My Professional Resume
""We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Software Development Engineer in Test II
Verisk Analytics
Lehi, UT (Hybrid)
Feb 2023 - Present
Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Leading company-wide AI initiative evaluating 20+ LLM tools, creating implementation frameworks that increased team velocity by 40% and saved $3,000/month, while independently developing advanced parallel agent systems for future adoption
- Influenced team adoption of AI-accelerated workflows by demonstrating parallel agent development concepts from personal projects
- Architected C#/.NET API client library (NuGet package) transforming department from UI to API-first testing approach
- Engineered automated solutions using Azure DevOps APIs and serverless patterns, saving 50+ developer hours monthly
- Promoted early to SDET II for demonstrating senior-level contributions and AI innovation leadership
Key Skills:
Full Stack Software Engineer - Independent & Contract
Freelance Development
Salt Lake City, UT
Jan 2018 - Present
Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Delivered 15+ production applications contributing to $1M+ in client revenue using my parallel agent development methodology
- Built personal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system with Pinecone vector database, indexing 50+ personal documents to create an intelligent AI assistant with context-aware, long-term memory
- Pioneered MCP server implementations before widespread adoption, creating practical agentic AI applications
- Developed AI-driven text adventure platform using React/TypeScript with GPT-4o integration for dynamic narrative generation
- Built NutriSimple, a calorie and macro nutrient tracking PWA with Vue.js/Python stack achieving organic user growth and devoted user base
Key Skills:
Full Stack Software Engineer - Contract
Nine Design + Web
Salt Lake City, UT (Remote)
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Architected enterprise social platform using Laravel 8/PHP with real-time features and scalable MySQL schema design
- Built authentication systems, notification services, and RESTful APIs supporting activity feeds
Key Skills:
Full Stack Web Developer
Maiden Voyage Software
Ogden, UT
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Engineered SaaS CRM features using Laravel/PHP, including API endpoints and background job processing
- Achieved 3x performance improvement through database query optimization
- Built React component library with Storybook for new client application
Key Skills:
Research Associate and Automation Specialist
Scintillant Bioscience
Murray, UT
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
- Brought scientific rigor to software development through hypothesis-driven design, testing, and experimentation
- Automated data workflows using Python/Pandas, reducing 30+ minute processes to sub-second execution
Key Skills:
Technical Skills & Systems Design
AI & LLM Technologies
Languages
Frameworks & Libraries
Systems Design
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Weber State University | Ogden, UT
January 2023
Specializations: Web Development, Game Development
GPA: 4.0 | With Honors
Bachelor of Science in Biology, Philosophy
Utah Valley University | Orem, UT
May 2018
GPA: 3.5 | Honors Program Graduate
Key Achievements & Leadership
AI Innovation Leader
Spearheading department-wide AI adoption with frameworks modeled across teams
Full Stack Delivery
Shipped production Laravel applications, React SPAs, and Python APIs
Technical Transformation
Achieving 90% faster feature delivery through AI tool mastery
Architecture Impact
Created backend libraries and APIs adopted company-wide
Rapid Learning
Consistently delivering senior-level work, earning fast-track promotion
Philosophy & Approach
Software exists to serve people. That's my north star.
I practice compound engineering: building tools that create tools, automating the automators, designing systems that multiply productivity exponentially. This philosophy led me to architect department-wide libraries at Verisk and create frameworks that transformed how entire teams work. When you solve problems at the meta level, impact compounds.
AI isn't just another tool in my toolkit. It's a force multiplier that fundamentally changes what's possible. I ship in hours what used to take weeks because I've learned to think with AI, not just use it. LLMs are collaborators in a new form of software evolution. While others debate AI's role, I'm already building at the frontier with MCP servers, agentic systems, and production applications that showcase what human-AI collaboration can achieve.
But speed without purpose is meaningless. Every line of code I write, every system I architect, every tool I create serves a human need. The goal isn't to replace solid engineering with AI tricks. It's to amplify our ability to solve real problems for real people, faster and better than ever before.