Software Engineer, Tallahassee, FL
I build the systems that carry vehicle titles and liens between lenders and state DMVs.
Full-stack software engineer with four years building, testing, and operating enterprise systems across a large multi-application platform.
Owns services end to end — design, test-first development, AWS/Kubernetes deployment, and production support — and builds AI-assisted engineering tooling used daily.
Strong focus on backend services, API integrations, database performance, legacy modernization, and reliable delivery.
Software Engineer · Tallahassee, FL
2022 – Present
Earlier experience
Before I wrote code, I spent 14 years in restaurants and customer service: running food at an Italian trattoria, managing a Dunkin’, taking Xbox support calls and working packed bars on Friday nights. Most engineers come to the job straight from a classroom. My path ran through busy dining rooms, where I learned to stay calm when everything lands at once, to explain a problem to someone who is frustrated, and to care whether the person on the other end leaves happy. That is the background I bring to every system I build: I build for the people who use it, and I do my best work under pressure.
Server
I joined Honeybelle as part of its opening staff. Those first weeks were chaotic: a new menu, new systems and a front of house still finding its rhythm. I drew on my years of restaurant experience to help set up routines for side work and for communicating with the kitchen, and the floor ran smoother for it. Being there from day one showed me how much it takes to get a new business on its feet.
2022
Server · previously Bartender
I worked at Tommy Bahama while taking classes at Palm Beach State College, picking up shifts around my course schedule. It was a busy restaurant and a good way to pay my way through school. The management team changed often while I was there, so I learned to hold my own standards steady no matter who was running the floor.
2021 – 2022
Exterior Maintenance Technician
Working at Westwood was my initial attempt at getting out out of the restaurant industry. I was in charge of maintaining the exteriors of model homes and inventory homes for major homebuilders like Lennar, Meritage and Mattamy. This would involve traveling to various properties in south florida and working out of a trailer to do pressure washing and window cleaning as needed, also replacing light bulbs and ac filters. The company I worked for struggled after the Covid-19 pandemic and had to let go of several people including me. I ended up going back to Duffy's full time.
2018 – 2020
Server · previously Bartender
I worked at Duffy's for about three and a half years, I worked at three different locations and was offered a management position several times. I never accepted any supervisory position because i had no interest in pursuing a career in restaurant management
2017 – 2021
Bartender · previously Server, Expeditor, Line Cook
I started working at Chili's as an expeditor, after working there for six months I was promoted to a server position. After being a server for eight months I was promoted to bartender. I worked as a bartender for a little over a year before moving on to a different company
2015 – 2017
Xbox Customer Service Representative
Teleperformance was both the coolest and the toughest job I've had. Saying I worked for Xbox never got old, but call center work is draining: back-to-back calls, tight handle-time targets and a lot of frustrated gamers. I took advantage of unlimited overtime and at one point worked up to 90 hours a week (not recommended). It was also my first real IT experience. Walking customers through connection problems taught me a surprising amount about how networking works: routers, ports, NAT types and why a console can't reach Xbox Live.
2014 – 2015
General Manager · previously Shift Leader, Team Member
When I started working at Dunkin Donuts, it was for the grand opening of a brand-new store. Two weeks after the store opened, I was promoted from a Team Member position to being a Shift Leader. After a year in that position, I was given my own store and promoted to General Manager. After one and a half years in that position, I realized that restaurant management wasn't going to be my career, so I moved on
2012 – 2014
Expeditor · previously Food Runner, Busser
Grande's was my first job, I started here as a busser when I was 17 years old. I worked my way up to food runner and then eventually became the expeditor for the restaurant. As the expeditor i was in charge of making sure every order reached the table exactly to the customer's specifications and in a timely fashion
2008 – 2012
Palm Beach State College
William T. Dwyer High School
01 / 07
A League of Legends reference with searchable champions and items, a drag-and-drop build tester that recalculates stats and ability damage, and an item guessing game. The live app reads and writes its data in CockroachDB through Prisma.
02 / 07
Llama 3.1 8B fine-tuned with QLoRA to write rap lyrics in my own voice, from a dataset built on my roughly 97-song catalog. A Custom GPT given the same data wrote the songs on the Suno playlist.
03 / 07
My barebones attempt at a custom AI harness: an Electron desktop app where a model can search, read and patch code in a local workspace, with every change waiting on my approval.
04 / 07Current project
A Magic: The Gathering rules engine in Rust, built as the training environment for a reinforcement learning model that will learn to play the game. It loads real cards and plays the opponent with a heuristic AI; it is still under construction, and training starts once it is complete.
05 / 07
A keyboard-friendly task list built with React 19 and TypeScript. Tasks are saved in the browser, mistakes can be undone, and it follows your system's light or dark theme.
06 / 07
A Pokédex browser that looks up a Pokémon and shows its artwork and stats, built in React with Bootstrap and Sass.
07 / 07
A hangman word game with an on-screen keyboard and a drawn gallows, built with React and Next.js.
