Building Ampwall, a mission-driven Public Benefit Company building an innovative e-commerce marketplace and community platform connecting music scenes, artists, and fans. It draws from my lifetime of experience as a touring musicians and songwriting combined with my career as a software engineer.

I'm architecting and building the entire platform from the ground up alongside a small dedicated team. Currently serving 1000+ paying members and 110k monthly visitors, managing 2TB of user content with a highly relational data model that supports complex artist/album/track relationships.

On the technical side, we were early adopter of Next.js Server Components to optimize performance for complex relational queries. Combined with aggressive caching, pagination, and React Suspense, we maintain a responsive user experience despite deeply nested data dependencies.

Some interesting technical challenges we've tackled:

• Implemented multi-currency PayPal commerce supporting both Personal and Business accounts, balancing platform accessibility with checkout experience

• Implemented a serverless audio transcoding pipeline using AWS Lambda and Step Functions to orchestrate multi-file album processing, handling memory-intensive operations with automatic retry logic

• Built a comprehensive fraud detection and mitigation system with tiered security responses and a Slack-based admin CLI for rapid response

• Manage the full infrastructure stack: ECS deployments, Lambda functions, Postgres with Redis job queues, and Cloudflare CDN

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, AWS (ECS, Lambda, Step Functions), PostgreSQL, Redis, Go, Pulumi, Cloudflare

Served as technical leader for a 6-person core UI team supporting 300k+ customers across Shippo's shipping label creation and order management dashboards, with influence across the 30-engineer frontend organization.

Key accomplishments:

• Led a ground-up rebuild of the order management dashboard, migrating from a legacy Redux/Saga architecture to modern React hooks with MUI DataGrid. Used feature flags for a zero-downtime migration affecting 100% of web users.

• Drove a cultural shift from QA-owned to engineer-owned Playwright testing, which eliminated weekly production errors that had been eroding customer and leadership confidence. These patterns were adopted by multiple teams across the org.

• Spearheaded organization-wide TypeScript strict mode adoption across 30+ engineers, improving type safety and development velocity.

• Provided technical leadership through architecture reviews, code reviews, and mentorship while managing cross-functional coordination with PM, design, and engineering leadership.

• Spearheaded the redevelopment of the order management front-end, enhancing user experience and performance.

• Collaborated with product and design teams to accurately implement features, ensuring alignment with the overall vision.

• Championed type safety and reusable React components, fostering a culture of quality and efficiency among developers.

Software development in a highly collaborative full-stack team of senior developers. TypeScript, Python, Vue.js, Node.js, Flask.