Project Archive

The complete collection.Projects and notable builds.

Payments, platforms, startups, and the experiments along the way.Explore the work, from early experiments to production platforms.

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Shopify · 2026

Shopify Payments: Card-Present Gateway

Helped build and productionize Shopify's own card-present payment gateway, creating a foundation for provider-agnostic in-person payments.

  • Separated payment creation, continuation, and result mapping into clearer orchestration workflows.
  • Refactored provider integrations into dedicated request clients and simplified card-present payload construction and result handling.
  • Added provider-routing controls and rollout safeguards, with operational guidance for incident response.
  • Contributed to feature parity and production readiness for the initial merchant rollout.
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Payments Platform
  • EMV
  • POS
  • API Design
  • Systems Design

2025 - Present

Staffed AI Services

Built staffing and automation services with web-focused, cloud-native deployments.

  • Delivered productized services that combine custom workflows with AI-assisted operations.
  • Shipped and operated cloud-native deployments for speed, reliability, and iteration.
  • Focused on practical automation outcomes for small and medium businesses.
  • PHP
  • GCP
  • Cloud Run
  • SQL
  • Bootstrap
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript

Shopify · 2025

Optimize Payments Platform Performance for Migrations

Restored throughput parity during concurrent payment migrations in critical checkout paths.

  • Worked on performance bottlenecks that caused elevated error rates under migration load.
  • Helped recover near-baseline throughput for both third-party and first-party migration tracks.
  • Improved platform confidence for flash-sale and peak-volume merchant workloads.
  • Performance Engineering
  • Observability
  • Load Testing
  • Ruby
  • SQL
  • Kafka

Shopify · 2024 - 2025

Unified Refund API

Built foundations and led rollout of unified Refund API support to third-party payment providers.

  • Brought third-party refunds into the unified processing flow with parity for retries and error handling.
  • Shipped operational monitoring and reliability safeguards for high-traffic events.
  • Drove rollout to full traffic and reduced migration risk for future payment-method expansions.
  • Contributed to a single entrypoint and flow structure for refunds in Payments API.
  • Established reusable patterns later applicable to captures and voids.
  • Helped create a cleaner path toward consolidation of legacy refund code paths.
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Systems Design
  • Refunds
  • Observability
  • Incident Response
  • SQL
  • Kafka

Shopify · 2023 - 2024

Redesign Payments API for Third-Party Gift Card Support

Delivered model foundations and expanded orchestration to support asynchronous redeemables (e.g., third-party gift cards) with multiple charges in one payment.

  • Enabled split-payment patterns needed for third-party gift card support.
  • Helped evolve orchestration so payment attempts became a stronger source of truth.
  • Supported broad rollout while preserving stability of existing payment flows.
  • Helped support gift cards and stored-value style flows with more flexible orchestration.
  • Contributed to new instruction/state record patterns for multi-part payments.
  • Supported migration and backfill readiness needed by downstream redeemables projects.
  • Product
  • UX
  • Data
  • Ruby
  • Distributed Systems
  • SQL
  • Systems Design

Shopify · 2023

Plan and Conduct Payments Platform Game Day

Prepared Payments Platform for peak events through scenario testing and failure-readiness exercises.

  • Supported game-day planning and execution across engineering and partner teams.
  • Helped identify failure modes and convert findings into actionable follow-up work.
  • Strengthened incident readiness ahead of BFCM and major payments launches.
  • Game Days
  • Incident Management
  • Load Testing
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Observability

Shopify · 2022 - 2023

Lift & Shift of SPI Buyer Transaction Emails

Drove systems design, project scoping, and prototyping to migrate SPI buyer transaction emails; priorities shifted before rollout.

  • Completed systems design and scoping for ownership shift from partner systems to Shop.
  • Prototyped routing and experience alignment across buyer app surfaces.
  • Effort was deprioritized prior to production rollout.
  • Shop Pay Installments
  • Messaging
  • Shop
  • Product Integration
  • Email Systems

Shopify · 2022 - 2023

Prequalify for Installments on Product Pages

Prototyped moving installment prequalification earlier in the buyer journey on PDP surfaces.

  • Supported up-funnel installment eligibility UX exploration before checkout.
  • Contributed to product/technical framing aimed at improved conversion outcomes.
  • Built a working prototype and experimentation plan; initiative did not proceed to launch.
  • Shop Pay Installments
  • Checkout
  • Product Experimentation
  • UX
  • Analytics

Shopify · 2022

Shop Pay Installments BFCM 2022 Preparation

Prepared SPI infrastructure and operational readiness for peak BFCM traffic with Affirm.

  • Supported load-validation, resiliency checks, and partner readiness planning.
  • Contributed to incident-response preparation and game-day style readiness workflows.
  • Helped improve confidence in platform capacity for high-volume seasonal demand.
  • BFCM Readiness
  • Load Testing
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Incident Response
  • Shop Pay Installments

Shopify · 2022

Shop Pay Installments Loss Remediation

Contributed to remediation efforts addressing major SPI loss drivers and risk controls.

  • Supported initiatives focused on reducing fraud-related and negative-balance losses.
  • Helped improve operational visibility and mitigation readiness around loss events.
  • Worked within a cross-functional effort to stabilize installment-loss economics.
  • Risk
  • Fraud Mitigation
  • Payments Operations
  • Shop Pay Installments
  • Data Analysis

Indeed · 2021 - 2022

Indeed Identity Platform

Maintained authentication and identity services serving job seekers and employers.

  • Contributed to authentication and account flows across the platform.
  • Supported stable, secure identity experiences at scale.
  • Worked across backend services and frontend product surfaces.
  • React
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • Spring Boot

Nerd Nibble · 2020 - 2022

Web Appetizer

Built a serverless SaaS ordering platform for restaurants with payment and POS-style workflows.

  • Created customer-facing menu customization and ordering experiences.
  • Built a POS-style interface for receiving and managing new orders.
  • Implemented real-time order updates using WebSocket connections.
  • AWS Lambda
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Stripe
  • DynamoDB
  • Cognito
  • S3
  • Serverless Framework

University of Michigan - Dearborn · 2021

Lambda Eats SaaS (Master's Project)

Built a serverless online ordering SaaS platform as a graduate capstone project.

  • Designed a multi-tenant model to support many shops and menu configurations.
  • Delivered tablet-facing order intake and merchant workflows.
  • Validated serverless architecture patterns for cost and scalability.
  • AWS Lambda
  • React
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • Bootstrap

Ford Motor Company · 2020 - 2021

Ford Pay Troubleshooting Portal

Led development of a support tool that reduced manual troubleshooting for payment journeys.

  • Enabled business teams to inspect payment journey failures without direct log/database access.
  • Improved support speed and confidence with purpose-built diagnostics.
  • Drove delivery as a lead engineer across backend and frontend concerns.
  • Spring Framework
  • Spring Boot
  • React
  • Java
  • TypeScript

Ford Motor Company · 2019 - 2021

Ford Payment Library

Led an embedded payment library used in secure Ford web payment experiences.

  • Created reusable secure payment capabilities for multiple Ford properties.
  • Supported reservations and digital purchase flows in consumer experiences.
  • Balanced developer ergonomics with secure-by-default integration patterns.
  • Spring Framework
  • Spring Boot
  • React
  • Java
  • JavaScript

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Aircraft Part USA

Built inventory search with secure CSV upload for data updates.

  • Implemented searchable inventory experiences for operations teams.
  • Added secure data ingestion paths for ongoing catalog maintenance.
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • SQL

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Basic Online Ordering System

Built a React + Spring Boot ordering system with integrated Stripe payments.

  • Implemented cart, checkout, and payment processing flows.
  • Delivered end-to-end order lifecycle support in a compact stack.
  • React
  • Spring Boot
  • Java
  • Stripe

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Kanboard Task Manager

Built a Kanban-style project management web application.

  • Implemented board/list/card interactions and state management.
  • Supported team workflow visibility and task tracking.
  • React
  • Spring Boot
  • Java
  • SQL

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Lewiston Lodge E-commerce Website

Built gift card purchase and email fulfillment flows for a local restaurant.

  • Enabled online checkout and digital gift card operations.
  • Supported small-business digital revenue with practical tooling.
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Stripe

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Photography Management Portal

Built a photo album management portal for photographers.

  • Enabled album organization, asset access, and portfolio workflows.
  • Focused on creator-friendly management UX.
  • Vue.js
  • Node.js

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Resume Website

Built a full-stack resume site with job submissions, cover-letter generation, and downloads.

  • Created an interactive pipeline for job opportunity intake.
  • Automated document generation and resume asset delivery.
  • Vue.js
  • TypeScript
  • Bootstrap