About
Senior systems and platform technical lead who turns engineering decisions into measurable business impact, replacing costly proprietary SDKs with vendor-neutral, open-source systems and steering technical direction through leadership transitions, funding contractions, and high-risk vendor integrations. Deep expertise in high-performance geospatial and graph visualization for secure, mission-critical environments.
Experience
2025 — Present Senior Software Engineer · Swoop Technologies
Technical Lead for frontend modernization on a 7-person team delivering real-time decision-making and analysis interfaces for defense-sector customers. Responsible for identifying and mitigating architectural risks during high-stakes vendor integrations and platform migrations.
2020 — 2025 Dev Lead · Optum
Led the frontend lifecycle of a multi-tenant healthcare platform supporting 300+ enterprise tenants. Successfully navigated the full product lifecycle from initial build through scale-out, managing technical direction through a critical funding contraction and leadership transition.
- Azure
- Java
- Spring Boot
- GraphQL
- React
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Express.js
- Storybook
Journal Entries
Scrubbing a Graph Through Time
Building a temporal graph data structure, and why its most useful feature is the part it refuses to do.
- TypeScript
- Data Structures
- Temporal Graph
- Event Sourcing
- Graph Visualization
- Library Design
- API Design
- Open Source
Navigating the Beta - Validation Under Constraint
An analysis of navigating high-stakes technical ambiguity by engineering a vendor-neutral abstraction layer to de-risk a pre-release geospatial engine under a strict 30-day validation window.
- Geospatial Engineering
- Mapbox
- Mapbox Atlas
- MapLibre
- Air-Gapped
- Vendor Validation