Senior Staff Frontend Software Engineer
Hands-on Senior Staff Engineer with 15+ years of experience building scalable frontend platforms, modernizing shared engineering infrastructure, and leading cross-team delivery across product and platform work. I specialize in React, TypeScript, GraphQL, design systems, frontend architecture, developer tooling, and agentic workflows, with measurable impact across delivery speed, app performance, CI efficiency, and team standards.
Skills
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- GraphQL
- Node.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Design systems
- Frontend architecture
- Developer tooling
- Agentic workflows
- GitHub Actions
- GCP
- Sentry
- Webpack/Vite
Experience
ZenBusiness — Senior Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead (Platform & Growth)
–,Remote
Public Benefit Corp serving 850k+ entrepreneurs; tech lead for primary customer acquisition funnel.
- Cut cached CI builds by 85% and local builds by 97% by modernizing build infrastructure across 12+ frontend apps and resolving a circular dependency.
- Migrated analytics instrumentation from a third-party event platform to an internal eventing system across 12+ frontend apps, cutting vendor cost and fixing an SDK race that dropped early events.
- Led observability and error standardization across GraphQL and micro-frontends, introducing structured Sentry fingerprinting and custom error handling to accelerate root-cause analysis.
- Architected and built a company-wide React design system in 3 months, creating 180+ components, cutting duplicate UI code by 60%, and driving 90% adoption.
- Reduced new acquisition funnel delivery from 6 weeks to under 1 week by engineering a reusable skip-logic framework, saving ~100 developer-weeks annually.
- Improved purchase funnel LCP by 40% through Webpack tuning and tree shaking, reducing bundle size by 60%.
Blazer Six — Co-Founder, Product Engineering Lead
–,Remote
Independent web studio and product shop; scaled to 12k+ customers, drove $2.5M+ in revenue, and successfully exited the business in 2025.
- Co-founded a digital product company (AudioTheme.com/Cedaro) and secured a strategic 10-year partnership with Automattic (WordPress.com) to scale distribution.
- Architected and launched a suite of commercial web products serving 12k+ customers, generating $2.5M+ in revenue.
- Streamlined the entire product lifecycle by automating deployments, version control, and support workflows, reducing time-to-market and improving stability.
ZenBusiness — Senior Software Engineer (Formations & Compliance)
–,Remote
Early frontend platform and product engineering work across formations, compliance, and customer support experiences.
- Established reusable frontend component patterns that later informed the company-wide design system and accelerated delivery across multiple product squads.
- Delivered a React, Dialogflow CX, and GraphQL chatbot microservice, owning the architecture and core customer-facing flow.
CELTIC7 Studio — Founder, Full-Stack Solutions Lead
–,Iowa
- Built and ran a full-stack web studio, winning contracts with the University of Iowa, U.S. Olympic Trials, and NFL athletes while leading consulting, scoping, and delivery.
- Designed and delivered 20+ full-stack web applications, integrating custom APIs and implementing large-scale CMS (WordPress) and e-commerce solutions.
Awards & Accomplishments
- Hackathon Team Lead – CMD+K menu — ZenBusiness (2023-11)
- Hackathon Winner – Salesforce integration (Vue 3) — ZenBusiness (2022-10)
- Hackathon Runner-up – Support ticket automation — ZenBusiness (2022-02)
Education
- B.S. Graphic Communication & Multimedia — Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN
- General Studies Computer Information Systems — University of Mary, Bismarck, ND
Personal
- High school wrestling coach
- FCA coaches and student huddle leader
- Homeschooling parent
- Grew up attending a one-room schoolhouse
- Former shepherd
- Entrepreneur