Lead full stack engineer — Laravel, Rails, and TypeScript/Next.js. Seven years of taking systems from broken to profitable: locked-out servers, leaked keys, multi-second queries, dead products.
Every project tagged by what it actually was: a rescue, a rebuild, a scale-up, or a greenfield build.
Owner locked out of her own AWS server, Stripe and SendGrid keys leaked, product effectively dead. Restored access via EBS volume surgery, rotated every credential, then rebuilt the platform from scratch as technical partner. 2,000%+ revenue growth to profitability in six months — before any marketing. Serving 25,000+ families.
Luxury ski chalet platform featured in Tatler, The Telegraph & The Times. Its search was fully broken — rebuilt it from scratch: heavy faceting, currency conversion computed in-query at the database layer, and availability logic like "consecutively free for two 7-day sessions." Multi-second search down to ~1 second.
Audio-visual archive platform used by Yale and other research libraries. Took over a 10-year veteran's full role within 4 months. Led Solr 7→9 and Rails 5→7 upgrades, built field-level search authorization at the index layer, and cut timeout-prone queries to ~1 second.
Complete rebuild of a vanilla PHP application in Laravel, delivered in two months as architecture lead. Pixel-identical frontend, fully re-engineered backend, seamless production cutover.
AI-powered interview preparation for RICS chartered surveyors, built solo end to end: personalized question generation, competency-specific mock interviews, subscription billing, and an admin panel with live prompt control.
Marketplace for paid 15-minute 1-on-1 video calls, in active development. Host onboarding and full Stripe Express money movement: payments, refunds, manual payouts, and transaction sync between Stripe and MongoDB.
Polyglot by necessity — clients arrive with what they have. Deep in Laravel, fluent everywhere else.
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