Making things. Making things better — full-stack systems, AI-assisted workflows, and apps meant for real people.
I’m a full-stack software engineer with more than two decades of experience building web applications, beginning in the early days of the commercial web in the Washington, DC area. My background spans frontend development, backend services, databases, and the practical engineering required to design, build, and maintain complete software systems.
While spending several years living abroad—including twelve years in Berlin—I remained deeply engaged with software through independent projects. Those experiences reinforced a preference for thoughtful, mission-driven engineering and building products that solve real problems.
Today I'm based in the Washington, DC area, focused on modern full-stack development using React, TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and AI-powered application architectures. Recent work has centered on semantic search, structured LLM pipelines, workflow automation, and systems that help people make better decisions by combining traditional software engineering with practical applications of AI.
Multi-stage LLM pipeline · FastAPI + React
Resume and search constraints become a structured aptitude profile grounded in O*NET occupation data, then verified job openings that fit — Hugging Face agents with JSON Schema–validated outputs, orchestrated by FastAPI, surfaced in a Vite + React MVP.
Doc-grounded RAG · FastAPI + Streamlit
Sources crawled and chunked into PostgreSQL/pgvector, embeddings via OpenAI, answers with LangChain using retrieved context plus trimmed chat history — built to iterate on ingestion, retrieval, and prompts.
Upload scanning · activist.org · ClamAV
Image uploads checked for malware before they enter the main application flow — FastAPI + ClamAV, packaged in Docker, with quarantine and backend event notification.
Case management · ColdFusion 2025 + ColdBox
Case management for agencies delivering public services — structured workflows, secure handling of sensitive data, and modern ColdFusion + ColdBox architecture for high-trust environments.
Open source · Vue 3 + Django + PostgreSQL · Contributor
Platform connecting activists with organizations, campaigns, and causes — frontend and backend contributions for usability, performance, and maintainability on a Vue / Django / PostgreSQL stack in a mission-driven product.
APIs · tooling · climate UI
Open to contract, freelance, and full-time work — remote or hybrid from the DC Metro area. U.S. citizen · Public Trust eligible.