// career log
A record of what I've shipped
Six years across client products and my own startup — from React frontends to Rails backends and AI-powered features in production.
Software Engineer
Fetchly Labs · Full-time · Remote (US)
Lead feature work across several US client products: an AI-powered chat app, a high-traffic events & ticketing platform, and an internal operations tool.
- Built AI-infra reliability — session caching, quota accounting, and auto-retry with orphan rollback when model calls hit rate limits.
- Shipped subscription/billing gates, auth hardening (reCAPTCHA, password policies), and real-time group chat UX.
- Moved marketing pages to server-side rendering, lifting SEO and Core Web Vitals on a high-traffic site.
- Delivered internal tooling in Rails with Turbo & Stimulus; frontends in React, Vue, Nuxt and Astro.
Software Engineer
Nightout · Contract · Remote
Backend and search work for an events discovery & ticketing platform.
- Rebuilt event search + reindexing with integration test coverage; fixed events dropping out of results after their start date.
- Added entity positioning and manual ID assignment; synced organizations from a third-party ticketing provider.
- Handled a Ruby upgrade and Docker maintenance across services.
Founder & Lead Engineer
Inldevs — Zest · Startup
Founded Inldevs and built Zest, an HR & business-operations SaaS, from zero over ~20 months.
- Architected multi-domain data models across payroll, finance, people ops and project management.
- Built approval-flow transactions, survey queues, notifications, and project analytics.
- Set up the engineering foundation — roles/permissions, CI with CodeQL, migrations and test standards.
Ruby on Rails Developer
Danphe Software Labs · Full-time
Led development on complex Rails applications and mentored a growing team.
- Architected scalable Rails services and ran comprehensive code reviews.
- Mentored junior developers in Rails conventions and testing.
- Optimized database performance with efficient queries and indexing.
Software Engineer
CloudChomp, Inc. · Full-time
Built microservices for a cloud cost-optimization product.
- Developed services in Ruby and Python with an Angular frontend.
- Implemented cost-optimization business logic and cross-service APIs.
- Added monitoring and tuned service performance.
React Developer
AppDiscovery Lab · Full-time
Built React applications and reusable UI component libraries.
- Developed complex React apps with Redux and the Context API.
- Built responsive interfaces and reusable component libraries.
- Integrated REST APIs and WebSocket real-time features.