Let's bring your idea to life — from concept to delivery
Web applications, native mobile, and the data architecture underneath — one senior engineer taking it from first sketch to live, with twenty-two years of doing it where failure gets audited.
Two minutes, eight questions — you'll get a straight read on whether it's worth a call. Or skip it and email me.
The distance between idea and live
Software rarely fails at the idea. It fails in the gap — the schema that can't take a second customer, the payments that don't reconcile, the launch that slips because nobody owns the whole thing. Concept to delivery means one person owning that gap, and still being there after it goes live.
Build & delivery
Web applications and native mobile, end to end. Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Stripe — shipped, deployed, instrumented.
Data architecture
Schema design, multi-tenancy, migrations, performance. Db2, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server.
Compliance by design
Payments, minors' data, audit trails, access control — built in from the start, never retrofitted.
StoryKinder
A subscription platform for branching children's books — authoring studio, reader library, and portable story engine, built as one system.
Kids never authenticate. Parents hold verifiable consent and can review, export, or delete everything behind a PIN. Author royalties pay out over Stripe Connect, guarded by invariant tests and a build check that fails CI if the wrong vocabulary enters payment code.
Systems currently running
StoryKinder
Subscription platform for branching children's books, with COPPA-shaped data modeling and a royalty pool paid over Stripe Connect.
TradePals
Eight certification and field-reference apps for skilled trades on shared infrastructure — a new trade launches without a new codebase.
Texas Seraphim
Pro basketball franchise platform, scoped and shipped as a dated deliverable on an architecture that anticipates what comes next.
Vengig
Three-sided live music marketplace with a browser-based DAW, designed so the supply side is valuable to itself first.
Twenty-two years, all of it regulated
Every environment on this list had auditors, uptime commitments, or both.
| Years | Sector | Role | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 — | Enterprise banking | Sr. Database Engineer | 24/7, SLA-bound |
| 2015–17 | Banking · consulting | Sr. Database Administrator | 200+ servers |
| 2014–15 | Management consulting | ETL / DW Consultant | 15+ person team |
| 2013–14 | Biologics & blood services | Interim CIO | FDA / HIPAA / SOX |
| 2011–13 | Biologics & blood services | Lead Database Engineer | ~300 databases |
| 2007–11 | Energy & pipelines | Database Administrator | Team of 6 |
| 2005–07 | Healthcare | Database Administrator | Clinical systems |
| 2003–05 | Defense & military health | Database & App Administrator | Worldwide installations |
Have something that needs to work correctly, not just demo well?
Tell me what you're building and where you think it's fragile. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so on the call.