Life Balance
A planner that organises goals and initiatives around long-term values instead of a to-do list. Spring Boot service over Postgres, containerised, with tests and coverage running on every push.
Software engineer,
Milwaukee.
Four years building web applications and the systems behind them — AI-driven advertising, CRM and chatbot platforms, REST APIs and event-driven services. Python, TypeScript, Java.
What I do
I build the parts of a product that have to keep working — the API, the data model, the job that runs at 3 a.m. Most of my work is backend and platform: modular and event-driven architectures, REST services, and getting legacy systems onto them without the rewrite everyone regrets.
Before software I trained as a mechanical engineer and worked as a project manager, which turns out to be a slower way of learning the same lesson: the interesting problem is never the one in the ticket.
PythonTypeScriptJavaFastAPIDjangoSpring BootReactAngularPostgreSQLMongoDBDocker
Selected work
Crazy Fingers
A typing trainer for getting comfortable with a new keyboard — real text, live accuracy, no account and no ceremony. Runs entirely in the browser.
Nanolink
A URL shortener split the way it would be split in production: a FastAPI service that owns writes, a Fastify service that does nothing but redirect fast, MongoDB between them.
Contact
Open to conversations about backend and platform work.