Engineering leadership · since 2014
A decade building and leading the systems behind AI commerce, distributed backends, and B2B SaaS.
Head of Engineering
AI-commerce platform for online sellers. I own technical strategy, architecture, and delivery end to end — from infrastructure and storefront integrations to the AI agent layer that lets sellers run their business in natural language. Go + Python on AWS.
Internal product
Turns a raw idea into a live landing page in minutes and measures real demand — so founders get market signal before building anything. Go backend, Rust/Leptos frontend.
Senior Software Engineer
Incentive-compensation platform for fair, transparent bonus and variable-pay programs. Joined at the idea stage and built the full stack to paying enterprise customers — Go/Gin API, React/TypeScript frontend, AWS (ECS, RDS, CDK).
Senior Software Engineer
Subscription e-commerce platform for baby gear. Built backend services in Java and Go and a custom subscription engine on AWS Lambda, integrating Stripe, BigCommerce, Klaviyo, and Segment.
Senior Software Engineer
Built the internal publishing platform behind Chick-fil-A's Menu DNA content system on serverless AWS infrastructure.
Lead Software Engineer
Grew from early engineer to lead over seven years at a leading Amazon-seller SaaS company. Led a six-person team migrating a legacy PHP monolith to Java/Spring microservices, built Stripe billing serving 200,000+ sellers, and owned high-throughput pipelines processing Amazon marketplace data — including Feedback Genius, the company's flagship review engine.
I spent 14 years in the U.S. Army as a Logistics Officer — Captain, deployed to OIF III — then spent the next decade building software. That background probably explains why I like owning systems end to end and am not particularly afraid of things being on fire.
Originally from Georgia, I moved to Castellón de la Plana in early 2024 with my wife. Our son was born here. The weather is absurd by any Midwestern standard, and I'm slowly picking up the language.
Today I'm Head of Engineering at Jinnify, building AI-commerce for online sellers, and I ship internal products under the Rat Labs banner. Backend-heavy by instinct: distributed systems, AI agent architecture, B2B SaaS. Go is my default, Java when the job calls for it, Python and TypeScript when I need them.