I build complete web applications with React, TypeScript, Node.js and MySQL — from relational data and secure APIs to responsive interfaces, real-time systems and cloud deployment.
Six years of sustained learning and building, enterprise software experience, and a current focus on agentic development with Claude Code and Cowork.
Remote · US Citizen · EU Work Authorization · Available for Global Teams
I did not enter software engineering through a shortcut. Since 2020 I have invested thousands of hours studying, building, debugging and learning how complete systems work — more than 1,700 of them publicly tracked on WakaTime since 2022, and many more off the tracker.
2020
A deliberate career change
Transitioned from finance and operations — ETF operations at BNY Mellon, a management role at Sigma/Andbank — into software engineering, bringing analytical discipline, attention to detail and professional accountability.
2021–2022
Formal foundation
Completed an intensive year-long full-stack development program at John Bryce College and built numerous frontend, backend and full-stack applications.
2022
Flagship builds — before AI assistants
Built complete applications with React, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, MySQL and MongoDB — authentication, real-time communication, admin tooling — before generative coding assistants became part of the workflow.
2023–2025
Enterprise delivery
Delivered enterprise Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM solutions remotely through Matrix across multiple client engagements — including global shipping (ZIM Integrated Shipping Services) and healthcare.
2025–2026
Agentic engineering
Expanded deeply into AI-assisted and agentic software engineering: Claude Code, Cowork, reusable skills, plugins, specialized agents and verification-driven development workflows.
02 — Selected Work
Case Studies
Complete, deployed applications — designed, built and shipped end-to-end by one engineer, before generative coding assistants were part of the workflow.
Flagship Case Study · 2022 · Built pre-AI
A Real-Time Full-Stack Vacation Platform
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I designed and built an end-to-end vacation management platform in which users register, explore destinations and follow vacations, while administrators manage listings through a protected dashboard. Socket.io synchronizes relevant changes across connected clients in real time.
Admin dashboard — live catalog, edit & deleteUser view — followed vacationsAdd vacation — validated MUI formJWT-secured loginRelational data — vacations table, MySQL
Business Logicdomain rules · centralized error handling
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MySQLrelational data — users · vacations · follows
⇅ Socket.io — real-time events to connected clients
Engineering Decisions
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What I Would Modernize Today
The platform still runs as it was built in 2022. Revisiting it today, I would reach for:
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Less a critique of the original than a measure of how far the craft has kept moving.
Case Study · 2022
An Authenticated E-Commerce System from Catalog to Receipt
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I built a complete shopping platform with user registration, authentication, product discovery, category browsing, cart management, checkout, order processing, downloadable receipts and a protected administrator interface for product and inventory management.
Yammie Restaurant needed online ordering. I built the backend in TypeScript following Node’s layered architecture — controller, business-logic and data-access layers over MySQL — then published it as an npm package with automated tests, a seed database, a Postman collection and run instructions, so anyone can stand it up and verify it.
Working within distributed Agile teams, I helped build and support enterprise Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM solutions across multiple industries — including global shipping and healthcare — supporting sales, marketing, customer-service and business operations.
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Enterprise details are presented at a high level to respect client confidentiality.
Engagement Map
Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRMenterprise CRM · multiple industries
Global shipping — ZIM
Healthcare
Sales & marketing workflows
Customer-service & business operations
Delivery Pipeline · Azure DevOps · Agile Scrum
User story→Implementation→QA→Production
04 — Capabilities
From Foundation to Cloud
I am comfortable working across the complete application lifecycle — from relational data and backend architecture to frontend experience, security, testing and deployment.
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05 — Agentic AI
Engineering with Agents, Not Just Prompts
Over the past year I have focused deeply on agentic software development: creating structured environments in which AI systems receive durable context, specialized capabilities, acceptance criteria and verification steps.
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The workflow — select a stage
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My goal is not to replace engineering judgment. It is to give strong engineering judgment more leverage.
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06 — Freelance
Available for Selected Freelance Projects
I work with founders and small teams that need someone capable of understanding the complete product — not only one isolated screen.
Confidential Startup MVP · Freelance
Timecard Trading Platform
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A full-stack e-commerce application for trading and reselling timecards — delivered end-to-end as a working startup MVP.
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React client⇄Node.js API→StripeSocket.ioMySQL
Additional project details are available privately.
Freelance is selective by design — my primary focus is a full-time engineering role.
07 — Education
An Analytical Foundation
Rutgers University
BA, Psychology & Economics
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John Bryce College
Diploma, Full-Stack Development
A year-long intensive program covering React, Node.js, TypeScript and modern full-stack engineering — the formal core of a much longer self-directed education.
Before engineering — finance & operations
ETF Operations Analyst — BNY Mellon
New York · 2012–2015
Fund accounting, reconciliations and trade settlements for ETF operations; money movement including wires, SPOs and SWIFTs; corporate actions accurately reflected across indexes; equity, fixed-income, FX and cash break reconciliation — liaising with institutional brokers including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse.
Finance & Operations Manager — Sigma Premium Wealth Management, part of Andbank
Global HQ · 2018–2020
Oversaw financial operations for high-net-worth clients with assets exceeding $1B — reporting, investment monitoring and account management across foreign-currency holdings, stocks, bonds, dividends, alternative investments, loans and pensions, including 30+ quarterly reports.
The discipline behind my engineering — accountability, precision and financial-domain fluency. The career is software.
08 — About
Self-Directed by Default
I am a highly self-directed software engineer who learns by going deeply into how systems work. I transitioned into engineering in 2020 after working in finance and operations, then spent years studying, building full-stack applications and developing the technical foundation that led into professional enterprise work.
I enjoy taking complicated problems apart, learning unfamiliar systems and turning requirements into reliable software. My current focus is combining strong frontend and full-stack fundamentals with agentic AI workflows that improve research, implementation and quality assurance.
Base
Remote
Citizenship
US Citizen · EU work authorization
Core stack
React · TypeScript · Node.js · MySQL
Currently
Agentic AI engineering — Claude Code & Cowork
Open to
Full-time roles · selected freelance
09 — Contact
Let’s Build Something Valuable
I’m available for remote software-engineering opportunities and selected freelance projects. Tell me about the role, product or technical challenge.
