Players see live prices, alerts, and profit calculators. Underneath is a real business: a NestJS and Postgres backend built for time-series price data, paid subscriptions through Stripe, OAuth sign-in, rate limiting, and Sentry monitoring on both ends. One person designs, builds, and operates all of it.
Eight years of shipping software that pays for itself.
Every role here has the same shape: embed with the people who own a problem, learn the domain fast, and own the fix end to end. That is the forward deployed engineer’s job description, and I was doing it before the title existed.
I’m also an AI-native engineer. Agentic coding tools run through my daily workflow: I plan with them, delegate implementation to them, and review everything they produce before it ships. That leverage is a big part of how one person designs, builds, and operates all of OSRS Exchange.
2022 · Present
Senior Software Engineer
M3 USA · Promoted from Software Engineer in 2024
I build the interactive products M3 sells into the healthcare market, and the Turborepo platform they run on, owning features from architecture through CI/CD.
▲High six figures in deals unlocked by an interactive chat product I spearheaded
▲Endless puzzles from an AI generation pipeline I built for Medical Matchup, a Connections-style quiz game
▲10x serverless cost reduction from a new caching strategy
The original forward deployed role. I sat inside the college, found the department workflows that hurt, and shipped full-stack fixes: an inventory system built around barcode scanners, a modernized class schedule, advisor workload balancing, and a student ID migration across dozens of databases.
JavaScript · PHP · ColdFusion · SQL Server · Red Hat Linux · Nginx
2018 · 2019
Student Web Developer
Central Washington University
Developed and maintained cwu.edu on an Agile Scrum team. I also ran weekly workshops that trained and certified departmental content managers: half the job was building the site, the other half was teaching people to run their corner of it.
JavaScript · Drupal · HTML · CSS
2016 · 2017
IT Help Desk Specialist
Everett Community College
First line of IT support for students, staff, and faculty. Where the IT background started: listen first, diagnose carefully, and fix it without an escalation.
Education
BS, Web Development & Database Administration · Central Washington University
AS, Information Technology · Everett Community College
Traders make split-second decisions; the interface can’t be the bottleneck. I obsess over speed, hierarchy, and the details users feel but never notice.
Full-stack, end to end
02
From schema design to pixel polish: React and Next.js frontends, NestJS APIs, Postgres data layers. One owner, no handoffs.
Runs in production
03
Self-hosting enthusiast with an IT background. Docker images, CI pipelines, Sentry on both ends. I ship it, monitor it, and keep it up.
▲04 · About
I’m a software engineer in Seattle with an IT background and an optimizer’s brain.
I run a homelab, self-host what I can, and believe the best products come from engineers who sweat both the database and the drop shadow. Currently building OSRS Exchange.
Location
Seattle, WA
Background
IT, then full-stack software
Off hours
Homelab, self-hosting, optimizing
✕ ◯ · intermission
Tic Tac Toe, from the pre-AI era.
Every line of game logic, styling, and animation crafted by hand. What a concept these days. The board grows past 3×3, and the whole thing installs as a PWA.
OSRS Exchange
