I've spent 12 years in IT and software, the last three as a solutions architect at Alpha FMC. I'm the technical lead on client work for insurance and financial services firms like Goldman Sachs, Allianz, Lockton, and Mercer Advisors - joining sales for discovery and proofs of concept, designing the data and integration architecture, and leading a team of seven developers through to production. On my own time I build the mobile apps for thrown.party, an AI party planning platform that runs on MongoDB Atlas.
Wrote the Python (FastAPI) side on my own, replacing Coherent and Convr.io and standardizing carrier files in every format for Lockton's actuaries
Led the HIPAA-regulated app used daily by about 50 Allianz staff and 20 to 50 outside users
Leading the rebuild of the Board's applications, which see heavy use during elections
Technical discovery, proofs of concept, and client and executive demos - then owning the solution design and leading delivery through to production
RAG, embeddings and vector search, LLM fine-tuning and self-hosting, agents, and MCP - built on Claude, OpenAI, and Azure AI
MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas data modeling, JSON structure design, REST APIs, and integrations with client systems and services like Twilio
Unqork application architecture for insurance, financial services, and public-sector clients, including HIPAA-regulated workloads
AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53) and Microsoft Azure - certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Azure Administrator Associate
Python, FastAPI, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and React - with Git, Jira, Azure DevOps, Claude Code, and Cursor