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Software Engineer
based in Atlanta
Operating at every layer of the stack to craft elegant, performant, scalable, and advanced software for complex business needs.
Journey
Professional milestones and technical credentials.
Experience
Software Engineer
Tax Compliance Services Firm (Private)
Aug 2023 - Present
Developing high-volume enterprise tax platforms and interconnected applications.
- Played a key role in developing a React/Laravel customer-facing platform for onboarding, secure document handling, role-based access control, and 2FA, integrating with an internal system to support workflows for 50+ tax practitioners.
- Implemented full stack features across internal and external apps, ensuring reliable data handling, including background jobs and queues, GraphQL reporting, and third-party API integrations such as AWS S3, AWS SES, and Microsoft Graph API.
- Contributed to enterprise modernization by migrating internal tools from CodeIgniter to Laravel, rewriting controllers, models, and database logic to improve performance, maintainability, and reliability of a critical tax compliance platform.
Software Developer (Technical Analyst)
FIS
Aug 2022 - May 2023
Contributed to enterprise financial software solutions for banking clients.
- Improved an enterprise application for internal users to provide 1.8 million customers with a wide variety of financial services by utilizing advanced JavaScript algorithms, Java, JavaServer Pages, and XML, for optimal scalability.
- Trained by FIS on Systematics. Utilized knowledge to conduct IFX transactions linked to a Mainframe and ESL transactions formatted using XSL templates linked to an Oracle database with over 4000 tables.
- Part of Systematics Application Support and assigned to the Bank of the West account during the Bank of Montreal merger, in which I provided enhancements to a codebase with over 9500 source files.
Career Sabbatical: Upskilling
App Academy
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Dedicated period of intensive professional development.
- Voluntarily paused professional career to complete a 1000+ hour immersive software engineering curriculum, mastering modern full-stack architectures and agile workflows.
Web Developer & IT Admin
AAL & Service
Jan 2020 - Jan 2022
Led digital transformation and infrastructure management.
- Increased customer retention by over 37% during the COVID-19 pandemic - a challenging period in the transportation industry by designing and developing an entirely new services-based website.
- Spearheaded initiative of a new website from the ground up including development and design, migrating to a new secure hosting solution, updating payment systems, and researching for a new efficient transportation booking system.
- Single-handedly managed technical infrastructure that involved establishing a new company server and embracing better security practices for company computer systems and networks.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Kennesaw State University
Theoretical foundations and practical applications of computation and software development.
Data StructuresAlgorithm AnalysisDatabase SystemsComputer Networking
Immersive Software Engineering Program
App Academy
A highly intensive, 1000+ hour full-stack web development bootcamp with a focus on modern frameworks and agile methodologies.
1000+ hour rigorous course< 3% acceptance rateDaily pair programmingMastery-Based learning
Certifications
AWS Certified AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
In Progress
Epic React
by Kent C. Dodds
Completed
Skillsets
Continuously evolving my stack to maintain a bleeding-edge tech arsenal.
Frontend Engineering
Performant, maintainable, and accessible interfaces using modern web standards.
JavaScript TypeScript React Tanstack Query Redux Zustand React Router ExtJS / Sencha Astro Vite Next.js Tailwind CSS HTML CSS Material UI (MUI) Chakra UI
Backend Engineering
Reliable server-side systems, APIs, and service architectures.
Node.js Express Python Django Flask Java Spring Boot PHP Laravel CodeIgniter REST APIs GraphQL Microsoft Graph API AWS S3 AWS SES
DevOps & Infrastructure
Deployments, CI/CD processes, observability, and service operations at scale.
Git GitHub Actions Docker Nginx HAProxy AWS Cloudflare Vercel Netlify Linux WSL
Databases & Storage
Normalized schemas, improved query performance, and managing structured data stores.
SQL PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Supabase Sequelize SQLAlchemy Alembic Eloquent ORM
Testing & Quality Engineering
Reliability through automated testing at the unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.
Jest React Testing Library Mocha Chai PyTest JUnit Cypress Playwright Selenium
Developer Tools & Workflow
Productivity and debugging tools for efficient development cycles.
Postman Fiddler DbVisualizer dbForge Jira Zoho draw.io dbdiagram.io
Applied AI & Automation Integration
Integrating LLM-powered features into production systems for automation.
OpenAI API Anthropic API LLM prompt design Embeddings AI-assisted workflows API-based AI integrations AI Agents
3+
Systems Owned
6
Years of Experience
4+
Production Apps
Blog
A notebook dedicated to musings on all things tech.
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