Shopify · 2026
Confidential Project
Shipping features to the Shopify platform.
- More details to come.
Project Archive
All projects, beyond the featured case studies.Project history and notable builds.
A full archive sourced from the career context timeline, including platform work, startup builds, and notable product experiments.A career-wide archive sourced from project notes and timeline context.
Project Year
2026
Project Year
2025
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.
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.
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.
Project Year
2024
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.
Project Year
2023
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.
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.
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.
Project Year
2022
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.
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.
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.
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.
Project Year
2021
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Project
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.
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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.
Project
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.
Project
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.
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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.
The End
To be Continued...