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Stack

AI & agentic engineering
Directs coding agents as the primary implementation path — planning, adversarial review, and verification, not autocomplete.
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • GitHub Copilot
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
  • multi-agent orchestration
  • tool calling
  • SSE streaming
Frontend
Architecture and design-system ownership across four regulated industries, not specs handed down.
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Redux
  • design systems
  • Storybook
  • Nx monorepos
  • internationalization (Lingui)
Quality & accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA and automated accessibility checks as release gates, not a remediation phase.
  • WCAG 2.1 AA
  • axe-core
  • Playwright (E2E + visual)
  • Jest
  • React Testing Library
  • Cypress
  • TDD
Backend, data & cloud
Owned the API, data, and delivery layer where the frontend contract was the hard part.
  • Node.js
  • Java/Spring Boot
  • Django/DRF
  • Flask
  • PostgreSQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes (OpenShift)
  • GitHub Actions
Integrations & compliance
Third-party systems and regulated-data handling — table stakes in fintech, healthcare, and legal, not a new concern for the agentic era.
  • Salesforce (Apex, SOQL)
  • PayPal
  • Google Ads API
  • Twilio
  • OAuth/OIDC (PKCE)
  • BFF architecture
  • PII handling

Experience

  • Virden Web Design — Principal Engineer / AI Engineer

    Freelance · Jun 2026 – Present

    • Designed and shipped an agent-queryable personal platform: the same typed content source renders a React/Next.js site, a plain-text resume, a JSON Resume document, a published OpenAPI 3.1 spec, and an MCP server, so an LLM agent can query the work history as structured tools rather than scrape a page.
    • Built it through a multi-agent delivery pipeline — planner, implementer, and a verifier agent structurally barred from reviewing code it wrote — under WCAG 2.1 AA, axe-core, and Playwright visual-regression gates across three theme variants.
    • Building the Grounded Expungement Eligibility Agent, an audit-trailed agentic product: tool-derived reasoning, no unsupported model assertions, every step persisted for audit (Next.js, FastAPI, Pydantic AI, SSE streaming).

  • TwinWise AI — AI Engineer, Frontend-Focused

    Contract · Jan 2026 – Jun 2026

    • Designed (with the CTO) and implemented a Cloudflare Worker BFF for Zitadel OIDC authentication (PKCE, openid-client/jose), replacing a legacy custom SSO/2FA system — issuing httpOnly session cookies, exposing JWT role claims to the frontend, and gating identity-metadata writes through a service-account-backed endpoint to work around Zitadel's all-or-nothing write-permission model.
    • Orchestrated single- and multi-agent development workflows on an AI-first product; built a bounded, multi-persona adversarial review pipeline — attacking plans pre-implementation and code post-implementation — to ship agentic output at production quality.

  • Thrivent Financial — Senior Frontend Developer

    Contract · Dec 2023 – Dec 2025

    • Led a full replatform of a legacy ASP.NET (ASPX) system to a modern, highly performant, mobile-responsive React/Next.js/TypeScript application on AWS (Red Hat OpenShift, S3) alongside a team of senior engineers.
    • Owned the search-ranking and filtering behavior for Thrivent's financial-advisor search experience (React/Next.js/TypeScript); maintained a Java/Spring Boot service that sanitized and integrated advisor data from Yext, the system of record for advisor profiles across Thrivent's directory and social listings.
    • Introduced agentic development to a team that started the engagement with none — evaluated and rolled out Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, and authored the plan-review and verification conventions the team adopted.
    • Cut CI time ~30% by restructuring the Nx build/task graph; held 80%+ unit coverage (Jest, React Testing Library) with Cypress covering critical user journeys end to end, gated in GitHub Actions.

  • Warner Bros. Discovery — Senior Frontend Developer

    Contract · Feb 2022 – Dec 2023

    • Built the shared front-end component library adopted across HBO, Max, DC.com, TNT, and other WBD properties.
    • Led a cross-functional initiative to add internationalization across all WBD partner-brand sites, defining data contracts with backend and shared components with design.
    • Documented the library in Storybook, raised component test coverage from under 50% to 85%, and modernized Azure-based CI/CD pipelines.

  • LegalShield — Senior Frontend Developer

    Full-time · Jul 2021 – Jan 2022

    • Led the React/TypeScript/Node.js rewrite of a lawyer case-tracking tool's referral system — migrated it off a legacy AngularJS application, mentored two junior engineers through the migration, and established the team's TDD (Jest) and ESLint/Prettier standards.

  • Feedtrail — Founding Frontend Engineer/Architect

    Full-time · Mar 2020 – Jun 2021

    • Set the front-end architecture for a greenfield hospital-experience analytics platform (React, Redux) adopted by major US and European hospital systems.
    • Built Nivo-based data-visualization dashboards and internationalized the product across 20+ locales with Lingui.
    • Wired Sentry into the app bootstrap for production error monitoring; partnered with backend engineers on a Django/DRF/Celery/Elasticsearch API handling HIPAA/GDPR-constrained clinical feedback data.

  • ZenBusiness — Frontend-Leaning Full Stack Developer

    Contract · Jul 2018 – Aug 2019

    • Worked closely with marketing & UI design teams to boost landing-page conversions in an enterprise-level React + Redux app.
    • Integrated Intercom with a GCP-hosted Django API and Salesforce to track customer data for upsells.
    • Wrote multi-level SQL reporting queries against production PostgreSQL and built webhook integrations to track customer growth.

  • WipeRecord — CTO

    Freelance · Apr 2017 – Oct 2020 (concurrent)

    • As sole technical owner, architected and rebuilt a lead-generation product into a fully custom Node.js/Express platform over three years — a Flask-based API integrating Infusionsoft operations, 40+ custom Apex REST endpoints and dozens of tested Salesforce database triggers inserting and modifying customer case records (reached via jsforce, with paired Apex unit tests), and a Mocha/Chai TDD suite covering per-state legal-eligibility logic across 25+ states.
    • Owned the conversion funnel and paid-acquisition integrations (PayPal, maintaining a custom SDK fork; Google Ads API) — lifted conversion 400% (5x more clients monthly); revenue grew from $1M to $3M ARR over the engagement.

  • Earlier — 2016–2018

    Trilogy Education Services — Data Science Teaching Assistant

    Contract · Jan 2018 – Jul 2018

    • Taught a full-stack web development and data science curriculum — JavaScript, React, Node, Python, Pandas, and data visualization with D3.js/Leaflet.js — leading lab sections and code review.

    Cingo.me — Full Stack Developer

    Contract · Oct 2016 – Apr 2017

    • Built two-way SMS on a React/Ruby-on-Rails product with Twilio, letting customers hold real-time text conversations with support reps; automated UI regression testing with Watir/Selenium; deployed to AWS (S3, CloudFront, OpsWorks).

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
BBA, Management Information Systems (2012–2015)
General Assembly
Certificate, JavaScript Development (2016)
The bridge from MIS into production engineering — the first full-stack role started the same year.

Certifications

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum Alliance (since 2015)

Languages

English
Native
Spanish
Professional working proficiency
Daily technical collaboration with QA teams in Mexico, Ecuador, and Peru; founded the dev org's Spanish-speaking engineering channel at WBD (~25 engineers).