
These are the professional projects, consulting engagements, ventures, and partnerships where thinking met real-world stakes — clients with deadlines, systems that could not go down, teams that needed to ship, and markets that did not wait.
Each page describes one project: what it was, why it mattered, and what made it hard. Content across this site that relates to a given project is listed on that project’s page.
- Agile Team Management as Engineering Manager Helped a team of 10 engineers adopt issue tracking, documentation, sprint planning, standups, demos, and retrospectives. Introduced workstreams based on team...
- Algorithmic Trading Initiative Set up a company and an Interactive Brokers account to build an automated algorithmic trading platform. Used Principal Component Analysis to identify market...
- Audience Intent Data Model Development Designed a unified data model to integrate any data source into a big data geospatial analytics program, handling over 100TB of data in GCS and BigQuery with...
- Aware3 — Prototype iOS/Android App Powered by Web CMS Prototyped native mobile apps for churches and communities powered by a SOAP-based web content management system — an early example of the headless CMS +...
- Aware3 Impact — DevOps Transformation Modernized the entire DevOps pipeline for a company producing customized mobile apps for over 1,000 churches and communities — scaling from 5 app builds per...
- AWS Cloud Adoption FinOps Initiative Developed a FinOps program to modernize cost awareness and resilience across AWS for a 150-person engineering team — including meetings, guidance, tool setup,...
- AWS Infrastructure Cost Reduction — FinOps with Custom Tableau Dashboards Built Tableau dashboards from AWS Cost and Usage Reports to give leadership visibility into cloud spend using Tableau, Tableau Server, AWS Athena, S3, and...
- Barcode Scan — First iOS App The first app built for the App Store in 2009. Ported the ZXing barcode library, handled graphics and affiliate partnerships. Users could scan a barcode and...
- Capital Innovators — Startup Accelerator Participation Participated in a 6-month startup accelerator in St. Louis as CEO/Founder of Lumate, refining business model and go-to-market strategy with mentorship from...
- Company-Wide Engineering Documentation Initiative Developed documentation for hundreds of concepts, systems, datasets, terminology, and deployment procedures. Fought to get the Atlassian stack provided to...
- Cryptocurrency Data Platform Built a real-time cryptocurrency data platform and public website for index data processing and analytics — processing and serving live market data from...
- Data Center Migration to AWS Using Terraform Migrating a federal student loan servicer's infrastructure from a physical data center to AWS using Terraform infrastructure-as-code. The project redesigned...
- Data Reporting Transformation for Hotel Chain Solutions architect role redesigning a fundamentally flawed Pentaho ETL into a scalable AWS Redshift data warehouse for a hospitality leader. Identified root...
- Data Warehouse for Cloud Compliance Verification Built a compliance data warehouse for an In-Q-Tel portfolio company using AWS Glue, Spark, and S3. The system automated FedRAMP and PCI DSS compliance...
- Demographic Prediction Model and Machine Learning Pipeline Built predictive audience demographic datasets using graph databases and AI/ML. Trained models to predict demographic attributes of mobile device audiences...
- Enhanced IP Geolocation Model for Security and Verification Designed a novel IP geolocation confidence model combining location observation data with network topography analysis to improve the accuracy of geographic...
- EPA SBIR Phase 1 — Residential Energy Optimization Algorithms Won a $66,890 EPA SBIR grant to develop adaptive energy management algorithms using sensors and machine learning for residential HVAC optimization — an early...
- Frontier Equity Partners — Colonial Apartments Real Estate Syndication Put together a deal to acquire an apartment complex as a real estate syndication. Built financial models, created the Private Placement Memorandum, developed...
- Geospatial Human Risk Quantification Using SafeGraph location observation data and Databricks/Spark, built a geospatial model to quantify human risk around utility infrastructure — helping...
- Great Data Lake — Rent Demand Pressure Quantification Dataset Built a real estate data product that equips developers, operators, and rehabbers with actionable insights into market demand and geographic preferences by...
- Great Data Lake LLC — Data Brokerage and Value-Add Business Founded and operated a data company that processed hundreds of terabytes of raw, real-time data streams into clean, compliant, valuable datasets for a variety...
- IDC Projects Mobile App and Game Studio A mobile studio that created 25+ iOS and Android apps with 20+ university collaborators during the earliest days of the App Store. The studio operated across...
- Interdisciplinary Design Collaborative (IDC) — Student Business Incubator Before accelerators were a category, IDC was a student-run LLC that engaged over 100 students from Missouri S&T to evaluate thousands of business ideas, build...
- Location Observation Fraud Outlier Identification Used Tableau and sampled data to identify impossible or improbable movement patterns in location observation datasets, then designed a system to tag and filter...
- Lumate AdTrade — Algorithmic Ad Media Trading Platform As co-founder, led a 10-engineer team to build a demand-side and supply-side platform that operated as a real-time market-maker in programmatic advertising —...
- Machine Learning Pipeline for Automated Ad Pricing Before TensorFlow existed, built a continuously-learning SQL-based machine learning system that optimized real-time bid pricing for programmatic advertising —...
- Memory Matches — Managing the Franchise A decade-long mobile game franchise that hit #1 Game on the US App Store, was downloaded by millions, and generated over $1M in revenue across 15+ derivatives...
- Microservices Architecture (Docker, ECS, Terraform) Designed and built a containerized, auto-scaling microservices framework on AWS — first in 2014, then revised in 2018 with EKS, ArgoCD, Helm, and GitHub... 1
- Proprietary Vendor Data Warehousing and Big Data Management Managed proprietary and sensitive big datasets in Google Cloud using GCS, BigQuery, and Composer (Apache Airflow). Built Confluence documentation from scratch...
- PulaCloud — Human Computation for Developing Countries A venture that used human computation to create employment opportunities in developing countries while solving scientific problems. The venture explored the...
- React Component IDE and Publishing Marketplace Built a cloud-based IDE for developing and reusing React components using VS Code Server hosted on AWS ECS — allowing developers to create, test, and publish...
- Restaurant Franchise ETL and Data Model Development Built accounting and point-of-sale data warehouse ETL processes and data models for restaurant franchise analytics including Blaze Pizza and other chains,...
- SBIR Proposal Portfolio — Winning Federal Grants as Undergraduates Wrote over $3M in federal proposals for EPA, DOD (Army), NIST, and DARPA as undergraduates — winning $75K as what we believe was the youngest team ever to...
- Scaling to Millions of Loan Customers A multi-year initiative to scale a cloud-native, serverless loan management platform on AWS for a student and consumer debt company. Wrote Architecture...
- Scoring Algorithm for Customer Revisit Attribution Designed, implemented, and tested 150 iterations of a scoring algorithm to determine the likelihood of a customer revisiting a physical store, based on mobile...
- Sharded Redis Cluster for High-Capacity Low-Latency Buffer Configured a 54-node, 1TB in-memory Redis cluster with Twemproxy for real-time ad-bidding data throughput, handling extremely high concurrent reads and writes...
- Six-Month Turnaround of Stalled Defense Projects Brought in under NDA to assess defense-related software projects blocked for over a year despite significant investment. Within six months, diagnosed the...
- Soft Query Engine (Druid, GKE, Airflow) Researched and added a query viability layer to a geospatial analytics product used by the US federal government, reducing analytics costs by pre-evaluating...
- Voronoi Regions for International Geofencing Created an algorithm to build an optimal international geofencing system for hundreds of millions of postal address regions, incorporating feedback from 32...
- Your pH Life — Mobile App Development Partnership A partnership to develop a mobile health and wellness application involving app development, partnership management, and health-related software constraints...