I help founder-led companies replace fragile platforms with systems that hold up under real load — then automate the operational weight around them with AI.
The platform is difficult to maintain, slow to evolve, or too expensive to keep changing.
They know AI can help, but need the right solution scoped, built, and actually integrated.
Traction is real. Now the architecture needs to be ready for what's next.
Professional Experience
Own architecture and technical direction for a platform serving 400,000+ lifetime downloads across iOS, Android, and web. Partner directly with founders on product planning, feature prioritization, and solution design, providing the technical estimates that shape the roadmap. Delivered subscription billing, analytics, attribution, and customer engagement systems, plus a business automation platform eliminating manual work across lead qualification, CRM synchronization, and order processing. Own production operations and cloud infrastructure — deployments, monitoring, security, and platform stability — and lead technical planning for new product initiatives. Lead technical interviews, mentor developers through code reviews, and drive engineering process improvements across the team.
Modernized a mature legacy PHP platform's architecture without disrupting existing users, strengthening backend services and REST APIs. Designed, maintained, and expanded integrations with the platform's core astrology calculation engine, powering commercial web and mobile applications. Improved performance, long-term maintainability, and AWS infrastructure through targeted architectural upgrades, and supported ongoing feature delivery while maintaining production stability.
Built the secure backend services that commercial media production workflows ran on, including authentication, reporting, and administration systems used across the business. Modernized application architecture and integrated third-party services into production, collaborating directly with product stakeholders to deliver backend features supporting evolving business requirements.
Re-engineered a legacy real estate platform now supporting 220+ commercial agents with reporting, portals, and administration tools. Took ownership of a mission-critical CRM after multiple prior teams failed to stabilize it, eliminated the technical debt, and restored continuous delivery. Designed and delivered a business automation platform integrating WordPress, Salesforce, payment systems, and CRM workflows — reducing manual work across lead qualification, CRM sync, and order processing. Engineered WordPress business applications including CRM integrations, customer portals, multilingual publishing, and payment processing. Led technical planning and architecture decisions, working directly with founders on engineering estimates and roadmap priorities, while mentoring developers, participating in technical hiring, and improving engineering processes through code reviews.
Enhanced enterprise content management systems used across international marketing teams; developed administration tools and permission management for global operations, collaborating with marketing and business stakeholders to deliver internal tools supporting global content operations.
Understand the business, constraints, and goal.
Design the right solution with scalability built in.
Build with clean code, real testing, fast iteration.
Deploy to production with confidence.
Optimize, automate, evolve as you grow.
Yes. If you need a web developer to build or rebuild a real product — backend, frontend, APIs, cloud infrastructure — that's the core of what I do, end to end.
Yes. If you need an AI developer to integrate OpenAI or another LLM into a real product — automation, workflows, AI-powered features — that's a primary focus, not a side skill.
If your platform is fragile, hard to change, or wasn't built to scale, I design the architecture first so the rebuild doesn't just repeat the same problems.
Most of my work is directly with founders and small product teams, not through layers of enterprise process.
Contract, fractional, or full-time — whatever matches where your product actually is right now.
Currently open to new engagements. Book a call below or send a message.
30 minutes. No pitch deck required — just bring what's broken or what's next.
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