Systems engineer · Freelance software developer · Applied AI builder
Production systems · AI engineering · Cloud automation · React Native · Chicago + Erie
ENTER THE ARCADE · LinkedIn · Email · Source
I build infrastructure that stays boring in production, AI that survives real constraints, and software that removes friction. The arcade above is something more personal: a living memorial for my mother, Cathy, made from six original games, three persistent story worlds, a generative jukebox, our real photo-booth portraits, and room for the memories still returning.
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A neon Colorado destruction brawler: clear five towers while defense drones attack. Keyboard and touch. |
A three-zone mountain platform run with patrols, checkpoints, dashes, and twenty-four tokens. |
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A hard three-room action dungeon with distinct enemies, circuit keys, a dash, and the Warden. |
A facade-climbing destruction game with 54 windows, collapsing towers, attack craft, and rooftop defenses. |
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A long-form platform adventure with breakable crates, hidden routes, moving lifts, and two keepsake tokens. |
A timed citadel expedition with ranged combat, readable guardian tells, a five-second ward, a living compass, and a route back to dawn. |
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Three illustrated branching paperbacks with distinct casts, remembered choices, evidence, changing stats, real rewind, local saves, and multiple endings. |
Six evolving browser arrangements with live transport, reactive meters, a 32-bar rave build, sub-heavy drop, synthetic voice, and no streams. |
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Six visual save slots, metaphorical chapters, recovered keepsakes, local progress, and an after-hours epilogue behind the last cabinet. |
Our real photo-booth portraits, her family-sourced life file, and the documented path from a $2.50 prototype to $5 all-you-can-play. |
| System | Current build | Mode |
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| Production engineering | Reliability, observability, and controlled change in a low-latency trading environment | Operating |
| Enterprise AI enablement | Claude + Slack + Jira + Confluence workflows and Git-backed configuration intelligence | Building |
| Freelance software | Practical product, automation, cloud, and data work for organizations that need outcomes | Available |
| Expense capture mobile | React Native iOS/Android app, signed PDF packages, AWS Lambda, and S3 | Field testing |
- Configuration intelligence: trade-server scans committed to Git so AI can expose drift, misalignment, and operational inconsistencies.
- Expense capture: mobile receipt capture through signed submission packages with a serverless AWS backend.
- Regulatory Q&A: turned a 225-page source into 800+ structured lookups in about 15 minutes for less than $4.
- Housing data: automated ingest, SQL storage, geocoding, and API exposure for 20k+ residential sales.
- Interactive infrastructure: AWS network diagram and EC2 / DB / S3 layout.
This reel refreshes twice daily through GitHub Actions. Each track selects the freshest item from a small pool of respected technical sources.
| Track | Fresh signal | Source |
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| AI practice | New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging | Simon Willison · Aug 4 |
| AI research | Revisiting Classic Thought Experiments to Measure Consciousness for Artificial Intelligence Safety | arXiv cs.AI · Aug 5 |
| Systems | An LLM agent attempts to compromise a project on GitHub | LWN.net · Aug 4 |
| Architecture | Presentation: The Five Stages of AI Maturity in Engineering Organizations - Where and Why Teams Get Stuck | InfoQ · Aug 4 |
| Edge & cloud | [Preview Announcement] Re-introducing Forward Proxy as AWS Network Firewall Functionality | AWS What's New · Aug 4 |
Signal source pools
Applied AI: Simon Willison and OpenAI Developers.
Research: arXiv cs.AI and arXiv cs.LG.
Systems: LWN.net and Brendan Gregg.
Architecture: Martin Fowler and InfoQ.
Edge/cloud: Cloudflare Blog and AWS What's New.
 AWS |
 Terraform |
 Ansible |
 Docker |
 Linux |
 Python |
 TypeScript |
 React |
 Django |
 JavaScript |
 HTML5 |
 CSS3 |
 PostgreSQL |
 MySQL |
 SQLite |
 MongoDB |
 R |
 Bash |
 Git |
 GitHub |
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Engineering Systems engineering at a proprietary trading firm Current freelance software development and DevOps AI automation and engineering enablement Applied statistics and data products |
Outside the terminal Military veteran Tai chi and chi gong through the VA Humane society volunteer Amateur astronomy when the sky cooperates |
Education and training
Code Platoon, DevOps and Cloud Engineering, 2024
Code Platoon, Full Stack Software Engineering, 2023
Penn State, Applied Statistics Graduate Certificate, 2015
UC San Diego, B.A. Economics, 2011
San Diego Mesa College, A.A. Business Education, 2008
Chicago, IL + Erie, PA
Available for focused freelance software, automation, cloud, and applied AI work.