Artist · Craftsman · Mercenary
Full-stack, infrastructure, whatever it takes. Pick up the work, figure it out, move on.
No drama. No juniors. No slides.
2010 · Chicago
A national pharmacy chain needed a new business tool to replace what ATG ecommerce shipped out of the box. Built it cutting-edge for the time: Firefox-only, -moz- prefixes, flexbox before the spec landed. Team got reassigned. Sole lead inherited it, rearchitected from scratch, then quit mid-build. Inherited the rearchitecture — half-assembled, no handoff. Figured out what he was in the middle of. Shipped it.
2026
Pharmacy payment reconciliation system, mothballed mid-rewrite. Aligning PBM submissions (ScriptCycle et al.) with ACH payments, generating EDI and NACHA output, encrypting and verifying payments with the bank. The pipeline was developer-managed: someone called when payments were ready, a developer ran it by hand. Half the codebase wired for multi-tenant. The other half assumed one run at a time. Neither half knew about the other. Completed the rewrite. Automated the pipeline. Nobody calls a developer anymore.
Diagnose the drag, fix the root cause, ship a path forward. Not a rewrite proposal — running software.
Find the actual bottleneck. Profile it, fix it, measure it. Not the one that looks bad in the flame chart.
Architecture to deploy. TypeScript, Go, React, Next.js, infrastructure. Pick the right tool, not the fashionable one.
The software your team needs but nobody wants to build. Developer platforms, admin systems, internal APIs.
30 minutes. No deck. Just the problem.