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Solutions Architect
National Insurance Producer RegistryKansas City, MOSep 2023 — Mar 2026
Led modernization of a legacy Java/JSP application suite into a modern React + TypeScript platform backed by Java APIs.
Key impact:
- Architected a React component platform used across multiple applications, standardizing UI patterns and significantly reducing frontend implementation time.
- Built a Kubernetes-based CI/CD platform (GitLab + Helm + EKS) supporting dynamic preview environments and reducing build times from 15 minutes to 8 minutes.
- Designed a dynamic form platform using JSONLogic to centralize business rules and validation across frontend and backend licensing systems.
- Introduced state-machine driven workflow architecture using XState, enabling automatic generation of diagrams used by product and engineering teams.
- Implemented a type-safe API development platform using Zod, Zodios, and zod-fixture, enabling frontend teams to develop independently from backend services.
- Established engineering office hours and architecture mentorship, accelerating adoption of the new frontend platform across teams.
Software Engineer
TripleBlindKansas City, MOMar 2021 — Jan 2023
Modernized a React-based application platform and established frontend architecture standards.
Key impact:
- Migrated the build system from Create React App → Vite, improving developer feedback cycles and increasing HMR performance by ~2×.
- Implemented multi-stage Docker builds, reducing production container size by ~66%.
- Established frontend architecture standards using MUI, Redux, and React Hook Form.
- Upgraded the application to React 17 and introduced error boundaries and Suspense, improving application stability.
- Partnered with design and product teams to define UX patterns and improve development workflows.
Marketing Automation Strategist
Excelerate DigitalKansas City, MOJan 2016 — Mar 2021
Designed distributed automation systems that transformed incoming marketing leads into revenue-generating pipelines across internal and third-party platforms.
Key impact:
- Built microservice-based automation workflows integrating multiple SaaS platforms across the marketing and revenue pipeline.
- Implemented job queue and messaging systems to coordinate asynchronous processing across services.
- Defined API integration contracts across internal and third-party systems to enable end-to-end automation.
- Partnered with analytics and data engineering teams to align automation pipelines with downstream reporting systems.