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Over a decade of building production web applications from startups to large enterprises.

Full history from my resume — most recent first. Each stop shaped how I build for UX, performance, accessibility, and documentation.

Head of Developer Relations

Harper

Nov 2025 – Sep 2026

  • Architected and deployed an autonomous 5-agent LLM pipeline for DevRel content generation, cutting delivery time and turnaround by 60%+.
  • Led developer education, community strategy, and technical onboarding demos for enterprise partners across the Harper ecosystem.
  • Hosted the Harper SELECT * podcast — deep-dives with ecosystem leaders on distributed systems, DBMS architecture, and open-source tooling.
LLM orchestrationDevReldistributed systems

Developer Experience Engineer

Harper

Oct 2024 – Nov 2025

  • Built a new distributed DBMS UI and orchestration layer from the ground up with React and TanStack libraries.
  • Designed and shipped the Harper Server Log Viewer within one week — 300%+ increase in forward deployment engineers independently debugging customer issues.
  • Maintained and optimized legacy database management interfaces during the platform transition.
ReactTanStackDBMS UI

Senior Software Engineer

Spring Health

Mar 2023 – Oct 2024

  • Core contributor to an enterprise monorepo upgrade from Node 14 to 21 (240+ deps); led the JS → TypeScript migration.
  • Engineered the late-cancellation workflow and UI — ~34% fewer care-support tickets, ~25% lower ops expense per appointment.
  • Co-built the insurance integration interface, materially reducing member intake failures and insurance-related support inquiries.
  • Founded the bi-weekly Front-End Learning Group — 30+ engineers per session on framework architecture, state management, and performance.
TypeScriptmonorepomentorship

Software Engineer II

Microsoft

Aug 2020 – Feb 2023

  • Pivoted Microsoft Certifications off Credly by building a W3C-compliant Verifiable Credential Service + credential-issuing UI.
  • Co-engineered a high-volume parsing and migration engine for Channel 9 — 95%+ of video archives (back to the early 2000s) migrated into Microsoft Learn.
  • Owned the Fastify 2.x → 3.x upgrade and type-system refactor powering the core rendering engine for docs.microsoft.com.
  • Migrated docs.microsoft.com telemetry to a modular frontend analytics layer with parallel execution and vendor decoupling.
FastifyNode.jstelemetry

Senior User Interface Engineer

Allstate

May 2018 – Aug 2020

  • Co-led performance re-architecture of the MileWise app — 300% improvement in load times via optimized client-side data flows.
  • Led the Angular 2.0 MVP redesign; consolidated shared components into Allstate's unified Angular Pattern Library.
  • Built reusable UI components and docs for the enterprise React Pattern Library.
  • Awarded the org-wide "Be The Leader Award" twice (Mar + Apr 2019) for cross-team technical leadership.
AngularReactperformance

Front-End & Software Roles

Early career · contract + full-time

2016 – 2018

  • Shipped production client apps, responsive UIs, and SPA architectures across IntelliCentrics, Ambit Energy, Cambium Learning Group, Wavcatcher, Pixels and Profit, and Speetra.
SPAsresponsive UIclient work
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