Software Engineer

I ship, therefore I am.

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I'm a software engineer obsessed with why things work, not just making them work.

My work sits at the intersection of AI, systems design, and whatever problem domain is interesting enough to lose sleep over. I'm drawn to interdisciplinary challenges — using code as a tool to solve problems in fields beyond software itself. Physics, healthcare, construction, finance — the domain doesn't matter as much as the impact. My analogy: I want to build the software equivalent of a bridge — something that quietly saves millions of hours of people's lives.

Most recently, I was the founding engineer at Blue Collar Pro, where I built a full-stack construction marketplace from scratch. Eight weeks, no sleep, three days straight at one point — just chasing the MVP, making decisions fast, solving problems as they came. That experience reshaped how I think about reliability, concurrency, and technical choices that compound.

I like to understand a problem before I start solving it — architecture diagrams, research, reasoning on paper. But once I know the direction, I move fast. Build, break, iterate, ship.

What drives me is a feeling I first experienced solving algebra equations as a kid — that moment when it clicks. I've been chasing that feeling ever since.

Outside of code, I shoot photography and travel spontaneously. Pack a bag, figure out the rest on the way.

Featured Project

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Parser — Construction Cost RAG Pipeline

Multi-stage document parsing pipeline with LLM post-processing and RAG-based semantic search over construction cost data.

PythonDoclingEasyOCRPandasLlamaIndexChromaDBHuggingFaceFlashRank

Experience

Oct 2025 — Present

Founding Software Engineer

The Blue Collar Pro

Architected and delivered a full-stack construction marketplace (182 REST endpoints, 39 data models) with horizontally scalable, stateless microservices on AWS; production-ready for high-volume traffic. Designed a Stripe Connect escrow system supporting milestone payouts, ACH transfers, disputes, and reversals; implemented multi-layer idempotency and transactional safeguards to prevent duplicate payments under concurrent webhook retries. Eliminated race conditions across milestone approvals, bid acceptance, and trade slot allocation using Prisma $transaction, unique constraints, and optimistic concurrency controls. Built double-entry accounting ledger with atomic transaction validation (totalDebits = totalCredits) to guarantee financial integrity across all payment flows. Optimized backend reliability by implementing connection pooling (15 max connections/container), rate limiting (100 req/min default), Redis caching, and circuit breaker logic to auto-pause failing outbound campaigns.

AWSEC2RDSS3RedisPrismaStripe ConnectNode.js

Feb 2023 — Aug 2025

Marketing Intern

Campus Recreational Center

Collaborated directly with the Assistant Director of Marketing at NKU Campus Recreation to plan and execute social events, prospect and secure corporate sponsorships, and support marketing campaigns that contributed to a 26–32% increase in overall sales.

Jan 2023 — May 2023

Undergraduate Researcher

NKU Mechatronics Research Lab

Developed a hybrid brain-computer interface using OpenBCI EEG hardware and a CNN-RNN deep learning pipeline to classify motor-imagery signals and control a robotic arm via Raspberry Pi-driven linear actuators in real time.

OpenBCIPythonCNN-RNNRaspberry Pi

Skills

frameworks

Next.jsReactFastAPIFlaskNode.jsExpressTailwind CSSCapacitorLangChain

languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSQLSolidityCC++JavaHTML/CSSBash

libraries

PrismaZustandReact QueryZodPusherPandasNumPyPyTorchWeb3.jsRechartsReact PDF

tools

PostgreSQLAWSDockerNginxStripeClerkGitLinuxVercelXcodeRaspberry Pi

Currently Available

Let’s work together

Looking for full-time software engineering roles. Open to interesting freelance projects too.

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