Firstleaf
Lead Engineer, then Engineering Manager · 2019–2026
Subscription wine e-commerce. I owned the customer-facing Gatsby/React storefront on AWS — refactoring it for performance against real user-flow data, building the shared component library, and cutting release friction in CI. Later I built the SEO platform on top of a 1.5M-wine reference database, reconciling it against a ~10,000-wine internal Postgres catalog where a wrong attribute means the wrong bottle in someone's box.
react · gatsby · node · ruby/rails · postgres · aws · ai · amplitude · datadog
Read the case study →firstleaf.com
FNTECH conference platform
Lead Software Engineer at Tipit · 2014–present
An open-source, microservices platform — 31 public repos — that runs the full lifecycle of a conference: venue and room setup, call for presentations, track-chair selection, schedule, registration and ticketing, badges and signage, a sponsor-services marketplace, meeting-room booking, emails, on-site check-in with badge printing, mobile apps for lead scanning and access control, a native attendee app, and the event site itself, with live streaming and chat. I built the frontend: the back-office React app organizers live in all day — dense tables, deep forms, long-running approval workflows — most of the apps around it, and the reporting API.
react · redux · gatsby · python/django · graphql · php · postgres · docker
Read the case study →summit-admincall-for-presentationssummit-reports-api