~ annales ~

Chronicles of labor

Apr 2026 — Present
Remote
Independent Consulting
Security & AI Engineering
  • ✦Advising teams on integrating AI coding agents into real codebases — safely, verifiably, at scale.
  • ✦Security reviews and reverse-engineering for legacy-system integrations.
  • ✦Building The Reliquary in the open.
Feb 2024 — Apr 2026
Remote
Comulate
Software Engineer
  • ✦Reverse-engineered proprietary APIs and auth flows for integration with legacy client systems.
  • ✦Built a large-scale scraping system for 20+ insurance carriers, cutting manual workflows by hours/month.
  • ✦Cut Jest CI costs by >90% by enforcing memory constraints and migrating to smaller runners.
  • ✦Reduced p99 GraphQL latency from 30s+ to under 3s via tracing and index work.
  • ✦Led a high-risk PostgreSQL instance upgrade during peak traffic with minimal downtime.
Dec 2021 — Feb 2024
USA
Independent Projects
Engineer · Builder · Mad Scientist
  • ✦Remote-controlled lawn mower in Rust + C on a Teensy MCU with custom cycloidal gearing.
  • ✦Pressure-fit, carbon-fiber 3D-printer toolhead — no fasteners, reduced mass.
  • ✦Experimental ECS event database for lightweight web services.
Aug 2016 — Dec 2021
NYC / SF
LiveRamp
Principal Product Security Engineer → Tech Lead / EM → Senior SWE
  • ✦Built the GitHub integration for automated security-centric code scanning.
  • ✦Led the migration from co-lo + AWS to Google Cloud for all full-stack teams.
  • ✦Architected a unified auth platform — SSO + API tokens — across the org.
  • ✦Ran engineering-wide security training; owned external pentest programs.
Oct 2010 — Aug 2016
Charlotte, NC / Wartberg, Austria
Steinbauer Performance
Full-Stack Software Engineer
  • ✦Lead engineer for all web apps. Reported to the president. Lived >1 year in Austria.
  • ✦Built the multi-currency, multilingual STEINBAUER storefront + CMS + newsletter.
  • ✦Vehicle-fleet streaming service in Go + gRPC, isomorphic UI in React/Redux/Node.
  • ✦OAuth2 endpoints with JWT + EC DSA for microservice auth.
  • ✦Led parent company ERP migration from Sage Office Line to Odoo.
Oct 2010 — Aug 2016
USA
ShiftSource
President · Full-Stack Engineer
  • ✦Real-estate app indexing Charlotte-Mecklenburg MLS with faceted search.
  • ✦NOAA-driven solar-energy estimator for Green Power South.
  • ✦Built, sold, and installed PC-based digital surveillance systems.
Sep 2008 — Oct 2010
USA
East 77 Contractors
Construction Manager
  • ✦Floor plans, construction drawings, site management.
Jan 2007 — Sep 2008
USA
Adams + Associates
CAD Technician · Graduate Architect
  • ✦3D models of 600,000 sqft shopping centers; full construction documents.
  • ✦Ruby plugin for SketchUp that automated parking-lot layout — saved 2–20 hrs/project.