Based in
Jacksonville, FL
// Engineer building intelligent systems — Rust, Python, and fine-tuned LLMs underneath.
Ten-plus years across Rust, Python, TypeScript and .NET. Currently shipping a multi-locale assistant at Apple, with RAG and small-model fine-tuning on the side. Turning research into products that stay up.
No badges, no percentages. The things I reach for first, grouped lightly. If it's listed here I've shipped with it.
Five entries, oldest at the bottom. Each one is a thing I shipped or am shipping — not a job description.
A context-aware automated assistant serving millions of users across multiple locales and surfaces. Low-latency, transactional, IVR + chat. Rust for node-to-node graph traversal at the core; Vue.js inspector on top; Node.js + MongoDB clusters around it. Fine-tuned LLMs for the harder intents — nuance over novelty.
A short, dense engagement on an internal tool for managing loans across milestones with analytics on top. F# + C# microservices feeding a React frontend; Snowflake as the warehouse. Tight scope, fast delivery.
Broke a legacy Encompass-SDK LOS into micro-frontends and microservices on Kubernetes. GraphQL gateway, Redis for low-latency caching, and an ML-based region pricing model. Angular + React in front of .NET Core. I owned the scaling story.
Led the team that built and ran the customer-facing loan origination system. ReactJS + C# .NET Web API, transactional and fault-tolerant. Region-based pricing and appraisal. Served 2,500 associates and 250k+ customer logins.
Replaced a paper bill-reimbursement workflow with an ASP.NET + WPF system. Wrote a JavaScript SHA-1 path that beat the C# one, designed a ClickOnce WPF doc-scan flow, and migrated the data from PostgreSQL to SQL Server. Security tested with Burp Suite.
Things I've built over the years — production systems, AI tooling, and full-stack platforms. Most started as a personal itch and grew into something real.
A Rust MCP server that exposes local developer tools to Claude Desktop — file operations, shell execution, git history, and code search. Rust binary starts instantly, uses minimal memory, and gives full control over allowed paths and commands.
A Rust CLI for chatting with LLMs from the terminal. Starts with Ollama for single-turn queries, grows to support TOML prompt templates, SQLite conversation history, named sessions, OpenAI and Anthropic providers, streaming output, and a full ratatui TUI chat interface.
A local developer time tracker. tl start, do work, tl stop. Projects and tags for grouping. A ratatui TUI dashboard with a live ticking elapsed counter, project bar chart, and daily timeline view.
A fast, terminal-native Markdown notes manager. File-based storage — notes are plain .md files, metadata in a TOML index. No database. qn create 'my idea' opens in $EDITOR and tracks everything automatically.
Two degrees, plus a stubborn habit of reading documentation cover to cover.
College of Engineering and Computer Science · Dayton, OH
Network security, applied cryptography, secure systems.
Hyderabad, India
Algorithms, OS, distributed systems. First job started before the gown was off.
The longer story, kept short. Three paragraphs and a sidebar.
I've spent ten-plus years writing software for a living — mostly full-stack, mostly under pressure. The work I'm proudest of is rarely the most novel; it's the stuff that stayed up and stayed correct.
Today I'm at Apple on a conversational AI platform — multi-locale, transactional, low-latency. Rust handles the core traversal; Vue.js drives the operator surface; Node.js and MongoDB clusters sit underneath. Before this, a long run at Home Point Financial on the loan-origination platform.
On personal time I fine-tune small language models on intent data, build terminal-native tools in Rustbecause the shell should feel instant, and read the layers under the application — networking, security, hardware. There's a cyber-security MS in there too, and a stubborn opinion that application engineers should know more about what's under them.
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