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C4G Backend & Infrastructure

Built and shipped the team's first shared staging environment on AWS, then handed it over documented so the remaining developer could run it alone.

Infrastructure & deployment

• Designed and deployed a containerized Spring Boot backend to AWS ECS Fargate, with RDS MySQL, S3, an Application Load Balancer, ECR, IAM roles and CloudWatch logging, giving the team its first shared staging environment.
• Authored a multi-stage Dockerfile that cut image size by separating build and runtime stages, and established a repeatable deployment process the team adopted.
• Diagnosed a load balancer health check misconfiguration that was silently failing every deployment, reasoning from rollout behaviour back to threshold timing against application startup.

Security & identity

• Implemented HTTPS end to end for staging: generated the certificate signing request, coordinated issuance with Information Security, and configured TLS termination at the load balancer.
• Debugged and fixed OAuth redirect URI generation behind a reverse proxy, unblocking Microsoft Entra single sign-on on web and mobile after months of being blocked.
• Narrowed publicly exposed monitoring endpoints that were leaking configuration data on a public URL.

Application development

• Migrated photo storage from ephemeral container disk to Amazon S3 with a scoped IAM task role, preserving the existing API contracts so no frontend changes were needed.
• Implemented a scheduled job to close expired events, choosing a stored-status approach over read-time filtering to keep the database the single source of truth.

Collaboration & ownership

• Reviewed pull requests across backend and frontend, catching authorization gaps, cross-platform inconsistencies and merge conflicts before they reached production.
• Wrote the documentation for deployment, monitoring, certificate renewal, cost and known limitations, and led a handoff session so the remaining developer could maintain the environment independently.

Background

The short version: design came first, code came later, and the gap between them is where I like to work.

I have been fond of designing since I was fifteen. I would volunteer to make invitations, banners and flyers for family occasions, weddings, birthdays and my cousins' school projects. It was something I could give people before I had anything else to give.

There was a stretch when I was an out-of-school youth, and I really felt like I had fallen behind. I stepped back from my own education so my siblings could continue theirs. Around that time my mom and I started a bakery and pizzeria, and I handled everything on the front: the marketing, the banners and flyers and calling cards, the social media, even making the pizza boxes.

I finished high school as valedictorian and was accepted to five schools that offered me scholarships, though none were enough on their own. I shared my story online and my provincial government recognized it.

At Creighton University I started as a physics major on the engineering track. One of the requirements was a computer science class, and the moment I took my first one I fell in love, so I switched my major.

I know the reality of being in the margins, and I still consider myself part of it. I am not someone looking in from the outside. That is why my mission is to help the next generation find their voice and amplify it.

Skills

What I reach for, roughly in order of how often I use it.

Languages

Cloud & Infrastructure

Backend

Security & Identity

Frontend & Mobile

Game & Real-time 3D

AI & Data

Practice

Design

Contact

Open to software engineering and full-stack roles. The fastest way to reach me is email.

Selected live projects