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Startups, small businesses, mid-sized companies, large corporations, self-employment; I've had a taste of it all. One thing has been consistent in all my positions: my thirst to learn and grow. Each position has offered many experiences to do just that.

September 2025 - Present Owner & Principal Engineer | ByteCabinet | Remote

• Replaced a brittle WP EasyCart implementation for a defense equipment retailer with a custom OpenCart build, including a native extension for automated distributor FTP sync and drop-ship API fulfillment — eliminating all manual order processing.
• Optimized a production ecommerce search query from 30 seconds to under 2 via targeted database indexing.
• Built a full event registration platform with tiered pricing, early-bird discounts, per-event capacity limits, and abandoned cart recovery.
• Designed and deployed a WireGuard VPN with web UI for a SaaS client, using it to IP-whitelist the staging environment and restrict access to sensitive production resources previously open to the public.
• Proposed a containerization migration for a SaaS client's flagship product projected to reduce baseline hosting costs from $300 to $20/month.

Languages/Frameworks

• PHP
• Mako
• MySQL
• Inertia
• Vue
• SASS

Tools/Platforms

• AWS
• Linode
• Docker
• CI/CD
• GitHub
• Apache
• Coolify
• WireGuard
• Astro
• OpenCart
• SQLite

Concepts/Practices

• Coding standards

January 2026 - Present Online Grader - IT/CS | BYU Pathway Worldwide | Remote

• Built a Chrome extension redesigning the Canvas SpeedGrader workflow from manual-step to auto-advance with override, shrinking a 5-minute grading task to under 30 seconds.
• Integrated local LLM inference via Ollama to automate rubric-to-submission matching, reducing manual review time per submission.
• Grade introductory coursework in cloud computing, software development (Python), and agile project management.

Languages/Frameworks

• Python

Tools/Platforms

• Chrome
• CRXJS

Concepts/Practices

• Local LLM inference
• AI integration

May 2023 - January 2025 Senior Software Engineer | Scriptive | Remote

• Proposed, designed, and built the Author Portal, eliminating recurring spam submissions and consolidating author communication from three tools into one — reducing process management time by an estimated 50%.
• Discovered hardcoded production database admin credentials in phpMyAdmin configuration exposing public admin access; remediated overnight, investigated for unauthorized access, and authored the incident report.
• Took over and led development of the flagship SaaS platform from an inherited codebase, establishing quality standards while delivering features and systematically addressing technical debt.
• Participated in initial requirements gathering, database design, and user story planning for the flagship product.
• Collaborated on and reviewed code quality improvements against a codebase inherited from a prior vendor with inconsistent standards.

Languages/Frameworks

• PHP
• Laravel
• Mako
• MySQL
• Inertia
• Vue
• Tailwind CSS
• SASS

Tools/Platforms

• AWS
• Linode
• Docker
• CI/CD
• GitHub
• Apache
• WireGuard

Concepts/Practices

• Leadership
• Team management
• Instruction
• Coding standards
• Security incident response

December 2018 - August 2024 Software Developer / Systems Administrator | ApplicantPro / iSolved | Remote

• Led Stripe and AvaTax integration across multiple engineering teams, shifting tax liability to customers and recovering 7% in operating expenses while eliminating 20 combined monthly hours of manual overhead from accounting and billing.
• Deployed Zabbix across a fleet of 150 servers (up from 16), standardizing role-aware monitoring and multiplying observable metrics 10-100x per endpoint, alongside Ansible for configuration management.
• Architected Graylog log aggregation from zero across 150 servers and multiple codebases — the observability foundation the DevOps team later used to build an in-house APM platform.
• Contributed to zero-downtime migration of the flagship ATS platform from end-of-life CentOS 6 infrastructure serving 10k clients and 150k users at sustained 1k+ requests/second.
• Designed and built the backend foundations for Text2Apply, a client-configurable SMS bridge for the flagship ATS; identified a structural conflict in the core data model and proposed a reorganization that resolved systematic UX and process issues.
• Mentored four engineers across software development and systems administration roles.
• Contributed across 10+ software projects serving 10k clients, 150k users, and 10TB of data at 1k+ requests/second.

Languages/Frameworks

• PHP
• MySQL
• Go
• Node.js
• Bash
• YAML

Tools/Platforms

• Apache
• pfSense
• FortiGate
• OpenVPN
• SSH
• VirtualBox
• Docker
• Amazon Web Services
• Linode
• Ansible
• Graylog
• PHPUnit
• Stripe
• AvaTax
• Imperva WAF
• F5 WAF

Concepts/Practices

• CI/CD
• Unit testing
• Integration testing
• Backups
• Security and system hardening

December 2019 - August 2022 CTO / Partner | Pulse Scooters | Remote

• Sole architect and developer of the web application foundations, including partner time tracking and IoT device communication.
• Collaborated with hardware engineer to design a lightweight encrypted communication protocol minimizing data transfer volume between IoT scooters and backend.
• Utilized built-in cryptographic libraries for secure device authentication — no third-party security dependencies.

Languages/Frameworks

• PHP
• Fat-Free Framework
• MySQL

Tools/Platforms

• CI/CD
• PHPUnit
• Apache
• SSH

Concepts/Practices

• IOT
• Security and system hardening
• Encryption
• Cryptography
• Unit testing
• Integration testing

March 2017 - December 2018 Associate Partner — IT | The Intelitech Group | Camas, WA

• Architected a Graylog log aggregation pipeline from default configuration to a production-grade system with structured streams, index sets, and processing rules — eliminating daily manual IP blacklisting and automating firewall-level blocking of repeat offenders via pfSense integration, saving 30-60 minutes of daily manual work.
• Deployed high-availability pfSense firewall pairs across office and datacenter with OpenVPN site-to-site failover configuration.
• Led phone system modernization from aging PBX to virtualized Twilio VoIP platform, later foundational for company-wide remote work.
• Served as significant technical respondent during a successful SOC2 audit, demonstrating Graylog and pfSense security controls in real-time to auditors.
• Configured Microsoft 365 audit log ingestion via custom parser into Graylog for compliance visibility.
• Set up IP reputation blacklisting, geo-blocking, and Snort IDS evaluation across perimeter firewalls.

Languages/Frameworks

• PHP
• C#

Tools/Platforms

• Graylog
• Windows
• Apache
• pfSense
• OpenVPN
• SSH

Concepts/Practices

• VoIP
• SOC2 compliance
• Automated threat response
• Backups
• Security and system hardening
• High availability
• Networking
• Firewalls

January 2015 - January 2017 Missionary | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Dallas / East Texas Area

• Served as informal lead tech missionary during iPad rollout across a mission of ~200 missionaries.
• Built a member list conversion tool outputting Garmin GPS waypoints and Maps.me files, including Google Maps geocoding, color-coded household status indicators, custom notes formatting, and multi-source API rate handling.
• Scaled tool for mission-wide deployment overnight at mission president's request, including documentation and parallel processing support for distributed use.

Languages/Frameworks

• PHP

Tools/Platforms

• Google Maps API
• Geocoding
• GPS data formats
• Maps.me

Concepts/Practices

• Leadership
• Team management
• Public speaking
• Instruction

January 2014 - December 2014 Tutor | Lower Columbia College | Longview, WA

• Tutored computer science and mathematics courses for college and adjacent high school students.
• Built a desktop application automating tutor timesheet generation, saving approximately 15 minutes per pay period per tutor.
• Collaborated with another tutor on a web-based version using Morse code over audio connection for cross-device data transfer — a constraint-driven creative solution worth noting for the portfolio.

Languages/Frameworks

• PHP
• C#
• .NET

Tools/Platforms

• Windows

Concepts/Practices

• PDF processing
• Math
• Computer Science

January 2013 - December 2013 IT Student Technician | Lower Columbia College | Longview, WA

• Wrote a bash script to standardize and automate software upgrades across 100-200 student computers campus-wide, ensuring consistent state across all machines simultaneously.
• Helped with issues regarding Windows computers and the campus network.
• Repaired and replaced parts in Windows computers.
• Maintained and regularly updated computers.
• Troubleshoot and facilitated the repair of audio/video equipment.

Languages/Frameworks

• Bash

Tools/Platforms

• Windows

Concepts/Practices

• Guidance