About Me

I am a passionate and results-oriented software developer with over 18 years of experience crafting full-stack solutions. While I excel at tackling complex frontend challenges, ideating innovative approaches, and delivering polished, user-friendly UIs, I have contributed to backends in many roles, developing API endpoints, integrating databases, and building CI/CD deployment solutions. Throughout my career, I have been an integral contributor to the teams and organizations I've joined, driving consistent performance, pioneering cutting-edge technologies, and optimizing systems for efficiency and conversions.

I design and build dynamic UI features and components and APIs to support them for applications using tools and technologies such as Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, FastAPI, and Tailwind CSS. Beyond my professional experience, I am an enthusiastic AI/ML explorer, hobbyist, and creator, exploring reactive generative AI, agentic tooling, and context-driven prompting to create the next generation of tools, user interfaces, and experiences online.

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Ambassador of Aloha

One of my great joys has been serving my community for over a decade as a mentor, water safety lead, musical instructor, surf therapy coach, code teacher, and more, as a volunteer with organizations that serve foster youth, at-risk kids healing from trauma, as well as children with special needs.

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Technical Skills

Core Dev Focus

Next.jsReactTypeScriptJavaScriptFramer MotionTailwind CSSgitVercelGitHub ToolsCSS3HTML5AnimationRest APIsNode.jsExpressFastAPITanStack QueryPhotoshopFigmaShadcnJIRAAWSEC2S3Google AnalyticsA/B TestingConversion OptimizationSEOe-commerce

Competent Experience

PrismaPostgresMaterial UIBootstrapAmplifyReduxMochaChai.jsJestLaravelPHPMySQLSQLGraphQLMongoDBFlaskNest.jsJenkinsSolidityethers.jsweb3.jsFoundryStripe APIPython

Recent Exploration

OpenAI APIGemini APIOllamaLangChainMCP

Projects

I love building amazing user experiences and have had the opportunity to recently build out the front-end UI of some amazing user-facing projects from blank slate and beautiful graphics in a Figma file to fully usable, playable, or interactive online experiences. Here are a few below, some are no longer in business (deprecated/archived).

Work Experience

Jul 2025 - Present

Full Stack Developer - Contractor

Independent contractor delivering full-stack solutions for Tallo.com, Kaikai Kiki Marketplace, Numa Pit, and other clients.

Deliver full-stack solutions in PHP, TypeScript, Next.js, React, WordPress, and Payload CMS, plus Web3 features, technical SEO, and scalable architectures across content platforms, real-time auctions, and multilingual NFT marketplaces

Enhanced NFT marketplace drops and homepage UX, developed auction registration and live bidding experiences, and integrated wallets, Shopify/Crossmint, minting, and eligibility

Optimized inventories with virtualized grids and infinite scroll, supported EN/JA/ZH i18n, and upgraded Next.js and accessibility

Use Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools to review code quality, assist optimizations, and support RAG content and automated content pipelines

Build scalable user experiences and Web3 solutions while modernizing legacy systems and driving measurable growth

Own the MarTech and CMS stack at Tallo, integrating Google APIs (Search Console, Analytics), AWS (CloudFront, S3, WAF & Shield, IAM, Elastic Beanstalk), and technical SEO (Core Web Vitals, schema markup, indexability, crawl budget)

Architected a headless content platform using Payload CMS 3, Next.js, PostgreSQL, and React Router with 30+ reusable blocks, automated WordPress-to-Payload migrations, S3 media sync, and production-ready SEO

Aug 2024 - Jun 2025

Software Engineer - PropertyLens

Company that provides home buyers with comprehensive property risk assessment reports, along with a SaaS platform to select a report and view aggregated data points on risks, hazards, permit history, etc.

Developed and enhanced pages, features, and components for the main website (propertylens.com) and SaaS dashboard (my.propertylens.com)

Developed custom API endpoints using Next.js and integrated third-party APIs

Designed and implemented interactive UI elements for the PropertyLens platform

Transformed design prototypes into responsive, user-friendly web interfaces and clean, maintainable code with a focus on performance and accessibility

Code reviews, bug fixes and testing

Apr 2022 - Aug 2024

Software Developer - NiftyKit

Web3 technology company that provided no-code tools for creators and brands to launch and manage NFT projects with a no-code SaaS platform.

Developed new pages, features, and UI components for NFT SaaS platform (app.niftykit.com) and multiple client sites

Coded and unit tested Solidity contracts for 2 internal apps

Translated Figma designs, mockups & ideas into accessible, responsive web presence across mobile, tablet and desktop browsers

Collaborated with clients to define solution requirements for custom components & single-page applications (SPAs)

Code reviews, bug fixes and testing

Jul 2021 - Apr 2023

Software Developer - Freelance

As a contract software developer, I created, managed and updated web applications for clients.

Ran A/B tests and optimized user acquisition funnels while mentoring teams and partnering with marketing

Built Web3 donation hubs and NFT-for-charity solutions for non-profits supporting foster youth and trauma recovery

Modernized React codebases (v15 to v16), REST APIs, and MySQL databases for volunteer data serving thousands of users

Explored new technologies like Web3 development and Solidity

Integrated third-party tools and components into applications

Partnered with development team members on product development and application support plans

Mar 2020 - Jul 2021

Frontend Engineer - Tillster, Inc.

Technology company that provides a unified digital ordering and customer engagement platform for quick-service restaurants.

Led UI development on single-page application ordering flows for Burger King Germany and Popeyes Spain kiosk software

Improved UX by developing, testing and iterating UI components across kiosk touchscreen platforms

Played an integral role in developing new UI/UX for touchscreen kiosks serving multiple international clients (e.g., Popeyes (Spain), Burger King (US, UK, Germany, Spain), Wendy's (UK))

May 2019 - Mar 2020

Senior Web Developer - Launchify.io

Full-service marketing company that develops and scales e-commerce brands, primarily in the health and wellness sector.

Optimized UI for lead generation and increased user engagement based on advertising campaign traffic

Increased user progression by designing, developing, testing and iterating dynamic, mobile-first, responsive components across multiple sites

Created multiple sales funnel pages (SPAs) for e-commerce brands to pair with new ad campaigns

Converted ideas and content into graphics and mobile-first, responsive websites, single-page applications and landing pages

Provided frontend and back-end development using PHP, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Next.js 8, and React 15/16

Developed e-commerce solutions for multiple microsites and properties

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If you're looking for a full-time/part-time developer or contract-to-hire developer feel free to reach out with some context.

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