Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Minor, Mathematics
Experience
RVO Health
Fort Mill, SC
Sept. 2025 – current
Principal Software Engineer
Blokpax
Remote
Sept. 2021 – Sept. 2025
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Rearchitected and reimplemented an NFT game mechanic to work with ERC-1155 tokens instead of ERC-721s
Further refined this rearchitecture to reduce the time needed to execute a "round" of the game from 2+
hours to less than 10 minutes
Designed and implemented a PCI-compliant service to process credit card data with minimal retention and
risk
Designed and implemented an ecommerce sales flow from scratch, with bespoke gating mechanisms
Implemented several full-stack dApps, including smart contract(s), to enable users to claim, purchase or
exchange NFTs
Implemented a gas-optimized ERC-1155 contract which combined ERC-1155 and ERC-721a, allowing users to mint
tokens at low cost
Migrated several Laravel applications from "pet" webservers to Docker containers on AWS Fargate using
Terraform
Introduced daily standups and agile methodology to the team, led semi-weekly sprint planning meetings
Coinbase
Remote
Mar. 2021 – Sept. 2021
Senior Software Engineer
Worked with a cross-functional team to launch a debit card product, integrating with several internal
services and an external partner
Helped to introduce agile methodology to the team, started sprint planning/grooming
Led the creation of a backend standards document, designed to reduce code review thrashing on "decided"
issues
Red Ventures
Fort Mill, SC
Sept. 2017 – Feb. 2021
Principal Software Engineer
Feb. 2020 – Feb. 2021
Senior Software Engineer
Sept. 2017 – Feb. 2020
Designed and implemented an API in Go for an internal system for doctors to update their credentials
Prototyped a command-line tool in Go to synchronize logic changes between CDN environments
Led the development of and architected large portions of a search and scheduling API for a major health
provider network, as part of the company's leap into healthcare
Helped to migrate a legacy AWS environment with about two dozen applications and services into a new one
built entirely via Terraform
Architected a modern backend for a travel product we acquired, helping to migrate from a Java-based
monolith to a more modular, cloud-native approach
Led the development of a CI/CD pipeline and provisioned infrastructure for the new travel backend using
Terraform
Helped to architect and led the development of an API to provide search and scheduling for healthcare
providers at a national scale
Helped to develop and formalize our version control strategy, and implemented documentation and contracts
that let us collaborate asynchronously with the frontend engineering team
Served as a mentor to many other engineers: reviewed code, assisted in debugging and gave advice on how to
move forward in their careers
LoudDoor / Storylift
Columbia, SC
June 2009 – Sept. 2017
Senior Software Engineer
Jan. 2015 – Sept. 2017
Software Engineer
June 2009 – Jan. 2015
Developed highly-scalable web applications using a LAMP stack deployed on Amazon EC2
Spearheaded the development of a business pivot to Facebook Page audience analytics
Prototyped most of the analytics algorithms and systems used in the company
Listed as a co-inventor of utility patent #9,842,349, "System and method for preference determination."
Consulted on a statistical study of Facebook fan engagement vs. age for Coca-Cola to present at a
conference
Designed and implemented a rich persona definition API in both Go and PHP which is still used for most of
the company's analytics work
Designed and implemented a worker daemon in Go that schedules and runs thousands of analytic tasks per day
Designed and implemented a datamining program in Go to find "interesting" crosstabs for clients
Created a web app that allowed the creation and execution of ad-hoc SQL queries for use in reporting
Designed and implemented a sales lead platform with the ability to forward leads to multiple client
platforms
Implemented a "management report" which contains critical metrics and is generated daily and e-mailed to
decision-makers at the company
Skills
Programming languages: Extensive experience with Go, PHP (standard and MVC paradigms,
Laravel framework), Javascript (ES6, Svelte, Vue, jQuery, some React); some experience with Solidity, C#,
shell scripting
Infrastructure: Extensive experience with Amazon AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, Lambda, some API
Gateway, some Cloudfront, some Kinesis), Terraform, CI/CD Pipelines such as Github Actions and CircleCI;
some experience with Kubernetes, Google Cloud, Cloudflare
Databases: Extensive experience with MySQL and SQL Server development/optimization, Redis;
some experience with MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL administration
Other technology: Extensive experience with Git; experience with Subversion, Mercurial, and
CVS version control, Memcache, Redis
Miscellaneous
Created
Section 411, a blog on the
Hugo platform with a theme designed from scratch