Senior Full Stack Engineer at GovRecover
Adding features to and improving the backend services behind GovRecover.org, expanding the service to new US states and their particular processes for claiming property.
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Senior Full Stack Engineer on Upwork
Back to freelancing as a one-man software team with front- and back-end expertise. Recent projects: Finaware, a SaaS platform investigating financial crimes with LLM and vision models processing bank statements; Teetag, a WooCommerce t-shirt shop with Printify integration; and an internal inventory dashboard for Coverland built on Retool and Supabase.
Senior Software Developer at Afloat
Afloat is a local gifting app and a Shopify marketplace for local businesses. A new REST API and Shopify integration cut the manual steps in half, sign-up for new businesses got 80% shorter, and Sentry instrumentation trimmed log output by 60%.
Senior Software Developer at Updraft
A three-month contract that turned into a full-time position with the client. Translated a legacy Django–Shopify integration to Remix (removing 80% of the code), moved Python code to Node.js, and lifted the AWS backend to GCP — cutting deployment time from 30+ minutes to 2–4.
Senior Software Developer at Material
LRW rebranded to Material, a modern marketing services company. Transformed the Yamaha Motor US website onto an AWS backend and a Next.js frontend — a Storybook-driven workflow halved the time from design to implemented UI — and maintained Touchpoint Dashboard until its sunset, planning and executing the shutdown of all of its AWS infrastructure.
Senior Software Developer at LRW
LRW acquired Strativity and kept me on as lead engineer for Touchpoint Dashboard.
Software Consultant at Strativity Group
Touchpoint Dashboard was acquired by Strativity Group, and I was hired full-time to keep leading its development.
Technical Lead at Touchpoint Dashboard
Took over as lead developer during the prototype phase and grew the Django app into a selling SaaS customer-journey-mapping platform, leading up to four off-shore contractors. Moving the backend to AWS doubled performance and cut hosting costs by 90%; the frontend evolved from jQuery through Backbone to React along the way.
Software Developer at Screen Pilot
Built 20+ static and interactive landing pages for hospitality and travel digital promotions, and designed an ad-impression-to-call-center tracking system used on a dozen client sites.
Went freelance as a web developer
Started out self-employed on oDesk (now Upwork): 44 completed contracts, 13,540 logged hours for 36 clients, and a 4.93-out-of-5 rating over seven years.
Software Developer at Evolution MC
Postgres stored procedures sped up the PHP backend for an online poker affiliates program by 80% while cutting code complexity in half.
Freelance Translator
Translated 52 technical and historical documents, German to English.
Software Engineer at Informative Graphics
Built a browser version (ActiveX on IE) of the in-house CAD/3D image viewer, removing the need to install a Windows application, and integrated the viewer with five third-party CMS systems.
Software Developer at TeraCom
Self-employed in Potsdam: improved call center operations for E-Plus, a German cell phone provider, with digital forms; wrote a point-of-sale Windows app used in five local retail stores; and sped up the phone sales process by three days with a credit-check update.
Computer Instructor at Förderkreis Berlin
Taught computer beginner courses to students of all ages, with on-premise tutoring and test proctoring on the side.
Software Developer intern at multiSYStems Berlin
Developed systems software for L3, an experimental operating system, and wrote printer drivers for Hewlett-Packard laser printers.