Resume

Summary

Senior Software Engineer and bilingual English/Spanish technologist with more than 10 years building production software and 17+ years across software engineering, automation, quality, and technical leadership. Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with current experience in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Vue/Nuxt, React/Next.js, APIs, data-intensive applications, performance optimization, and AI-assisted engineering. Delivered measurable results including improving complex data visualizations by more than 30%, reducing targeted API latency from more than 2 seconds to 40 milliseconds, and building services supporting more than $150k in daily transactions. Based in the Oklahoma City metro and open to remote roles across the US.

Current Personal Projects

CareerForge

Product owner, architect, and senior full-stack engineer. Personal project, AI-assisted. Public repository - this site is its portfolio.

Designed and built a local-first career-development platform that turns job postings into evidence-cited fit analysis, honest gap classification, interview preparation, skill-development plans, resume workflows, and application gameplans.
Architected a TypeScript modular monolith using Nuxt, Vue 3, Fastify, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Zod, and pnpm workspaces, with enforced boundaries between deterministic scoring, LLM integration, persistence, authenticated platform workflows, and the public portfolio.
Created privacy and provenance controls that keep real career data local while public tests, screenshots, and demonstrations use a fictional profile.
Built automated quality controls with Vitest, PostgreSQL-backed integration tests, Playwright, GitHub Actions, Lighthouse budgets, axe-core accessibility checks, link validation, security scanning, and adversarial prompt-injection testing.
Directed work through a bounded two-seat agentic workflow in which one agent implemented changes, a separate read-only agent independently reviewed them, and I retained responsibility for architecture, acceptance criteria, evidence, and every merge.

Binnie

Product owner, architect, full-stack engineer, and system operator. Personal project, AI-assisted. Private repository.

Built a phone-first household inventory platform using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Prisma, SQLite, and Tailwind CSS.
Implemented QR and barcode scanning, OCR, image preprocessing, semantic search, local embeddings, and local vision-assisted identification with reviewable, non-destructive enrichment.
Added Progressive Web App installation, offline behavior, mobile share intake, secure-origin camera workflows, and responsive light and dark modes.
Deployed and operated the application as a private-LAN service with local HTTPS, separate development/test/production databases, controlled migrations, nightly backups, restore procedures, and a GPU-backed host vision service.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Heartland Payment Systems (2021 - 2025)

Helped lead the migration of a data-intensive analytics platform from Vue 2 to Vue 3 with Pinia and Vite, improving the performance of complex sales-data visualizations by more than 30%.
Designed and implemented Redis caching for frequently requested Snowflake-backed endpoints, reducing targeted response latency from more than 2 seconds to 40 milliseconds while preserving data freshness.
Architected and developed major portions of a full-stack pricing application and rules engine used to evaluate repricing scenarios across millions of rows of portfolio data.
Built reusable dashboards, tables, charts, navigation, loading states, notifications, role-aware experiences, and secure manager workflows across Vue, Node.js, and Snowflake-backed systems.
Contributed to CI/CD, Terraform infrastructure changes, feature-flagged releases, logging, monitoring, rate limiting, authentication, and production troubleshooting in a PCI DSS-regulated environment.
Added automated tests for major dashboard routes and shared application behavior, improving release confidence during incremental modernization.

Application Developer, Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores (2018 - 2021)

Built and maintained Node.js APIs for the Love's mobile application using test-driven development and Agile delivery practices.
Developed Kafka producers and consumers for asynchronous communication with internal and third-party queue-management, retail POS, and payment-processing systems.
Architected and implemented backend functionality for the Showers experience, which processed more than $150k in daily transactions.
Built Firebase push-notification capabilities that produced a measurable increase in mobile-user engagement.

Automation Software Engineer, Nintendo of America (2008 - 2018)

Developed Python and OpenCV automation tools for repeatable game and localization testing, reducing manual QA effort and operating costs by approximately $161k per quarter.
Applied computer vision to detect and evaluate visual states that previously required repetitive manual inspection, improving regression-test repeatability.
Progressed from Localization QA Tester into automation engineering and project-leadership responsibilities, leading technical direction for cross-functional projects and managing teams of up to 40 people.

Technical Skills

Languages and Runtime: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Python
Frontend: Vue 3, Nuxt, React, Next.js, Pinia, Tailwind CSS, Progressive Web Apps, responsive and mobile-first design
Backend and APIs: Fastify, Express.js, REST APIs, OpenAPI, Zod, session authentication
Databases and Data: PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Prisma, SQLite, Snowflake, Redis, relational and domain modeling
Messaging and Integrations: Kafka (pub/sub event streaming, fault-tolerant messaging), Firebase, third-party system integrations
Cloud and DevOps: Azure DevOps, Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, local HTTPS, backup and restore
Testing and Quality: Vitest, Playwright, Jest, Mocha, Chai, Test-Driven Development, integration testing, end-to-end testing, accessibility testing, Lighthouse, axe-core
AI and Computer Vision: LLM application integration, agentic development workflows, prompt engineering, prompt-injection defense, semantic search, local embeddings, OCR, image processing, OpenCV
Engineering Practices: System architecture, modular monoliths, performance optimization, caching, observability, production troubleshooting, code review, ADRs, Agile, Scrum, mentoring, technical leadership