Detail-oriented Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and building scalable applications at BigCommerce. Over the years, I’ve grown from providing hands-on API support to leading the architecture and development of core services that power one of the world’s leading e-commerce platforms.

Experience

2019 — 2025BigCommerceSenior Software Engineer

2019 — 2025

Austin, Tx

Engineering lead for the Trial Service, owning system design, planning, scoping, and end-to-end implementation for automated trial store provisioning and lifecycle management.

Engineering lead for the Control Panel Project, defining frontend architecture and leading hands-on implementation using React and TypeScript.

Engineering lead for the Content Engine project, designing and delivering a suite of PHP APIs that served user-specific onboarding content consumed by Control Panel and onboarding frontends.

Designed and implemented an AI-powered control panel chatbot using embeddings-based semantic search to ingest and query BigCommerce documentation.

Conducted exploratory work on vector-based image similarity using embeddings to evaluate feasibility for automated image matching and classification use cases.

Designed and delivered backend services across Rails, Node.js, and PHP, exposing APIs via REST, GraphQL, and gRPC while mentoring engineers and guiding best practices.

2017 — 2019BigCommerceSoftware Engineer II

2017 — 2019

Developed and maintained backend features in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and PHP; built APIs consumed by React and TypeScript frontends.

Implemented React and TypeScript UI components and participated in Angular-to-React migrations to modernize legacy interfaces.

Assisted with development of an Angular-based customer onboarding micro-application loaded into the BigCommerce Control Panel, collaborating closely with backend and platform teams.

Diagnosed and resolved production issues across frontend and backend systems, improving stability and reducing support escalations.

2016 — 2017BigCommerceSoftware Engineer I

2016 — 2017

Built public-facing APIs and backend features in Ruby and PHP; investigated and resolved production bugs.

2014 — 2016BigCommerceTools Developer

2014 — 2016

Built and maintained internal Ruby on Rails applications supporting customer support operations.

2011 — 2014BigCommerceEscalation Engineer

2011 — 2014

Provided advanced API troubleshooting and integration support for partners and internal teams.

Education

Texas State University

Experience

Education

Bachelors