Software Engineering
Leader & Architect
Building scaled SaaS platforms and leading engineering teams to deliver exceptional products.
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Career Journey
Organizations that have shaped my professional experience
Dodgeball
Enterprise Fraud Prevention Orchestration Platform
Printforia
Enterprise Print on Demand as a Service
EAP
Enterprise Application Platform
LifePort
Aerospace Manufacturing
Lockheed Martin
Aerospace and Defense
Social Media Platform
US Congress
Legislative Body
Education
Academic foundation and credentials
Technical Expertise
Tools, languages, and technologies I specialize in
Claude Code
AI-powered CLI for pair-programming and code generation
Cursor
AI-powered IDE for pair-programming with frontier models
OpenAI
GPT models, embeddings, and API integration for production systems
Frontier Models
Hands-on orchestration of models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, etc.
Agentic Workflows
Designing multi-step agents that call tools and hit prod SLAs
Multi-modal Prompt Engineering
Blending text, vision, and structured data in a single prompt
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Specification for creating deterministic context for LLMs
Structured Outputs
JSON-schema / type-guard techniques for reliable LLM responses
Python ML Stack
Scikit-learn, Pandas, etc.
Data Pipelines & ETL
Managing data pipelines and ETL processes
LLM-Enhanced Pipelines
Generative preprocessing steps feeding feature stores
AWS SageMaker
Training, tuning, and hosting at scale
TypeScript / JavaScript
Full-stack apps, Node.js services, browser UIs
Python
Data science, automation, backend APIs
C#
Enterprise APIs with .NET Core
SQL
Query optimisation across Postgres and other SQL databases
HTML & CSS (LESS / SCSS)
Responsive layouts, utility-first methodologies
Shell / Bash
Unix shell scripting, automation, and system administration
Node.js (Express / Fastify)
High-throughput REST & event-driven services
Django
Opinionated Python framework for rapid CRUD
.NET Core
Cross-platform APIs & background workers
TypeORM
TypeScript ORM for SQL databases with decorators and migrations
Prisma
Next-generation ORM with type-safe database access
React & Next.js
SSR / SSG apps with TypeScript and React Query
Vue 3
Composition API & Pinia state management
Angular
Enterprise dashboards & admin portals
Docker & Kubernetes
Containerisation and orchestration
AWS
VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, EKS, EC2, etc.
Microsoft Azure
App Services, Functions, AD B2C, Key Vault
Terraform
Infrastructure-as-Code
Cloudflare
DNS, Hosting, CDN, WAF
NGINX
Reverse proxy & load-balancing
Git & GitHub
Branch strategies & code-review workflows
GitHub Actions & CircleCI
Automated build-test-deploy pipelines
Playwright
Cross-browser end-to-end testing
Artillery
Load testing & performance baselining
Jest
Unit and integration tests for TS/JS codebases
PostgreSQL
ACID-compliant relational database
Cassandra
Wide-column NoSQL for multi-region writes
Redis
In-memory cache, pub/sub, ephemeral queues
RabbitMQ
AMQP broker for reliable event delivery
Apache Kafka
Distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput data pipelines
Apache Zookeeper
Centralized coordination service for distributed systems
Datadog
APM, metrics, and logs for full-stack observability
Sentry
Real-time error tracking with commit insights
PagerDuty
On-call scheduling and incident orchestration
OAuth 2.0
Authorization framework for delegated access
Auth0
Identity-as-a-Service with enterprise SSO
JWT Tokens
JSON Web Tokens for stateless authentication and authorization
Session Authentication
Traditional server-side session management and cookies
Key Vaults
Managed secrets storage (AWS Secrets Mgr, Azure Key Vault)
Inkscape
Vector illustration & SVG asset creation
GIMP
Raster editing & photo compositing
Canva
Cloud-based design platform for marketing materials and presentations
Shopify App Development
Building apps for Shopify ecosystem with App Bridge and APIs
SOLID Principles
SRP, OCP, LSP, ISP, DIP for maintainable OO design
Design Patterns
GoF creational / structural / behavioral patterns
Singleton Pattern
Ensuring single instance creation with global access point
Decorator Pattern
Adding behavior to objects dynamically without altering structure
Repository Pattern
Data access abstraction layer for domain-driven design
Microservices Architecture
Service decomposition, bounded contexts, cross-cutting concerns
Monolithic Architecture
Single-tier software architecture with unified codebase
Modular Monoliths
Single deployable with strict internal domain boundaries
Systemic Refactoring
Incremental improvements guided by tests and metrics
Enterprise-Grade Strategies
Scalability, resilience, compliance for mission-critical SaaS
CAP Theorem
Consistency–Availability–Partition-tolerance trade-offs
Data Migration
Strategic data movement between systems with minimal downtime
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