Systems that scale. Products that ship.
Senior Full Stack Engineer specializing in distributed systems, APIs, and full-stack applications with practical AI integration.
AI Systems Engineer
I ship systems that solve problems
- End-to-end development across backend and frontend
- Focus on design and architecture, not just coding
- Software at scale for real world use
Educator & Creator
Former teacher helping developers improve faster.
- Taught 250+ students across 16 coding bootcamps.
- Creator work: Sunday Go Lessons, So You Want to Play Go (4-book series), Journey to the Middle Kingdom.
- Students now working as engineers and senior engineers.
Core tech stack.
Backend, frontend, systems, and applied AI capabilities organized for fast scanning.
Backend
Scalable services, APIs, and platform work across enterprise and product environments.
- C# / .NET (ASP.NET, .NET Core, Blazor)
- Java (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Hibernate)
- Node.js
- Python (FastAPI)
Frontend
Modern UI work across product applications, education platforms, and internal tools.
- React
- Next.js
- Angular
- Blazor
Data & Systems
Data-intensive systems, infrastructure-aware delivery, and distributed application design.
- SQL (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL)
- Redis
- ETL pipelines
- Microservices
- Distributed systems
AI
Practical AI systems designed to work alongside real products and deterministic logic.
- Agentic AI
- RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
- Vector databases
- LangGraph
- Prompt engineering
Systems across learning platforms, agent workflows, and applied AI.
Selected projects spanning education platforms, AI systems, and production-minded experiments.
1 / 11
Coding Your Career
AI-powered learning platform with a custom LMS, AI teaching assistant, and automated content generation.
Custom LMS with AI teaching and grading workflows.
1 / 12
Sunday Go Lessons
Go learning platform combining structured lessons, problem training, and AI-powered game analysis using KataGo.
Structured teaching plus AI-powered game analysis.
1 / 6
Workflow IQ
Agent-based workflow system using DAG architecture to safely constrain and orchestrate AI agents.
1 / 3
Drive-Thru AI
Conversational AI system simulating a fully automated drive-thru ordering experience.
Capstone focused on real-world conversational messiness.
1 / 9
Legal Document Analyzer
AI-powered legal analysis system built to scale to millions of documents using Elasticsearch.
Search infrastructure paired with structured AI outputs.
Creative works shaped by storytelling and imagination
An outlet for an active imagination, these works reflect interest in strategy games, and world cultures.
1 / 6
Journey to the Middle Kingdom
A time-travel adventure comic inspired by Chinese mythology. Action, humor, culture, and meaningful life lessons for curious young readers and families.
Long-term storytelling project with its own world, tone, and visual identity.
1 / 5
So You Want to Play Go?
Four-book series teaching beginners how to play Go through structured lessons and progressive difficulty.
Four-book progression from beginner to independent player.
Experience and impact at a glance.
Selected highlights from fintech, enterprise systems, AI work, and technical instruction.
8+ years
in fintech, banking, and enterprise systems
750,000+ / day
financial transactions processed in a distributed ETL pipeline
380,000+ users
served through a Zelle mobile banking integration
250+ students
trained across 16 coding bootcamps
Selected achievements
A practical point of view on AI, systems, and communication.
AI can make decisions, but it should never be allowed to run wild.
Practical AI over hype
AI is not magic — it’s a tool for turning messy human input into structured, usable systems.
Reliable systems still matter
The real challenge isn’t generating text. It’s designing systems where AI works alongside deterministic logic, data pipelines, and real product constraints.
Build for real applications
I focus on building practical AI systems that integrate into real applications.