Work
Work
Backend, performance, and making teams able to ship—plus current practice on this site’s pipeline.
Highlights. Fuller chronology on LinkedIn.
Selected highlights
- ~1000× forecasting throughput — GPU-accelerated non-linear regression server (CUDA / cuBLAS)
- Source control, CI/CD, and IaC so a SaaS client could ship as a team
- Production speech-recognition telephony (dialog, engine APIs, field watchdogs)
- Now: private Gitea + Actions deploying simrod.com on Cloudflare Workers (TypeScript, D1, Turnstile)
Independent practice · 2022 – present
Not a job—current tools during recovery and re-entry.
A Linux host running Incus system containers. What matters for how I work:
- Private-only Gitea and a Gitea Actions runner — CI and production deploys for personal projects, including this site
- Dev containers so local work and CI stay aligned
- simrod.com — Hugo + Cloudflare Workers (TypeScript), D1, Turnstile; LLM-assisted development with review
Same themes as paid enablement work: source of truth, automation, reproducible envs, day-2 ops—at a scale I fully own. Not a claim of multi-region HA.
MaxTracker LLC — Software Engineer & Consultant
Thornton, CO · Jun 2021 – Dec 2021 · Consulting engagement
Hired to move a client SaaS product closer to production—code and how the organization shipped.
- Introduced source control, CI/CD, and reproducible infrastructure so deploys were a repeatable process
- Refactored Python AWS Lambda APIs and backend code for structure and maintainability
Stack: Python, AWS CDK, Lambda, DynamoDB, GitHub Actions
PowerRunner LLC — Software Engineer
Brentwood, NH · May 2018 – Aug 2019
- Designed and implemented a non-linear regression server with GPU acceleration, improving forecasting throughput by about 1000×
- Fixed a thread-pooling failure so the client backend reached full CPU utilization
Stack: C/C++, CUDA, cuBLAS, Intel TBB
Aha Cafe LLC — Technical Founder
Las Vegas, NV · 2006 – 2012
Led engineering, hosting, and support for a high-traffic fan site tied to American Inventor (bursty, show-driven traffic); shared in company operations.
Stack: Drupal, PHP, MySQL, nginx
Earlier — speech & telephony
Parlance Corporation (Woburn, MA) · 1996 – 2002 · BBN Corporation (Cambridge, MA) · 1994 – 1996
Production speech-enabled telephony: user dialog, recognition-engine APIs, watchdogs and field updates, supporting services (including outbound fax for a travel-agent app). Worked with UX/human-factors and support.
Stack: C/C++, Python
Skills
Python · C/C++ · TypeScript · MySQL · DynamoDB · AWS Lambda/CDK · Cloudflare Workers · CUDA · Linux · GitHub Actions / Gitea Actions · Incus · Hugo