“Simplify, then add lightness. Adding power makes you faster on the straights; subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.” ~ Colin Chapman, Founder of Lotus Cars
I'm an entrepreneur with a balanced technical and non-technical skill set. I know how to build a product for a business and a business for a product. I'm passionate about making the world a better place and creating opportunities through efficiency, transparency, and liquidity. I live in Chattanooga, Tennessee (the Scenic City) with my beautiful wife, newborn son, and three dogs.
- Back-end development using Node, TypeScript, Express, Laravel/Lumen, Jest/Mocha/Chai, PHPUnit
- Front-end development using React, Redux, NextJs, Vue, TypeScript, Webpack, Vite, SASS, CSS in JS, Jest/Mocha/Chai
- Data storage using SQL, Mongo, Redis, S3, GCP, Cloudsearch/Solr
- DevOps using Docker, Nginx, CI/CD, CDN, Serverless features, Microservices
- Headless web crawling using NightmareJs/Electron, Puppeteer/Chromium, Request/cURL
- Technical SEO using HTML5, Structured Data Schemas, Prerendering
- People & Task Management using Jira, Zenhub, Slack, Lattice
- Used Equipment Guide
- Founder & CEO/CTO of the world's largest search engine for used heavy trucks and equipment indexing ~3 million items for sale from ~4000 websites worldwide worth over $50 billion.
- Successfully raised $3 million in seed funding as a prerevenue company in early 2018. The company was acquired by Randall-Reilly in 2020 and the website has been modified to only index US-based inventory.
- Performance engineering for humans and bots with structured data.
- dieseljobs.com
- Founder & CEO/CTO of the largest niche job board for the heavy truck and equipment industry. The company was acquired by Randall-Reilly in 2020 and merged into their existing job board operations.
- Mane Avenue Salon
- My awesome sister opened a salon a few years ago and I built/manage her website using NextJs.
- Performance engineering for humans and bots with structured data.
- 🌄 I've climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
- 💪 I've done several GORUCK Challenges.
- 🏆 I enjoy fencing--I'm a "three weapon foilist".
- 🎲 I used to live in Las Vegas and play poker semi-professionally.
- 🚗 I like cars--I have a 2003 Toyota MR2 and my daily driver is a 2019 Hyundai Veloster Turbo Ultimate.
✈️ I like to travel and have been to most of the states and many countries, but all of our 2020 trips have been cancelled due to coronavirus. 😷
