Founding full-stack Senior Software Engineer with expertise in engineering and deploying frontend and backend apps that run at scale. Passionate about startups, logistics, machine learning, social impact, music, soccer, skateboarding and homebrewing. would you like to buy me a coffee ☕?
Experience
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
0 → 1
• Helped take the platform from $0 to $2M+ ARR within the first few months
• Scaled the system from 0 to 180+ aircraft onboarded into the platform
• Built early product foundations across quoting, fleet management, and operator workflows
0 → N
• Designed systems to solve complex routing and quote optimization problems for multi-leg private aviation trips
• Integrated with legacy aviation systems for calendars, flight performance, and fuel data
• Built foundational architecture for fleet, calendar, and quote management workflows
• Played a key role in customer onboarding, working directly with operators to bring their fleets onto the platform
• Collaborated closely with CEO, product, operations, design, and engineering to shape product direction and execution
Summary:
Helped scale Hamilton AI from an early prototype into a production platform used by charter operators to manage fleets, generate and optimize quotes, run sales workflows, and operate their business.
The platform serves as an operational system for charter companies, spanning fleet management, quote management, sales workflows, and CRM capabilities.
2023 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed a robust video processing pipeline, involving the segmentation of videos for efficient AI processing. Implemented a post processing concatenation mechanism to seamlessly piece together video segments and saved the resulting videos to S3.
• Designed and implemented an intuitive and engaging user interface/user experience for video-related functionalities.
• Implemented caching strategies using Redis and CloudFront, enhancing the overall system's performance and responsiveness.
• Engineered a pricing engine/mechanism, freezing the cost of video generation in an escrow.
Orchestrated fund transactions from the escrow upon successful video generation and released frozen costs in case of generation failure.
• Proficiently utilized a diverse set of technologies, including TypeScript, React, Postgres, Tailwind, GCP Cloud Functions, Vercel, AWS S3 and CloudFront, Supabase, and UpStash.
• Operating within a microservices architecture, leveraging serverless infrastructure to ensure scalability and efficiency.
• Working closely and directly with the founders and customers and contributing to strategic discussions and aligning technical solutions with business objectives.
Exited and sold to a social media platform via a private deal.
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
Austin, Texas, United States
• Engineer hired # 4 working in a NodeJS and MongoDB environment running on AWS
• Designing, building and deploying testable and scalable RESTful APIs in NodeJs
• Integrating third party SOAP and REST APIs with carriers and sortation partners
• Systematizing and automating inbound and outbound data pipelines for invoices and end of day shipping manifests
• Using the Terraform AWS provider to provision infrastructure as code and automating CI/CD pipelines
• On-call to respond to unforeseen issues with API, customer/admin dashboards and data warehouse ETLs
• Participate in system design and architecture and code reviews as well as stand up meetings
2017 — 2021
2017 — 2021
San Francisco Bay Area
• Engineer and build products that directly increase EasyPost's revenue stream
• Part of the Growth team tasked with streamlining the process of user acquisition, conversion and retention
• Build, optimize and deploy production ready frontend and backend microservices
• Develop well-tested and performant React, MySQL, and Ruby code running in AWS
• On-call to fix issues and to ensure the reliability easypost.com
• Participate in system design and architecture, stand up meetings and code reviews
• Work in two-week sprints guided by the SCRUM framework
2015 — 2017
2015 — 2017
Redwood City, California
• Frontend Software Engineer utilizing AngularJS, Bootstrap, Bower, Grunt, HTML and CSS to build a robust data-driven AngularJS web app for Vindicia’s CashBox RESTful API
• Employing AngularJS best practices and commonly used modules to build self-contained and reusable components
• Architecting and coordinating services, controllers and routing communication
• Writing BDD tests using the Jasmine testing framework
• Applying graphic design knowledge to build intuitive and user friendly UIs
• Part of a collaborative team: working directly with product stakeholders
Education
San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Science (BS)
San Francisco State University
Minor
City College of San Francisco