Self-directed backend engineer with deep investment in security, scalable system design, and emerging tooling. Pragmatic about AI, enthusiastic about learning, and a strong written communicator who understands the business problem before reaching for a technical solution.

Employment History

• Sole architect and owner of all cloud backend systems serving 300K+ active users within a 4-person engineering team. Responsible for reliability, design decisions, and delivery across every backend surface.
• Led a full backend rewrite from Node.js/Express to Python 3/FastAPI, migrating ~70 endpoints to a typed, tested, maintainable system; applied agentic AI workflows to systematically map untyped JavaScript to typed Python equivalents, compressing weeks of mechanical work into a fraction of the time.
• Architected the company's most-requested feature, a realtime Live Draft Tool, built on a Redis-backed polling system against upstream fantasy APIs with no persistent storage, now expanding to additional platforms.
• Owned the full stakeholder loop as sole senior backend engineer: managed a junior developer, triaged requests with customer experience, organized staff testing teams for new releases, and served as the primary conduit between leadership and backend priorities.

• Built and maintained integrations with 12 fantasy sports platforms (ESPN, Yahoo, Sleeper, CBS, and others), designing resilient scraper architecture with fallback handling and dynamic page recovery.
• Developed internal PHP tooling for a customer service team, surfacing key customer datapoints from the production database for troubleshooting; also built uptime monitoring, error logging, and staff-facing content management interfaces.
• Maintained all customer-facing pages, handling CSS and JavaScript updates across the site's frontend.

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