// 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)

Jun 2023 — Present

Lead feature work across several US client products: an AI-powered chat app, a high-traffic events & ticketing platform, and an internal operations tool.

AI chat appEvents & ticketingOps platform
  • 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.
RailsReactVueTurbo/StimulusPostgreSQL

Software Engineer

Nightout · Contract · Remote

Feb 2025 — Oct 2025

Backend and search work for an events discovery & ticketing platform.

TicketingDiscovery
  • 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.
RailsSearchDockerPostgreSQL

Founder & Lead Engineer

Inldevs — Zest · Startup

2023 — 2025

Founded Inldevs and built Zest, an HR & business-operations SaaS, from zero over ~20 months.

Payroll & financePeople opsProject analytics
  • 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.
RailsPostgreSQLSidekiqCI/CD

Ruby on Rails Developer

Danphe Software Labs · Full-time

Apr 2022 — Aug 2023

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.
RailsPostgreSQLRedisSidekiq

Software Engineer

CloudChomp, Inc. · Full-time

Feb 2021 — Apr 2022

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.
RubyPythonAngularMicroservices

React Developer

AppDiscovery Lab · Full-time

Mar 2020 — Feb 2021

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.
ReactReduxJavaScriptWebSocket