Senior Staff Software Engineer · Hands-on Tech Lead
I lead the platforms behind Marriott’s global sales tools, Best Western’s reservation services, and Fuel iX’s LLM conversation evaluation.
18+ years building full-stack platforms, now leading hands-on delivery at TELUS Digital.
SHIP IT COLORSELECTED WORK
Enterprise platforms, practical AI, and the engineering behind them.
Latest project Best Western
Service Layer Tech Lead · Senior Staff Software Engineer TELUS Digital
Led the service layer across shared business logic, web and mobile APIs, delivering reservation history and digital check-in while guiding technical planning and reliability work.
Marriott — MI Sales Companion
Founding Engineer & Tech Lead · Senior → Senior Staff Software Engineer TELUS Digital
Founding engineer and tech lead for the platform Marriott’s sales teams use to build property presentations. Led the AWS replatforming, owned releases and peak-traffic reliability, and represented engineering in Marriott security and architecture reviews.
Fuel iX
Backend Tech Lead · Senior Staff Software Engineer TELUS Digital
Backend tech lead for Fuel iX Agent Quality Management (AQM). Took the backend from alpha to its December 2025 production launch: designed the vCon transcript gateway, aligned three engineering teams, and hardened the services on Google Cloud Run.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Built core patient navigation and content features for the headless uvahealth.com rebuild, set component quality standards across the team, and wrote the developer onboarding guide.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Helped ACD Operations launch the new aiacontracts.com: a Next.js and TypeScript e-commerce site for AIA contract documents, built on Azure with Contentful, BigCommerce, and Stripe.
Lead Software Engineer
Led a distributed team developing related web and mobile products for the mortgage and real-estate space.
Contract software engineering · 2021–2022
Contributed full-stack engineering to a web application for remote self-storage operations and Webex call routing. Worked on the Python/Django backend, Kubernetes infrastructure, Auth0 authentication, frontend sign-in, and Webex backend integration, with later work on iPad compatibility and embedded remote signing.
Python, Django, React, TypeScript, Kubernetes, Auth0, Cisco Webex
Senior Software Engineer · TELUS Digital
Built a service for generating PDFs of Manulife’s funds.
Node.js, Puppeteer, AWS
Software Engineer
Recruited to architect the website; developed mobile test-preparation apps and unit testing for deployment.
PHP, JavaScript, Android, iOS
View website for ShmoopApplication development
An application for tracking foreign-exchange activity and supporting management decisions.
View website for Monitor — KlarityFXTHE STACK
INDEPENDENT PROJECTS
Running companions, multiplayer worlds, and room to experiment.
iPhone & Apple Watch
Daily running guidance for iPhone and Apple Watch, built around Apple Health.
View app: Runbo
Browser game · Multiplayer
A real-time browser battle royale with server-controlled matches, bot opponents, and a streamed 2D world.
Canvas 2D · Node.js · WebRTC
Play game: Birb RoyaleiOS & Android · React Native
Language learning across iPhone and Android.
View project: QuickLangEarlier experiments
Spatial play in Unity for Google Daydream.
Watch archived demo: Shape ExplorerA 2D arcade game built in Java.
Watch gameplay: Traveler 208ABOUT & EXPERIENCE
I connect technical direction with working software: shaping architecture, writing code, and mentoring engineers. My work spans enterprise platforms, cloud delivery, and practical AI integrations.
I stay close to implementation, from application code to cloud releases. Thoughtful reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD are part of how I help teams deliver maintainable software.
Aug 2017–present
Senior Software Engineer → Senior Staff Software Engineer
Jan 2016–Jul 2017
Lead Software Engineer
May 2011–Dec 2015
Software Engineer
2010–2011
Web Developer · Contract
