Projects for Work

These are the professional projects, consulting engagements, ventures, and partnerships where thinking met real-world stakes; for what belongs here and how to use it as a map, read Introducing Projects for Work, then use the alphabetical listing below to jump to any project.

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 Managing the two-person team that built the first native iOS and Android clients for a church and community platform, driven by a SOAP-based web CMS around 2010 — the headless-CMS-plus-native-frontend pattern before it had a name.
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 Building a FinOps program for a 150-person engineering organization that had just left its own data center — tagging, cost allocation, committed-use strategy, and teaching cloud cost to engineers who had never bought capacity by the hour.
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...
CartStack AWS Operations and Deployment Modernization Seven years of AWS operations for a cart-recovery platform — from ad-hoc troubleshooting to a Docker, Terraform, and ECS deployment system a growing team can run.
Civic Open Data Platform and Vacancy Analysis for Saint Louis Built the AWS infrastructure behind a public DKAN civic data platform, and turned an undocumented city parcel database into a vacancy map that informed policy.
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 Architecture and engineering management for a cryptocurrency market data platform — multi-exchange ingestion, derived indexes, and a standardized environment a growing team could build in.
Data Center Migration to AWS Using Terraform Two years moving roughly 30 internal products out of a physical data center onto AWS with Terraform, inside a federal compliance envelope that shaped the design before performance did.
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 A compliance data warehouse on AWS Glue, Spark, and S3 that treats FedRAMP and PCI DSS conformance as a continuously measured property instead of a periodic audit.
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...
Duesy — Reliability for Spiky Serverless Ticketing Cloud infrastructure and reliability for a youth-sports ticketing platform, where weekend traffic spikes meet a serverless architecture and a gate that cannot fail.
Engineering Oversight for Machine Learning Bond Pricing Independent engineering oversight for a bond-pricing tool built by contractors — the standards layer between a non-technical founder and the teams doing the work.
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 A geospatial risk model built on mobile location observation data, so a utility inspection company could prioritize poles by how many people a failure would actually affect.
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... 1
Great Data Lake LLC — Data Brokerage and Value-Add Business Founded and ran a data brokerage from 2017 to 2022 that turned hundreds of terabytes of raw location and advertising data into clean, compliant, sellable datasets for defense, government, and finance customers.
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... 2
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 —... 1
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 —... 1
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... 2
Microservices Architecture (Docker, ECS, Terraform) Designed and built a containerized, auto-scaling microservices framework on AWS in 2014 — supporting services in Python, Node, Rust, and OpenResty with multi-region capability. 1
Microservices Platform Modernization (EKS, ArgoCD, Helm) Revised the 2014 container platform in 2018 onto EKS, ArgoCD, Helm, and GitHub Actions — moving from hand-run deployments to declarative, GitOps-driven delivery.
Mortgage Operations Scorecards and Cycle Time Dashboards Tableau scorecards and cycle-time dashboards for a mortgage lender that had never measured its production teams — where the hard part was defining the metrics, not drawing the charts.
Operating Infrastructure for a Construction Practice The shared operating layer behind a construction management practice running multiple active projects — Atlassian ecosystem, branded reporting, IT, and administration.
Operations and Delegation Layer for an Executive Peer Group Company Helping a decades-old executive peer group company codify its working knowledge into documented processes a small team can run through the next stage of growth.
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...
The Evergreen Collective Model — Structuring Funds That Open Over Time Designed a reusable fund model that can be seeded early, expanded over time, and entered on a rolling basis, rather than requiring every deal and every investor to arrive at one closing.
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...