Full-stack Engineer, 10 years in. Mostly Rust, Go, and Node.js on the backend, React and Next.js on the frontend. I build APIs, CLI tools, and Cloudflare Workers backends, and add AI features to existing products.

10 Years of Experience

20+ Certifications across AWS, Google Cloud, Meta, and Intel

30+ Google Skill Badges validating applied, hands-on expertise

🟢 Open to work · Hire Me on Contra¹ / Upwork

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• Backend & Systems: Rust · Go · Node.js
• Edge, Cloud & DevOps: Cloudflare Workers · WebAssembly · AWS · Google Cloud (GCP) · Docker
• AI Integration: OpenAI-compatible APIs · Workers AI · LLM gateways
• Databases: PostgreSQL · D1 · Redis
• Frontend: React / Next.js · TypeScript
• Mobile/Desktop: Swift / SwiftUI · Electron

• rico: Rust CLI for bulk image conversion and background removal. Runs in CI for a production site and handles thousands of images. Built for solid backgrounds like white, not busy scenes.
• WaiChat: Open-source AI chat app that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers, D1, and Workers AI.
• Building LLM gateway: OpenAI-compatible gateway in Rust on Cloudflare Workers.

Independent Full-Stack Engineer, Upwork · Mar 2018 to present

• Built and shipped 15+ web apps for clients, including B2C and B2B storefronts, service portals, and internal tools. All delivered on the agreed date.
• Ran each project solo from first scoping call to production: architecture, deployment, and maintenance after launch.
• Worked mostly in React, Next.js, Node.js, and Firebase, with Cloudflare handling the edge and security side.
• Kept clients updated in plain language throughout. Led to more work.

Lead Frontend Engineer, Züs (0Chain) · Mar 2022 to Sep 2023

• Promoted to Lead Frontend Engineer three months after joining. Set technical direction for 30+ frontend engineers across 6 products.
• Raised 1,500+ pull requests in the shared monorepo, roughly 7x the next highest contributor, and reviewed nearly all PRs from the rest of the team to keep architecture and code quality consistent.
• Took over Vult end to end, including coordinating releases across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.
• Started by reading other engineers' PRs to understand how the six products fit together, which led to owning product-level decisions.

Lead Software Engineer, LMS Company · Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

• Led performance work on a legacy e-learning platform used by school districts in several US states.
• Refactored parts of the PHP backend and rewrote slow SQL queries, which cut latency and page load times under heavy load.
• Set up CI/CD on Bitbucket and wrote contribution guidelines so the codebase stayed maintainable after I left.

Full Stack Engineer, IoT Tracking Solutions · Apr 2021 – Jun 2021

• Worked on a real-time location tracking system for construction sites, covering both workers and vehicles. Data came from GPS units and IoT badges, with Link Labs hardware integrated into the pipeline.
• Helped design the system end to end: Go and PostgreSQL on the backend, React on the frontend.