Sales Engineer at Linq, I shipped code and bugfixes in Ruby on Rails and Go, while also building and maintaining our documentation. These were additional tasks I accomplished on top of my core duties of supporting enterprise-level builds on our API.
I'm a voracious learner, and a highly motivated self-starter. In 2024, I completed a highly competitive job training program from the University of Illinois's Discovery Partners Institute. This program helped me improve my coding skills, while also allowing me to meet with executives and senior developers to learn more about the business side of coding.
I'm hoping that my next coding opportunity will be a fruitful chance to continue growing as a developer. I'm available for contract work and full-time employment.
In my free time, I'm usually hanging out with my wife, our baby girl Gloria, our cat Katsu and our dog Lucky. I'm also a huge football fan! My teams are the Las Vegas Raiders, University of Alabama Crimson Tide, Sioux Falls Storm, and Ottawa Redblacks.
Selected Experience
Sales Engineer
Linq
September 2025 - February 2026
- Led delivery of 40+ features and bug fixes across Ruby on Rails, Go, and React Native codebases in a fast-paced production environment.
- Built Grafana dashboards and automated Bash-generated Terraform configurations to monitor enterprise deployments, identify bottlenecks, standardize infrastructure setup, and reduce manual engineering effort across implementation and support workflows.
- Served as a trusted technical advisor to 100+ enterprise clients, guiding API integration strategy, translating constraints around authentication, data handling, and dependencies into practical recommendations, and unblocking application builds and integrations.
- Authored enterprise API documentation for large-scale iMessage delivery, shaping customer success and internal technical enablement.
- Partnered with sales and technical stakeholders on solution design, demos, and implementation strategy supporting $1M+ in new revenue.
Software Engineer
Discovery Partners Institute
May 2024 - August 2024
- Owned end-to-end development of a full-stack Ruby on Rails application across the full SDLC, from PostgreSQL data modeling and REST API development to testing and final delivery.
- Drove iteration and application quality by translating feedback from 20+ independent testers into product improvements.
- Delivered full-stack application features across SQL, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in support of a production Ruby on Rails application.
Senior Communications and Marketing Associate
Spanish Coalition for Housing (SCH)
July 2023 - May 2024
- Led a four-person team in publicizing the organization’s community efforts.
- Started a blog that informed the public of our actions and increased site traffic by 10%.
- Managed social media and email blasts to over 10,000 subscribers.
Founding Engineer
BUZD!
2021 - 2022
- Built and launched a React Native driver delivery application that generated more than $50,000 in revenue, translating business needs into a working customer-facing product that streamlined driver workflows and order fulfillment.
- Built a Next.js and Firebase administrative platform for managing inventory, orders, and customers, improving staff efficiency by 75%.
- Implemented real-time driver tracking using the Google Maps API, enabling live delivery visibility for dispatchers and customers.
- Served as the technical bridge between engineering and business stakeholders, translating product requirements into development plans, shaping feature scope, and communicating technical constraints in accessible terms.
- Delivered revenue-driving customer-facing React Native functionality that expanded advertising inventory by 5x, while proactively prototyping features ahead of formal requests to accelerate product development.