Summary
Senior full-stack engineer with more than a decade in production. At Airbnb, shipped Identity Verification and fraud tooling, ran site reliability, and founded the Portland product team. Led engineering at art-market analytics company Arthena for four and a half years, from data pipeline to launched product. Today builds production AI-agent tooling (MCP servers, LLM tool-calling) in TypeScript and Python, with an ABYC-certified systems mindset: redundancy, failure modes, reliability.
Work Experience
Founder and Software Engineer
- Design, build, and operate production MCP servers and AI-agent tooling in TypeScript and Python that connect LLMs to real APIs and local systems.
- Applied LLM tooling to ABYC industry standards, putting dense technical standards to work in live refit projects.
- Consult on marine electrical and electronics refits: power, data, redundancy, and failure-mode analysis.
Software Engineer
- Built wildfire-defense tools used by homeowners, contractors, and drone pilots.
- Integrated the DroneDeploy API to bring aerial mapping into product workflows.
Lead Software Engineer
- Led engineering on Arthena’s core product through launch.
- Built and automated the art-market data ingestion pipeline that powered the product.
- Orchestrated deployment with Docker and Kubernetes on Google Cloud.
- Designed and shipped a React and Apollo GraphQL market-analysis application.
- Instituted sprint-based development and simplified the engineering interview process.
Senior Software Engineer
- Founded Airbnb’s Portland-based product team.
- Launched and maintained a chat support channel across multiple stakeholder teams.
- Reduced customer contact rate by building self-service user tools.
Software Engineer
- Shipped Identity Verification.
- Developed and deployed fraud-investigation tools for the operations team.
- Maintained site reliability as an infrastructure (SysOps) engineer on MySQL and AWS.
Rotational Program Associate
- Prototyped payment products for the New Business Initiatives group and conducted international user research.