The long run
Senior full-stack software engineer
Ten-plus years of shipping software, mostly C# and ASP.NET behind React and TypeScript. These days I spend as much time as I can diving into the world of AI: planning the work, writing skills, automations and guardrails, and letting the agents work their magic.
The trail so far
- Oct 3, 2026Fastest halfJackass Half, Kellogg, Idaho. 1:44:07.
- Aug 2026 to now
Rosnet
Senior Software Engineer
Exploring the software logistics of the restaurant world.Exploring the software logistics of the restaurant world.
- Jul 18, 2026Fifty running eventsShoreline Half, Hamlin, New York.
- Oct 26, 2024First ultraKansas Rails-to-Trails 50K, Ottawa, Kansas.
- Nov 20, 2022First marathonGobbler Grind Marathon, Overland Park, Kansas.
- Oct 15, 2022First half marathonKC Half Marathon, Kansas City, Missouri.
- Mar 24, 2022First house
- Feb 2022 to Aug 2026
CloudSaver
Senior Software Engineer
Helping companies find out where their cloud money went, and creating a new product to measure AI usage beyond tokens.Helping companies find out where their cloud money went, and creating a new product to measure AI usage beyond tokens.
- Architected multi-repo integrations to decouple core services, enabling isolated scaling across distributed enterprise AI workflows.
- Engineered secure API connectors for foundational models across AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, and Anthropic, centralizing provider communication.
- Designed and deployed asynchronous License Sync Crons to automate license verification cycles across 5 major AI providers.
- Developed collection pipelines to pull detailed usage metrics from OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock, facilitating real-time cost transparency.
- Pioneered an AI-First Coding methodology using Claude Code’s agentic CLI toolchain to accelerate feature velocity and repository setups.
- Developed cloud cost optimization solutions for AWS and Azure, resulting in 40-55% cost savings through automated rightsizing recommendations.
- Designed real-time resource synchronization using AWS EventBridge alongside an intuitive UI and an RBAC security mechanism.
- Built an automated Migration Acceleration Program tracking tool that minimized client infrastructure management time by 99%.
- Engineered financial data utilities including cost forecasting engines, invoice comparison metrics, and multi-tenant billing tools.
- Constructed a Managed Discount Services suite enabling enterprise customers to maximize Reserved Instances and Savings Plans across multi-cloud.
- Steered cross-functional product alignment by assuming temporary project management responsibilities to guarantee on-time deployments.
Overland Park, Kansas. C#, React, Claude Code, AWS (EventBridge, Bedrock), Azure, GCP, Multi-repo, Microservices, MySQL, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, Mantine, Nivo
- Oct 8, 2021First solo trip
- Apr 25, 2021First five-wicket haulCricket.
- May 2017 to Feb 2022
Intouch Solutions
Software Developer
Websites for pharma and healthcare brands, and an education in how much a stored procedure can take.Websites for pharma and healthcare brands, and an education in how much a stored procedure can take.
- Developed scalable applications with dynamic back-ends using ASP.NET MVC, MS-SQL databases, and robust .NET APIs.
- Designed and optimized complex stored procedures using SQL Server Management Studio to process heavy transactional workloads.
- Engineered a point-based gamified Awards platform that directly increased user sign-ups by 34% and boosted site interactions by 72%.
- Spearheaded vulnerability remediation initiatives, auditing codebases to eliminate security threats and harden multi-tenant applications.
- Utilized Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Git for strict version controlling, release branching, and system documentation.
- Profiled and optimized legacy codebases to significantly increase page-load speeds and boost query execution efficiency.
Overland Park, Kansas. C#, ASP.NET MVC, MS-SQL, Azure, JavaScript, jQuery, TFS, Git
- Dec 19, 2016First car
- Sep 2016 to May 2017
University of Kansas Libraries
Full Stack Web Developer
Keeping the library’s internal tools alive, one PHP migration at a time.Keeping the library’s internal tools alive, one PHP migration at a time.
- Successfully migrated the KU Libraries Purchase on Demand system from legacy PHP to a modern, structured PHP Symfony3 framework.
- Developed a full-stack Java Spring Boot application integrated with Thymeleaf templating and a PostgreSQL database layer.
- Maintained, patched, and enhanced core Java and PHP web utilities across the KU Libraries production environment.
- Managed content ecosystems and specialized plugin development utilizing Drupal 7/8 and Omeka 2.5 CMS frameworks.
Lawrence, Kansas. Java, Spring Boot, PHP Symfony, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Git, JIRA
- 2015 to 2016
Student years
Student developer and intern
A student developer gig moving an old Access database to MySQL, and a summer at Intouch dragging a production site from WebForms to MVC.A student developer gig moving an old Access database to MySQL, and a summer at Intouch dragging a production site from WebForms to MVC.
- Student Developer, University of Kansas (Sep 2015 to Jun 2016): developed and maintained foundational components for the internal KU-ODST software suite.
- Built and optimized custom data reports from underlying relational database infrastructures.
- Executed an end-to-end database migration, moving legacy MS Access architectures over to a highly available MySQL deployment.
- Application Development Intern, Intouch Solutions (May to Aug 2015): migrated a production website infrastructure from legacy ASP.NET Webforms to the ASP.NET MVC framework.
- Built cross-client responsive email templates using clean HTML/CSS as part of a high-visibility pro-bono initiative.
PHP Symfony, MySQL, MS Access, WAMP, C#, ASP.NET MVC, MS-SQL, TFS, Git, Agile/JIRA
- 2014 to 2016
University of Kansas
MS, Computer Science
The start of life in the US.The start of life in the US.
- 2010 to 2014
KL University, Vijayawada
B.Tech, Computer Science
Where the whole thing started.Where the whole thing started.