Where I’ve been
Reverse-chronological, exactly as it happened — including the gap.
Senior Software Engineer · Gallopade
April 2024 – Present
Returned to Gallopade in a senior capacity, continuing to lead backend architecture on the CQRS and event-sourcing platform built in the earlier engagement below, now with a broader hand in the team's engineering practice.
- Java
- Spring Boot
- CQRS
- Axon Framework
- Kubernetes
- Azure
Full-Stack Engineer & SEO Strategist · Zero Latency Webster
May 2025 – April 2026
Built a high-performance, responsive web application from the ground up with Next.js, focused on a modern, minimalist UI, and optimized Core Web Vitals to consistently score 95+ on Google PageSpeed Insights across mobile and desktop. Implemented on-page and off-page SEO — JSON-LD structured data, semantic architecture, topical authority — driving first-page rankings for 50+ high-value keywords within six months of launch, and optimized early for AI-driven search and generative answers (Google SGE, ChatGPT).
- Next.js
- Technical SEO
- JSON-LD
- Core Web Vitals
Career break
October 2022 – March 2024
A gap in the timeline, stated plainly rather than explained away.
Full-Stack Developer · Gallopade
November 2021 – September 2022
Transitioned to Gallopade to craft a new K-12 product, owning both frontend and backend. Built the frontend in React.js and Tailwind CSS, and integrated Java Spring Boot with the CQRS pattern and the Axon Framework for an event-sourcing architecture, adding load balancing to optimize performance and scalability. Moved into DevOps: containerized the microservices with Docker and deployed to Azure with Kubernetes.
- React.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Java Spring Boot
- CQRS
- Axon Framework
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Azure
Backend Developer · Mentoring Minds
March 2021 – November 2022
At Mentoring Minds, a US-based ed-tech company, led the transition from a monolithic K-12 app using command architecture to a microservices architecture. Built optimized RESTful web services in Java Spring Boot, improved performance through targeted algorithmic work, and managed the seamless migration of legacy data between MySQL and MongoDB.
- Java Spring Boot
- Microservices
- REST
- MySQL
- MongoDB