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Projects & Case Studies

Platform rebuilds, agentic engineering, and products that served millions, from early-stage startups to $1B+ platforms. Open any card for the full case study.

GoodParty.org · Mar 2024 – 2026

GoodParty.org Platform Rebuild

End-to-end architectural rebuild of an open-source platform that gives independent political candidates scalable campaign infrastructure.

TypeScriptNestJSPrismaPostgreSQLZod
// Faster delivery, fewer production incidents, continuous deployments

The company's first fully automated agentic PR review workflow: Claude via AWS Bedrock, with review comments and fix flows run through GitHub Actions.

ClaudeAWS BedrockGitHub ActionsMCPClaude Skills
// Removed the code-review bottleneck for team projects

OpenLoop · Jul 2026 – Present

Multi-Tenant White-Label Platform

Refactored an acquired single-tenant, customer-facing stack into a multi-tenant, white-label platform for clients.

ReactNode.jsTypeScriptRetool
// Full-stack refactor in ~3 months with a team of three

GoodParty.org · 2024 – 2025

90k-Line Next.js → TypeScript Migration

Independently migrated a ~90,000-line Next.js JavaScript codebase to TypeScript in about two months using LLM agents.

Next.jsTypeScriptCursorLLM AgentsTailwind
// ~90k LOC converted in ~2 months, solo

HEAVY.AI (OmniSci / MapD) · Oct 2018 – Apr 2023

Analytics Web Services Layer

Championed and architected a Go web services layer for a big-data visualization platform built on a GPU-accelerated RDBMS.

GoEchoApache ThriftNode.jsKoa
// Laid the foundation for far more robust platform features

Fanatics, Inc. · Sep 2015 – Oct 2017

Universal E-Commerce Platform Rewrite

Helped architect the front end of a complete rewrite of an e-commerce platform generating more than $1B a year, and led a team of 10–12 UI and Node engineers.

ReactReduxGraphQLRelayNode.js
// Fully universal rendering; tuned for 120+ TPS hot-market loads

Captora · Oct 2013 – Sep 2015

Captora Marketing Acceleration Platform

Lead front-end architect of a patented SaaS platform that helps digital marketers drive pipeline growth.

AngularJSNode.jsExpressPhantomJSD3
// Component of US Patent 8,869,019

Lexima.io (contract) · Feb 2021 – Nov 2022

ThemeFlight Shopify App

Lead engineer and architect on a custom embedded Shopify app, taking it through Shopify marketplace certification.

Next.jsAWS LambdaServerlessShopify APIOAuth2
// Passed Shopify marketplace certification

Personal · Open Source · Sep 2026 – Present

Seven-Tree Tuning

Reverse-engineered the encrypted .hcf tune format for a 1996 F-350 7.3L Power Stroke Hydra chip, then built a web tune editor to change shift points and idle speed and save a new, flashable tune.

TypeScriptNext.jsReverse EngineeringAgentic AI
// A proprietary binary format turned into a browser-based editor

Personal · Open Source · Jun 2026

Grounded RAG Notebooks

A NotebookLM-style app: upload documents, chat with grounded RAG answers, and generate studio artifacts such as summaries, mind maps, quizzes, flashcards and reports.

Next.js 16React 19SupabasepgvectorLangGraph
// LangGraph agents with a durable, async artifact pipeline

Personal · Open Source · Jun 2026

Self-Healing Content System

Detects when upstream Google Cloud docs change, traces which GCP certification practice questions are affected, and proposes AI fixes for human review.

Next.jsSupabaseVercel CronVercel AI SDKOpenRouter
// Change detection → provenance impact analysis → AI healing → human review

Personal · Open Source · Jun 2026

CADchat: 3D Model Review

A 3D CAD model viewer with persisted design-review comments, built as a type-safe Turborepo monorepo.

Next.js 16React Three FiberNestJS 11tRPCZod
// End-to-end type safety from Prisma to React Three Fiber via tRPC

Open Source · Jan 2018 – Jun 2018

react-flex-rating

A (semi) full-featured React rating component with half-icon ratings, smart hover states, and easy style overrides.

ReactSASS
// Plays nicely with Material-UI

//Open Source & Pinned Repos

Pinned repositories on GitHub. Each one links to its source and, where deployed, a live demo.

thegoodparty /

gp-api

NestJS API for goodparty.org: the strictly typed backend I architected and led.

thegoodparty /

gp-sdk

TypeScript SDK for the gp-api, giving shared, end-to-end type-safe API contracts.

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//Earlier Work

  • WANdisco.com lead-gen platform

    WANdisco · 2013

    Self-serve CMS cut marketing turnaround from days to minutes; introduced an SDLC; Marketo integration

  • E-commerce / CRM platform

    Stella & Dot · 2011 – 2013

    Zend Framework REST APIs, Magento, Drupal 7, complex caching strategies

  • 49ers.com

    National Football League · 2009

    Refactored CSS and jQuery widget initialization across the NFL team-sites platform

  • Seahawks.com

    National Football League · 2009

    AJAX-driven, content-rich navigation

  • Property Management App

    Personal

    Next.js 14+, NextUI, Tailwind and MongoDB/Mongoose over a RESTful API