The tl;dr:

Software Developer • Team Lead / Manager
in Broomfield, Colorado, USA

I am a hands-on software builder/leader with 15+ years building and shipping products end-to-end. I enjoy challenges that use my technical skills and allow me to grow as a technologist, and working with teams full of innovative and creative people that are all working towards a shared goal.

Core Skills

Leadership & Delivery:

Roadmapping, product ownership, team hiring/mentoring, cross-functional alignment, PR/code review, incident response, stakeholder communication.

Languages (and Frameworks):

• JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, Vue/Nuxt, React, Gatsby, Tauri, Capacitor),
• Go,
• Python,
• Rust (Dioxus)

Back-End & Data:

APIs, ETL pipelines, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.

Infrastructure:

AWS, DigitalOcean, CI/CD (GitHub), infrastructure setup & cost optimization.

Geo & 3D:

• JavaScript Libraries (Leaflet, CesiumJS, ESRI)
• Data (PostGIS)
• Desktop (ArcMap + python automation, QGis)

Experience

Principal Software Engineer — RCG Inc

December 2023 – Current
As one of the Principal Software Engineers in RCG, working on various parts of SPEAR.

• Owned development of Radios and Audio microservices
• Worked on various other microservices focused on data import and manipulation
• Worked on a variety of front-end updates
  Stack: React, Node.js, Go, FFMPEG

Head of Software Engineering — Satellite IM, Inc.

May 2021 – December 2023
Led development and launch of a private decentralized chat application across platforms.

• Split responsibilities across product ownership, engineering management, release planning, and quality: reviewed all code, instituted CI/CD, and built/managed cloud infrastructure
• Owned feature delivery, bug triage, process improvements, investor demos, and community support
• Grew and coordinated a ~25-person, fully distributed team across 13 time zones
  Stack: Vue/Nuxt, Node.js, IPFS; AWS, DigitalOcean; Tauri, Capacitor, Rust (Dioxus)

Lead Software Engineer — ICF International

Aug 2018 – Apr 2021
Re-architected and productized a marketplace platform for energy-efficiency clients (scale, security, and logistics focused).

• Modernized team infrastructure and migrated projects to cost-efficient cloud environments with streamlined CI/CD
• Built secure data processing tools to ingest/export from legacy systems
• Rebuilt a core “find-a-provider” solution into a reusable template to make it easier/faster to deploy and 98% cheaper to host while enabling analysts to manage data and minor UI updates
  Stack: Node.js, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Shopify, AWS, on-prem infrastructure; React, Gatsby

Software Engineer — ACES Incorporated

Jun 2016 – Dec 2017
Front-end engineer for DoD project, delivering performant UIs and 3D mapping capabilities.
Stack: HoganJS templating (no relation), Bootstrap, CesiumJS, Vanilla JavaScript

Software Engineer — LootSafe, Inc.

Jan 2017 – Jul 2017
Built blockchain asset integrations for game engines and crypto wallets; API development in Node.js and Unity-adjacent workflows.
Stack: Node.js; some C# in Unity3D

Software Engineer — Fearless Solutions

Jun 2014 – Mar 2016
Front-end JavaScript for DoD contracts; full-stack work for commercial clients.
Stack: Angular, React, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL

Senior Geospatial Engineer — ICF International

Jun 2007 – Jan 2014
Delivered Python/JavaScript/GIS solutions for state/federal and large commercial clients; frequently led small delivery teams under tight deadlines.

• Specialized in web mapping solutions and geospatial data workflows

Education

B.S., Geography — Salisbury University (2007)