🔹 Current: Senior Full‑Stack Engineer @ STAG Securities — building sub‑second commodity‑pricing pipelines (TT SDK → Kafka → Redis → React/SignalR) and a Hangfire-powered scheduling platform.
🔹 Past Highlights:
- Modernized Progressive Leasing’s credit-bureau monolith into 12 .NET 8 micro‑services running in AWS.
- Architected HIPAA-compliant APIs & MAUI mobile apps at TurningPoint Healthcare.
- Led SaaS API and mobile rewrite for 200+ AAA/CAA clubs at Club Assist.
🔹 Focus Areas: Distributed systems • Real-time data feeds • DevOps automation • Secure authentication (Auth0, Okta, CyberArk) • Mentoring dev teams on Clean Architecture
🐟 Fun fact: I keep a Black Moor fancy goldfish and a cat named Luna!
| Category | Toolbox |
|---|---|
| Languages | C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL, PL/pgSQL |
| Frameworks | .NET 8/6/5/Core 3.1, ASP.NET, gRPC, Blazor, React, Angular 12+ |
| Mobile | Xamarin, .NET MAUI |
| Cloud & DevOps | AWS (Lambda, S3, ECR/ECS, CloudWatch), Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy |
| Data | PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB/DocumentDB, Redis, Snowflake |
| Messaging/Schedulers | Apache Kafka, Hangfire, SignalR, Azure Service Bus |
| Auth & Security | Auth0, Okta, JWT/OIDC, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault |
| Observability | Grafana, SolarWinds AppOptics |
- Enhancing STAG Securities' Jobs micro-service to auto-generate broker reports in multiple formats (PDF, Excel, Parquet).
- Experimenting with Dapr sidecars to simplify cross-service communication and state management.
- Building reusable Clean-Architecture templates for .NET 8 micro-services.
- 📚 Studying for Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate 🟦
- 🕵️♂️ Deep-diving into eBPF-based observability and Rust for high-performance data tooling.
Feel free to reach out for collaboration, consulting, or just to chat about distributed systems, fish keeping, or woodworking!
"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad." — Cory House