Software engineer · Technical leader · Builder
Three decades of experience turning complicated systems into dependable products, from aerospace and education to payments, security, APIs, and cloud platforms.
About
I am a senior software engineer and technical leader with thirty years of professional experience. My work has ranged from defense and aerospace research to consumer entertainment, children’s education, payment processing, customer platforms, and the infrastructure beneath them.
I am most useful where product needs, software architecture, operations, security, and real-world constraints collide. I have led teams, designed APIs, supported regulatory requirements, helped guide cloud migrations, and built internal tools that make complicated systems easier to understand and operate.
My engineering philosophy is straightforward: make the system legible, reduce unnecessary machinery, treat security and operations as product concerns, and leave the codebase kinder than I found it.
Selected experience
A representative cross-section
Platform leadership
Led engineering work across customer-facing platforms, payment processing, messaging, internal APIs, and operational tooling. Supported complex payment behavior and differing regulatory requirements while keeping the system understandable.
Cloud & operations
Helped coordinate a Heroku-to-AWS migration by bridging application and infrastructure concerns. Built tools for review-app visibility, lifecycle management, and usage analysis so teams could see the machinery instead of merely hearing it rattle.
Security & governance
Supported recurring ISO 27001 audits and worked across teams to turn security controls into repeatable engineering habits rather than an annual archaeological dig.
Research & visualization
Researched and implemented advanced cartographic and weather-visualization tools, and contributed to DARPA-funded humanitarian landmine-detection software using camera-equipped drones.
Selected projects
Some are active, some are historical, and all say something about how I like to build.
Philately & digital archives
An evolving archive and exhibition space for postal art, cachets, commemorative covers, and the stories behind them.
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Collaborative fiction
A branching, serial-storytelling experiment that turns collaborative writing into a navigable web application.
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Visual authoring
A browser-based WYSIWYG tool for assembling image sliders without hand-authoring the underlying markup and configuration.
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Image processing
A web application that transforms uploaded images into large-scale photographic mosaics using custom image-processing code.
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