Senior Full-Stack Engineer · Servant
2025/02–2025/09
Shipped EMA onboarding flow on NestJS + Next.js + Prisma + React Query with AWS-hosted services; owned the production migration from the legacy path with documentation and runbooks.
I turn hard business problems into systems teams can trust.
I'm a hands-on software and application architect with 28 years of experience across enterprise applications, web, mobile, integrations, cloud-hosted delivery, and applied AI. I bring principal-level engineering to ambiguous problems while staying close enough to the code to make the architecture real.
How I work
Need a clear technical direction
Architecture Clarity Workshop
A focused working session for teams facing a hard architecture or delivery decision. We turn business goals, constraints, and risks into a practical technical direction.
$750
Written decision summary · tradeoffs · prioritized next steps
Need an independent system review
Architecture & Production-Readiness Review
An evidence-based review of system boundaries, delivery risk, security, operability, and recovery. Findings distinguish facts from assumptions and point to concrete next steps.
Starting at $5,000
Cited findings · risk priorities · remediation roadmap · executive readout
Need ongoing architecture leadership
Fractional Software Architect
Ongoing architecture leadership for teams that need discovery, system design, delivery guidance, mentoring, and hands-on technical support without adding a full-time role.
Starting at $150/hour · 20-hour monthly minimum
Architecture decisions · delivery guidance · reviews · hands-on support
Considering consulting support? View the consulting profile (PDF)
Featured projects
In development · Open source
ArchGauge
An open-source architecture and production-readiness review platform designed around cited evidence, reproducible scoring, AI safety controls, and human approval. Follow the decisions and implementation as the system is built.
TypeScript
React
Node.js
PostgreSQL
OpenTelemetry
Archived personal project · Offline
OpenClaw VPS
An archived exploration of managed deployment and operational controls for private AI assistants. It is retained as engineering history, not presented as a live service.
Next.js 16
React 19
Convex
Stripe
Sentry
PostHog
Claude Code
MCP
Indie game · passion project
Fathomless: The Descent
First-person grid-based dungeon crawler in the spirit of Eye of the Beholder. D&D on the surface, cosmic horror underneath.
Rust
SDL3
Experience
28 years translating business needs into web, mobile, cloud, integration, and applied-AI systems — from discovery and architecture through delivery and handoff.
Target roles: Software Architect · Application Architect · selective Principal Engineer
Senior React Native Engineer · Nutrien
2023/09–2024/02
Shipped cross-platform features on the Nutrien mobile app (iOS + Android) used offline-first by field reps in agriculture operations.
Senior Software Engineer · TxMQ
2022/10–2023/06
Led an OpenAI research initiative that prototyped LLM-assisted internal tooling on AngularJS and Ionic client surfaces while delivering production client features.
Senior Mobile Engineer · Verizon
2021/10–2022/11
Shipped the AMC Walking Dead NFT experience: custom blockchain + JS SDK integration inside the Verizon mobile app.
Earlier Experience
2015–2021 Solutions Architect (self-employed, 30+ shipped projects across oil/gas, travel, and enterprise; Key Energy, Warren Equipment, Enertia, OneTravel.com).
Skills
Architecture
Application Architecture
System Design
Domain-Driven Design
API & Integration Design
Modernization & Migration
Application Delivery
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Node.js
NestJS
React Native
Data & Operations
PostgreSQL
AWS-hosted systems
Azure foundations
CI/CD
Observability
Leadership & Applied AI
Technical Discovery
Tradeoff Communication
Mentoring
OpenAI SDK
Human Approval Controls
About
I'm a hands-on software and application architect. Over 28 years, I've worked across enterprise applications, web, mobile, integrations, cloud-hosted delivery, and applied AI. I work directly with teams to understand the real business problem, make architecture tradeoffs visible, deliver software, and leave behind clear decisions and operating guidance. That combination is the principal-level value I bring. I work remotely from Midland, Texas.
Message me
I'll reply within 24 hours.
Want to see the architecture work?
ArchGauge is being built in public as a complete case study. See the current scope, constraints, decisions, and honest limitations.
Follow the ArchGauge case study