Systems engineering, freelance software development, AI automation, and applied statistics.

Proprietary trading firm · Freelance software developer · Chicago & Erie · LinkedIn · Email

I like infrastructure that stays boring in production, automation that removes friction, and AI systems that hold up under real-world constraints.

• Production systems, observability, and change discipline in a low-latency environment
• Internal AI enablement for engineering teams, including shared assistant workflows and knowledge access
• Freelance software development for practical business and automation problems
• AI automation, LLM workflows, and cost-aware applied AI systems
• Cloud and network automation across AWS and OCI with Terraform and Ansible
• Data-backed tooling, applied statistics, and practical ML when a problem is worth modeling

• Internal AI engineering enablement: working on Claude Slack integration with Jira and Confluence so senior engineers can authenticate with their own Claude accounts and operate in a shared workspace tied to tickets and company docs.
• Trading server config analysis: scanning trade-server configurations into Git-backed version control so Claude can analyze drift, misalignment, and operational inconsistencies across environments.
• Expense capture mobile app: shipped a React mobile app now being tested by a for-profit education company. It lets employees capture receipt images, assemble expense submissions, and generate a signed PDF package for handoff. Backend is serverless on AWS with Lambda functions and S3 storage.
• Interactive infrastructure demos: AWS network diagram and EC2 / DB / S3 layout built with SVG/canvas for explanation, not just decoration.
• Small-business web builds: shipped responsive sites for Curtis Smith's Gunsmithing and Smith Automotive.
• Applied AI systems: built LLM-assisted extraction and Q&A workflows where latency, token cost, and noisy source material all matter.
• ABHES Q&A bot: parsed a 225-page regulatory PDF into an 800+ item lookup with GPT-4 plus GPT-3.5 batching in about 15 minutes at sub-$4 cost, replacing a much slower expert-review loop.
• Erie County housing analysis: automated Python ingest, SQL storage, geocoding, and API exposure for 20k+ residential sales records.

• Reliability over theatrics
• Clear automation over manual ceremony
• AI where it improves outcomes, not where it creates noise
• Measurement before optimization
• Practical delivery over resume-driven complexity

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• Infra: AWS, OCI, Terraform, Ansible, Linux, networking, observability
• Application: Python, TypeScript, React, SQL, API design, automation, freelance delivery
• Mobile & serverless: React mobile UI, AWS Lambda, S3-backed document and receipt workflows
• AI: LLM workflows, prompt/system design, structured extraction, cost-aware batch processing, practical automation
• Enterprise enablement: Claude integrations, Slack workflows, Jira/Confluence context, config analysis, Git-backed operational review
• Analysis: R, applied statistics, experiment design, data cleaning, lightweight ML
• Delivery: GitHub Actions, Docker, CI/CD, repo hygiene

AWS	Terraform	Ansible	Docker	Linux
Python	TypeScript	React	Django	JavaScript
HTML5	CSS3	PostgreSQL	MySQL	SQLite
MongoDB	R	Bash	Git	GitHub

• Systems, proprietary trading firm: production systems, reliability work, and internal tooling in a low-latency environment
• Freelance software developer and DevOps: current freelance software development, cloud architecture, mobile/product delivery, serverless automation, AI-assisted tooling, and delivery systems
• Statistical analyst and consultant: applied stats, econometrics, operational analysis, and data product work

• Code Platoon, DevOps and Cloud Engineering, 2024
• Code Platoon, Full Stack Software Engineering, 2023
• Penn State, Applied Statistics Graduate Certificate, 2015
• UC San Diego, B.A. Economics, 2011
• San Diego Mesa College, A.A. Business Education, 2008

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