A track record of shipping real software

Lincoln, Nebraska

• Co-founded and serve as sole developer for a healthcare staffing platform that connects healthcare facilities, clinicians, and recruiters into a single seamless workflow, automating the staffing process.
• The platform is a React + TypeScript front end styled with Tailwind and shadcn components, backed by a .NET API and SQL Server database, with file storage in Azure Blob Storage.
• Architected the entire cloud footprint on Azure, provisioned as code with Terraform, and ship through fully automated CI/CD using Azure YAML pipelines.
• Making product and UX decisions from start to finish, always ensuring a simple and easy to use experience for non-technical facility staff, recruiters, and clinicians.

Remote

• Backend engineer on the team delivering real-time updates to app users over WebSockets.
• Focused on performance under extreme load, the system had to stay responsive for a massive concurrent user base, with peaks during big time sporting events such as the Super Bowl.
• Worked across the .NET / C# stack, optimizing throughput and latency in a high-traffic distributed system.

Omaha, Nebraska

• Standard .NET backend development consolidating the products of multiple acquired companies into a single unified platform for the parent company.

Lincoln, Nebraska

• Joined as an intern and was brought on full-time, progressing through Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and ultimately Lead Software Engineer over six years.
• As lead, headed the cloud solutions development team - owned project planning, set delivery timelines, and ran code reviews to keep quality high.
• Spearheaded the design and development of a web application for rapid visualization and analysis of digital evidence, built on Vue, Kendo UI, .NET Core, and Azure services.
• Designed and implemented a .NET Core platform integrating Dapr and Azure Kubernetes Service to simplify microservices creation for app developers.
• Built a cloud-based .NET Core application on Azure using queue triggers and SignalR, and introduced a Blazor server-side admin portal built with Kendo UI.
• Led database research and benchmarking across Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Database, and Azure SQL (Hyperscale) to evaluate options for large dataset analysis.
• Earlier in the role, enhanced a WPF application (.NET Framework, C#, XAML, Oracle) and built out data visualization features - graphs, charts, maps, and reports.