Software engineer since 2017, with six years of full-stack experience in PHP, Node, React and TypeScript: websites for credit unions, the backend of a healthcare-benefits platform handling medical and financial data, and an enterprise shipping-data dashboard. Independent since 2023, with client work under NDA and 19 projects at ampactor.dev, from web apps and APIs to a self-hosting compiler and audio software that runs on a microcontroller. I own features end to end, from the interface to the service behind it.
Independent Software Engineer, Ampactor LabsSalt Lake City, UT · 2018–present (full-time since 2023)
Client and contract work under NDA: blockchain infrastructure and full-stack product work, including deployment, debugging and ongoing support.
Built and deployed TokenSafe, a Node/TypeScript API that scores Solana tokens from on-chain data and prices each check at $0.02 through x402 micropayments, and Scry, its React web UI and Telegram bot. Deployed with Docker, with Prometheus metrics and structured logs.
Built Perennials, an offline-first React/TypeScript app backed by a Node/PostgreSQL service that searches about 8,800 plants by growing conditions; every search is a shareable URL.
Maintain the projects at ampactor.dev, including a self-hosting compiler, a Rust DSP framework whose kernels run in desktop plugins and on a Cortex-M7 guitar pedal, a SIMD sort published on crates.io, a Solana transaction crate whose CI runs it against a real validator, and a dozen browser apps and games.
Every project's README follows one written standard, with a Limitations section and benchmarks that include the cases it loses, and the site generates each project's card from it at build time.
Full Stack Developer, Perfect AfternoonRemote · 2022–2023
Built WordPress sites, custom business tooling, migration systems and automated recurring processes.
Full Stack Developer, CommandLinkRemote · 2021–2022
Built and maintained the PHP dashboard enterprise IT teams use to manage and stream product-shipping data.
Maintained its asynchronous Node.js backend (WebSockets, RabbitMQ); overhauled CI/CD and onboarding, cutting build failures by about 30%.
Back End Developer, Planstin2019–2021
Engineered the PHP backend of a healthcare-benefits platform handling sensitive medical and financial data.
Built fault-tolerant synchronization pipelines with Salesforce and maintained high-throughput backend workflows.
Back End Developer, Balance of Nature2018–2019
Built and maintained the PHP ticket-management system used across the customer-service organization: messaging, escalation and workflow features.
Front End Developer, Tenth Muse Design2017–2018
Built and shipped PHP websites for credit unions and other clients, including OASCU and National Geographic's credit union.
SIMD radix sort on crates.io: 2.2 to 3.2 times as fast as the standard library on random 32-bit keys from 1M to 100M on one laptop, with the losses (64-bit keys, a second machine) documented.
Background
I ran a music studio and worked in film audio before software. The audio and DSP projects started there.