Senior Staff Full-Stack Product & Platform Engineer
Hands-on Senior Staff Engineer with 15+ years of experience building customer-facing products, shared platforms, and engineering systems across the stack. I specialize in React, TypeScript, frontend architecture, design systems, developer tooling, and agentic engineering workflows, with experience spanning GraphQL, integrations, observability, and cloud infrastructure. Proven impact modernizing engineering platforms, improving delivery speed and reliability, and building AI-enabled systems that make engineering teams more effective.
Skills
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Tailwind
- Design Systems
- GraphQL
- REST APIs
- Node.js
- SQL
- PHP
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Cursor
- Agentic Workflows
- MCP
- Skills
- Multi-Agent Workflows
- AWS
- GCP
- Shopify
- Segment
- RudderStack
- Sentry
- LaunchDarkly
- Jest
- React Testing Library
- Playwright
- Storybook
- GitHub Actions
- Webpack/Vite
Experience
Littlebird — Frontend Software Engineer
–, Remote
Consumer IoT startup building a screen-free safety wearable for kids, pioneering Amazon Sidewalk.
- Standardized engineering foundations across 3 frontend applications, unifying testing, shared patterns, AI skills, and code-quality tooling; deployed autonomous Cursor agents to monitor Sentry, investigate production issues, and generate remediation PRs.
- Rebuilt and shipped the e-commerce platform in 2 weeks, migrating production checkout to headless Shopify with dynamic products and pricing, backend plan integration, mobile purchase handoffs, and Segment analytics.
- Cut JavaScript bundle size by ~50% while improving Lighthouse performance, accessibility, SEO, and maintainability across desktop and mobile.
ZenBusiness — Staff / Senior Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead (Platform & Growth)
–, Remote
Public Benefit Corp serving 950,000 businesses; tech lead for primary customer acquisition funnel. Selected as Technical Lead shortly after joining; promoted to Senior Staff Engineer in 2026.
- Architected and built a company-wide React and TypeScript design system in 3 months, creating 180+ components, cutting duplicate UI code by 60%, and driving 90% adoption.
- Built an agentic health-check workflow across a multi-team engineering portfolio, orchestrating Sentry, GCP, Jira, and Confluence to correlate production issues, prioritize findings, and generate agent-ready tickets; saved 4+ engineering hours weekly while significantly increasing investigation depth.
- Designed and deployed an autonomous code-maintenance system across 3 production repositories, using configurable risk controls, organizational AI skills, and CI guardrails to identify improvements and generate low-risk PRs for testing, dead code, consistency, and code quality.
- Standardized error handling and observability across GraphQL and micro-frontends, introducing structured Sentry fingerprinting and enriched error context to improve root-cause analysis and enable automated cross-system health monitoring.
- Reduced new acquisition funnel delivery from 6 weeks to under 1 week by engineering a reusable, configuration-driven skip-logic framework, saving ~100 developer-weeks annually.
- Designed a versioned AI skills architecture distributed through shared npm packages, automatically providing coding agents with package-specific standards, patterns, and documentation across repositories.
- Cut cached CI builds by 85% and local builds by 97% by modernizing shared build infrastructure across 12+ applications and resolving a critical circular dependency.
Blazer Six — Co-Founder, Product Engineering Lead
–, Remote
Independent web studio and product company successfully exited in 2025.
- Co-founded and built AudioTheme/Cedaro, securing a strategic 10-year partnership with Automattic (WordPress.com) that expanded global distribution.
- Architected, built, and launched a suite of commercial web products serving 12k+ customers and generating $2.5M+ in revenue.
- Automated deployment, versioning, and support workflows across the product lifecycle, accelerating releases and improving operational reliability.
ZenBusiness — Senior Software Engineer (Formations & Compliance)
–, Remote
- Established reusable component architecture that became the foundation for the company-wide design system and accelerated delivery across multiple product teams.
- Architected and built an end-to-end conversational product using React, GraphQL, and Dialogflow CX, owning the customer experience, application architecture, and service integration.
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 end-to-end delivery.
- Designed and delivered 20+ full-stack web applications spanning custom APIs, data-driven WordPress platforms, e-commerce, and third-party integrations.
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
Community
- Volunteer Ministry Leader — Lead local outreach and serve in men's ministry leadership
- Wrestling Coach — 15+ years coaching and mentoring student-athletes
- Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) — Established and led coaches and student Bible studies before transitioning leadership; serve in discipleship leadership and as a wrestling coach at FCA's Iowa Sports Camp
Personal
- Homeschooling parent
- Grew up attending a one-room schoolhouse
- Former shepherd
- Entrepreneur