Building Ampwall, a mission-driven Public Benefit Company building an innovative e-commerce marketplace and community platform connecting music scenes, artists, and fans. It draws from my lifetime of experience as a touring musicians and songwriting combined with my career as a software engineer.
I'm architecting and building the entire platform from the ground up alongside a small dedicated team. Currently serving 1000+ paying members and 110k monthly visitors, managing 2TB of user content with a highly relational data model that supports complex artist/album/track relationships.
On the technical side, we were early adopter of Next.js Server Components to optimize performance for complex relational queries. Combined with aggressive caching, pagination, and React Suspense, we maintain a responsive user experience despite deeply nested data dependencies.
Some interesting technical challenges we've tackled:
•Implemented multi-currency PayPal commerce supporting both Personal and Business accounts, balancing platform accessibility with checkout experience
•Implemented a serverless audio transcoding pipeline using AWS Lambda and Step Functions to orchestrate multi-file album processing, handling memory-intensive operations with automatic retry logic
•Built a comprehensive fraud detection and mitigation system with tiered security responses and a Slack-based admin CLI for rapid response
•Manage the full infrastructure stack: ECS deployments, Lambda functions, Postgres with Redis job queues, and Cloudflare CDN
Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, AWS (ECS, Lambda, Step Functions), PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, Pulumi, Cloudflare
