Portfolio

A community platform where developers rate and review GitHub repositories and open source projects. AI-assisted summaries surface the strengths and weaknesses reviewers keep coming back to, and category-based scoring makes projects easy to compare.

Results

• 64K+ repositories reviewed
• 4,000+ users in the first week
• 99.999% uptime

Highlights

• Built the full stack from inception as the sole developer
• AI-generated review summaries alongside community-contributed reviews
• Category-based scoring for every project
• GitHub OAuth sign-in and REST APIs

Technologies

• Node.js
• Python
• Vue.js
• REST APIs
• GitHub OAuth
• OpenAI

Hands-on AI strategy and engineering for Culture Cloud, O.C. Tanner's employee recognition platform, including the Culture Cloud Leadership Coach from inception to launch.

Results

• AI costs cut by over 90%
• About $1M saved on AI model and infrastructure costs
• 14M customer engagements improved

Highlights

• Designed and implemented AI agents and intelligent workflows
• Architected agentic RAG pipelines combining structured and unstructured data for context-aware assistance, document intelligence, explainability and compliance
• Optimized model selection, prompt engineering, evaluation and routing to cut cost and improve reliability
• Embedded human-in-the-loop controls so AI features were production-grade and trusted
• Partnered with product, architecture, infrastructure, data and executive stakeholders to define high-impact use cases

Technologies

• Python
• Java
• AWS
• AgentCore
• LangChain
• LangGraph
• Azure
• Docker

AI-powered attendants that answer phone calls, SMS and web chat for overloaded call centers and businesses, starting with property management and rentals. As CTO, made the technology decisions and served as principal engineer.

Highlights

• Modular architecture for voice, SMS and web chat on one platform, with voice AI that turns spoken requests into actionable data
• Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over each customer's business data
• Skills engine: customer-defined JavaScript functions, sandboxed and called by the AI as tools mid-conversation to reach a customer's own systems. Configurable per company or location, testable in the admin UI, and logged
• Production hardening: caller ID fed straight into the conversation, verified caller-name capture, and skills that require a phone number before they run
• Helped define the product roadmap

Technologies

• C#
• ASP.NET
• EF Core
• SQL Server
• Vue.js
• OpenAI
• Twilio
• Azure
• Google Cloud Translate

Sole developer of the platform that runs a multi-state cremation provider's case workflow for families, office staff, drivers and crematory operators in Salt Lake City, Denver, Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston, plus a pet cremation location.

Results

• 75% business growth driven by automation and accuracy gains
• 1,000+ cases handled every month
• 5 locations across Utah, Colorado and Texas

Highlights

• AI verification: GPT-4o vision reads the names on ID tags and metal crematory tags and scores them against the case record. OCR plus GPT checks draft death certificates and warns staff about mismatches
• Chain of custody: real-time two-reviewer cremation sign-off, and a chain-of-custody PDF that gains a page at every hand-off from cooler to crematory to family
• Family self-service: SMS one-time-code sign-in, online authorizations, death certificate approval, payments and case status, with automated email and SMS reminders
• Payments: Square payments and autopay plans, credit prequalification, and refunds reconciled against Square
• Operations: driver pickup routes, cooler temperature and facility logs, inventory, urn audits and staff dashboards
• Integrations: Monday.com sync, JotForm, inbound email that files documents to cases, and scheduled background jobs, with customer data encrypted at rest

Technologies

• C#
• .NET 8
• SQL Server
• EF Core
• Vue.js
• SignalR
• OpenAI GPT-4o
• Tesseract OCR
• Twilio
• SendGrid
• Square
• GitHub Actions

A multi-tenant church management SaaS that helps churches engage people, fund vision and manage the organization. Took over technical leadership from the retiring founder. TouchPoint was acquired by Cass Information Systems in 2022.

Results

• 90% fewer deployment errors with CI/CD
• 40% faster feature releases
• User base doubled organically

Highlights

• Rebuilt the development team from the ground up into a global team of 25 developers, QA and product contributors
• Modernized the multi-tenant suite for multi-cloud (Azure and AWS) and charted a path from the legacy monolith to a serverless architecture
• Streamlined customer onboarding: database ingest, custom domains and custom mobile apps
• Worked with customers from pre-sales through onboarding and ran customer-led feature feedback sessions
• Returned in 2023 to rebuild the finance management interface on a revamped legacy data model, from low-level SQL to a responsive modern UI, plus a check scanning and remote deposit capture system in Java

Technologies

• C#
• ASP.NET MVC
• .NET Core
• Vue.js
• SQL Server
• Azure
• AWS
• Android
• iOS
• TeamCity

New feature development and customer issue fixes for the American Airlines Android app.

Highlights

• Built features including boarding passes, Grab integration, same-day flight change, in-flight media and basic economy restrictions
• Resolved key customer-reported issues and bugs, with a reputation on the team for fast troubleshooting
• Coordinated with American's web, kiosk and microservices teams

Technologies

• Android
• Java
• Kotlin

Hyper-local mobile marketing for small and midsize businesses: Bluetooth beacons, geofencing, text messaging and automated loyalty programs.

Results

• Concept to MVP in 6 months
• Full-featured platform in 12 months

Highlights

• Built the full-stack, multi-tenant product: back end, website, back office, and native iOS and Android apps
• Set product direction and contributed to go-to-market strategy

Technologies

• C#
• ASP.NET MVC
• SQL Server
• Azure
• AWS
• Java
• Android
• Objective-C
• iOS
• PHP
• TeamCity

In 2011 a startup set out to disrupt a 25-year-old status quo in construction scheduling software, where only Microsoft and Oracle were serious contenders. Autodesk acquired the product, which became BIM 360 Scheduling.

Results

• $50M company valuation in 2 years
• Team of 12 in a program of 25+
• $2M program budget

Highlights

• Built the product's crown jewel: a browser-based, interactive Gantt chart that produced wall-size, large-format prints. First built in Flash for older browsers, then rewritten in Angular.js
• The Gantt chart was the front end to a rich API and critical path method (CPM) scheduling engine
• After the acquisition, guided the architectural transition into Autodesk's ecosystem, wrote the migration roadmap, and introduced continuous integration and 1–2 week sprints

Technologies

• Angular.js
• JavaScript
• Flash
• C#
• ASP.NET
• SQL Server
• REST APIs

Back end development of APIs for collecting social media metrics using a serverless architecture running on AWS Lambda functions written in Python

Technologies

• Python
• AWS Lambda
• Serverless
• REST APIs

A video streaming and podcasting platform for churches, with a website, Android and iOS apps and a back office admin. Truthcasting was acquired by ACS Technologies in 2021.

Highlights

• Primary architect for all tiers of the platform
• Redesigned and re-architected the website and administrative functions
• Managed QA and worked with external QA teams to load test the application

Technologies

• C#
• ASP.NET
• SQL Server
• Flex
• Wowza
• WebORB
• Android
• iOS

Implemented integrations for the HTML/AJAX front-end using a proprietary platform for version 1 of this product - acquired by VelocityEHS in 2019

Technologies

• HTML
• JavaScript
• AJAX

Azure web app and mobile web services development in ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and SQL Server

Technologies

• C#
• ASP.NET MVC
• Web API
• SQL Server
• Azure

Web app, Android app and back end development in Django/Python

Technologies

• Python
• Django
• Android