A living portfolio of systems, experiments, credentials, and contributions from startups and enterprise teams.

CTO · Future Fest (2022–Present)

Virtual Events Platform

Led architecture across React/TypeScript frontend, Go backend, Terraform IaC, and AWS serverless infrastructure.

  • Built multi-environment AWS + Auth0 setup (dev/stage/prod).
  • Integrated WebSocket-driven real-time systems and admin moderation tools.
  • Shipped Unity web streaming integration and digital shop with wallet/NFT support.

Future Fest

Amazon / One Medical (2023–2025)

Login with Amazon Integration

Led iOS-side implementation and delivery for account login, signup, and account linking across Amazon and One Medical.

  • Coordinated iOS, Android, web, design, and backend stakeholders.
  • Resolved platform-specific authentication issues and improved reliability.
  • Helped adoption of incident management and operational metrics practices.

Related experience

AI Tooling (2024–Present)

AI Developer Agent

Built a self-hosted LangGraph-based AI agent for automated PR creation, code analysis, and repository understanding.

  • Integrated OpenAI API + GitLab merge request workflows.
  • Deployed on homelab stack with Proxmox, Docker, qdrant, and orchestration tooling.
  • Contributed upstream to LangGraph.

LangGraph PR

Capital One (2014–2021)

iOS Platform Architecture

Built major internal framework and security foundations for large-scale mobile applications.

  • Created Mantle networking framework to improve API development speed.
  • Led watchOS implementation and solved keychain-sharing constraints.
  • Co-invented patented secure communication framework.

Patent

Startup / Games (2013–2017)

Blast Zone Studios

Co-founded indie mobile game studio and completed a 12-week app-a-week shipping challenge.

  • Built and shipped iOS/Android games with Cocos2d-x (C++).
  • Established reusable game framework modules over rapid iteration cycles.
  • Published dev logs and demos publicly.

YouTube channel

Video Highlights

More on YouTube

Let's Encrypt Tutorial

Step-by-step walkthrough for generating and installing free SSL certificates.

Global Game Jam 2020

One of the game jam highlights tied to the projects above.

LambdaConf Talk

How to use covariance and contravariance to build flexible, robust programs.

Lessons Learned: Capital One iPhone App

Engineering lessons on architecture patterns, performance, and team execution.

Plasma (First Game)

Early 2010 game project built with C# and XNA, focused on bullet-hell mechanics and effects.

Open Source Contributions

Talks, Writing, and Technical Notes

Pure Functions in Swift (Proposal)

Forum proposal advocating language-level support for pure functions in Swift.

Read on Swift Forums

Machine Learning and MLKit Talk

YouTube session covering practical ML/MLKit concepts and developer-oriented implementation details.

Watch video

Hubot + Slack in One Pomodoro

Fast-paced walkthrough of setting up Hubot with Slack in a single focused session.

Watch video

Cardano CBOR Validator Proposal

Catalyst proposal for a Cardano-focused validator/debug toolkit aimed at improving developer workflows.

View proposal details

iOS biometryType Investigation

Public bug investigation with repro app, radar, and developer forum thread.

OpenRadar report

The Futures Are Now

Medium article on asynchronous iOS development before async/await was available.

Read article

Certifications

  • Apollo Graph Developer - Associate

    Issued: November 13, 2025 - Verification

    Foundational knowledge of GraphQL schema design, Apollo Server 4, and Apollo Client 3 queries.

  • AWS Certified Developer - Associate

    Issued: August 18, 2023 - Verification

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

    Issued: August 19, 2023 - Verification

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)

    Issued: August 28, 2023 - Verification

  • CircleCI Associate Developer

    Issued: November 14, 2023 - Verification

  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects (DeepLearning.AI)

    Issued: October 10, 2019 - Verification

  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

    Issued: July 12, 2019 - Verification

  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

    Issued: March 17, 2018 - Verification

  • Microsoft Certified: SQL Server 2005 - Implementation and Maintenance (Exam 70-431)

    Issued: December 12, 2008.

  • IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 9 Fundamentals

    Issued: June 13, 2008 - IBM Professional Certification Program.

Patent

Secure and Privacy Aware Monitoring with Dynamic Resiliency for Distributed Systems

Patent work focused on resilient, encrypted communication patterns for distributed systems, including secure transport and dynamic trust mechanisms.

US11652721B2 on Google Patents