Software engineer with a civil engineering PhD.

I came up through civil engineering — undergrad at Eastern Kentucky, a few years on $40M–$200M industrial site designs, then a PhD at CU Boulder on how construction craft workers read 2D drawings. Seven peer-reviewed papers came out of it, an artificial neural network now used statewide by the Colorado DOT, and an open-source eye-tracking app that's still cited.

I left academia for software in 2019. At NCCER I owned Single Sign-On across the entire customer-facing surface. At SalesRiver I lead a team of six and took the platform from Seed through Series A — including a consolidation of ten single-tenant apps into one multi-tenant SaaS in a single hour of scheduled downtime, a 60% cut in AWS infrastructure costs via Terraform, and a white-label transformation that drove $800K+ in new ARR.

Off-hours I serve on the board of Enrich, a Madison County, KY social enterprise that employs people with alternative resumes — recovery, homelessness, reentry. I'm also building Shipyard (a Claude Code plugin that autonomously works a GitHub issue backlog) and Lightwork (a volunteer-coordination app for community organizations). Most of this portfolio site was built by Shipyard, not by me.