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About Me ​

Background ​

I'm a talented and driven Software Engineer with a strong background in both frontend and backend development. I have a deep understanding of various programming languages and frameworks, and I am always eager to learn and stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends.

Skills ​

  • Frontend: React, Vue.js, TypeScript
  • Backend: Node.js, Express, Go, Java, PHP
  • Database: MongoDB, Firebase, PostgreSQL, MySQL
  • Tools: Git, Docker, AWS, Slack, Jira, Notion

Experience ​

Back-end Engineer II @ Udacity (2025–Present) ​

  • Designing and maintaining production-quality microservices using GoLang, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL for Udacity's rapidly growing platform
  • Managing cloud infrastructure with AWS and Kubernetes, and implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform
  • Participating in on-call rotation for production incident response, maintaining 99.9% service uptime
  • Optimizing SQL query performance and implementing distributed event streaming with Kafka
  • Building and maintaining core internal APIs supporting application services used by students worldwide
  • Configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment

Software Engineer @ All Things JS (2025) ​

  • Taskboard: Demonstrated proficiency in Typescript and React by discovered bugs and implemented fixes to improve the user experience.
  • Taskboard-API: Demonstrated proficiency in Typescript and modern JavaScript technologies by building a backend that solves the scaling issues presented with using Firebase’s non-relational databases.

Backend Engineer @ Subsplash (2022–2024) ​

  • Identified the deprecation of Google’s legacy FCM API and communicated to my team how and when this would affect our services. Then, I then documented and implemented a migration plan to successfully update all 5,000+ of our affected clients’ apps without causing an outage and provided zero downtime for clients before the deadline arrived.
  • Conducted an in-person demo of the Subsplash SaaS Platform with my church over the course of 3 months to demonstrate the processes that our platform could enable. This allowed me to gain firsthand feedback of our products which allowed me to triage and resolve 5 high-priority bugs that were previously unable to be reproduced.
  • Discovered and resolved a major regression in our React-Native code greatly affecting the UX of all iOS alert/prompts on devices across all our apps.

Education ​

  • 🎓Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from Lamar University (2016)

Contact ​

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