Experience

Professional Experience

Career Break & Independent Product Development

Full-Time Parent / Independent Developer

April 2025 - Present

Taking a career break for full-time parenting while independently building SquaddUp, an activity companion app released on iOS and Android.

  • Published SquaddUp on the App Store and Google Play, with map-based activity discovery, group chat, trust scores, recurring events, and safety controls.
  • Built its cross-platform mobile client and supporting product stack with Expo React Native, Elysia and Bun, PostgreSQL and PostGIS, Stripe, and Terraform.
Expo React NativeElysia + BunPostgreSQL + PostGISPrismaStripeTerraform

Asurion

Nashville, TN (Remote)

Software Engineer 3

December 2021 - April 2025

Billing platform engineering across point-of-sale terminals, web APIs, vendor integrations, and PCI compliance.

  • Owned billing-platform transaction paths across point-of-sale (POS) terminals and web APIs processing $2 billion in annual payment volume, achieving PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance.
  • Built Adyen and Ingenico/Worldline payment integrations supporting one-time and subscription billing across 1,000+ retail stores in LATAM, EU, and APAC.
  • Designed reusable payment-integration abstractions that simplified integration for internal teams and external clients.
  • Engineered the stack with TypeScript, React, Node.js, and MySQL, deployed via Docker on AWS.
TypeScriptReactNode.jsMySQLAWSDockerAdyenIngenico/WorldlinePCI-DSS

7Factor Software

Atlanta, GA (Remote)

Client: Aveanna

Staff Software Engineer

February 2020 - September 2021

Consulting role focused on healthcare system modernization, vendor integrations, and cloud migration.

  • Led healthcare-system modernization and cloud migration as lead consultant, remediating and extending legacy C# and PHP applications serving 26,000 nurses and caregivers.
  • Containerized delivery with Docker and built continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to AWS (Concourse, Terraform), improving release quality and deployment speed.
  • Delivered 2 internal Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) integrations meeting state and federal nursing-visit compliance mandates.
  • Re-architected a local-store API model into centralized AWS cloud infrastructure, enabling scalable access across sites.
C#.NETTypeScriptNode.jsReactReact NativeMySQLAWSDockerTerraform

myMatrixx

Tampa, FL (Remote)

Software Engineer 2

March 2017 - February 2020

Full-stack modernization of a legacy healthcare portal with React and Spring-based REST services.

  • Drove full-stack modernization of a legacy healthcare portal serving 1,000+ users, replacing outdated workflows with a React frontend and Spring 5 RESTful services.
  • Implemented IdP-initiated single sign-on (SSO) using OAuth tokens and JWTs for secure external authentication.
  • Upgraded backend microservices from Spring Boot 1.5 to 2.1 and established application logging and monitoring via New Relic.
  • Championed Test-Driven Development (TDD) using Enzyme within an Agile sprint environment.
JavaSpring BootReactTypeScriptMySQLDockerOAuthJWTSSONew Relic

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Tampa, FL & New York, NY

Application Developer

June 2013 - December 2015

Developed COBOL mainframe and client-server applications for the Global Foreign Exchange group while driving internal banking-security initiatives.

COBOLJavaPythonBash

Core Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • C#
  • Java
  • Python

Backend & APIs

  • Node.js
  • .NET
  • Spring Boot
  • Elysia
  • Bun
  • REST APIs

Frontend & Mobile

  • React
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • React Router
  • Tailwind CSS

Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • PostGIS
  • Prisma
  • MySQL

Cloud & Delivery

  • AWS
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • Linux

Payments & Identity

  • PCI-DSS
  • Adyen
  • Ingenico/Worldline
  • Stripe Identity
  • OAuth
  • JWT
  • SSO

Projects

Selected Builds

SquaddUp

An iOS and Android app for discovering, hosting, and joining activities, with map search, group chat, trust scores, recurring events, and age verification for 18+ activities.

Read case study: SquaddUp
  • Stripe-backed government-ID verification for age-restricted activities.
Expo React NativeElysia + BunPostgreSQL + PostGISPrismaStripeTerraform

ChromaLens

Focused project for organizing a cosplay contact-lens collection in a mobile workflow.

Read case study: ChromaLens
React NativeExpo

Education

Academic Foundation

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Systems & Architecture / Media Specializations)

3.46 GPA - Higher Honors

August 2011 - December 2014

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