Systems engineer · Freelance software developer · Applied AI builder
Production systems · AI engineering · Cloud automation · React Native · Chicago + Erie
ENTER THE ARCADE · LinkedIn · Email · Source
I build infrastructure that stays boring in production, AI that survives real constraints, and software that removes friction. The arcade above is a living memorial for my mother, Cathy: six original games, three deep branching story files, a six-track generative score, our real photo-booth portraits, and room for the memories still returning.
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A neon Colorado destruction brawler: clear five towers while defense drones attack. Keyboard and touch. |
A three-zone mountain platform run with patrols, checkpoints, dashes, and twenty-four tokens. |
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A hard three-room action dungeon with distinct enemies, circuit keys, a dash, and the Warden. |
A facade-climbing destruction game with 54 windows, collapsing towers, attack craft, and rooftop defenses. |
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A long-form platform adventure with breakable crates, hidden routes, moving lifts, and two keepsake tokens. |
A ranged citadel expedition with luminous bolts, a five-second ward, living compass, guardians, and a route back to dawn. |
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Three illustrated, locally saved branching files: horror, action, and mystery with evidence, changing stats, and multiple endings. |
Six evolving browser arrangements with a patient rave build, sub-heavy drop, synthetic formant voice, generated reverb, and no streams. |
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Six metaphorical chapters, local completion saves, recovered keepsakes, and an after-hours epilogue behind the last cabinet. |
Our real photo-booth portraits, her family-sourced life file, and the documented path from a $2.50 prototype to $5 all-you-can-play. |
| System | Current build | Mode |
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| Production engineering | Reliability, observability, and controlled change in a low-latency trading environment | Operating |
| Enterprise AI enablement | Claude + Slack + Jira + Confluence workflows and Git-backed configuration intelligence | Building |
| Freelance software | Practical product, automation, cloud, and data work for organizations that need outcomes | Available |
| Expense capture mobile | React Native iOS/Android app, signed PDF packages, AWS Lambda, and S3 | Field testing |
- Configuration intelligence: trade-server scans committed to Git so AI can expose drift, misalignment, and operational inconsistencies.
- Expense capture: mobile receipt capture through signed submission packages with a serverless AWS backend.
- Regulatory Q&A: turned a 225-page source into 800+ structured lookups in about 15 minutes for less than $4.
- Housing data: automated ingest, SQL storage, geocoding, and API exposure for 20k+ residential sales.
- Interactive infrastructure: AWS network diagram and EC2 / DB / S3 layout.
This reel refreshes twice daily through GitHub Actions. Each track selects the freshest item from a small pool of respected technical sources.
| Track | Fresh signal | Source |
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| AI practice | Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude | Simon Willison · Jul 28 |
| AI research | Do Models Fake Alignment Without Clear Consequences? | arXiv cs.AI · Jul 29 |
| Systems | Three stable kernels for Wednesday fix a single regression | LWN.net · Jul 29 |
| Architecture | Microsoft Three-Layer LLM Routing Architecture for AI Agents on AKS | InfoQ · Jul 29 |
| Edge & cloud | Post-quantum authentication to origins is now supported | Cloudflare Blog · Jul 29 |
Signal source pools
Applied AI: Simon Willison and OpenAI Developers.
Research: arXiv cs.AI and arXiv cs.LG.
Systems: LWN.net and Brendan Gregg.
Architecture: Martin Fowler and InfoQ.
Edge/cloud: Cloudflare Blog and AWS What's New.
 AWS |
 Terraform |
 Ansible |
 Docker |
 Linux |
 Python |
 TypeScript |
 React |
 Django |
 JavaScript |
 HTML5 |
 CSS3 |
 PostgreSQL |
 MySQL |
 SQLite |
 MongoDB |
 R |
 Bash |
 Git |
 GitHub |
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Engineering Systems engineering at a proprietary trading firm Current freelance software development and DevOps AI automation and engineering enablement Applied statistics and data products |
Outside the terminal Military veteran Tai chi and chi gong through the VA Humane society volunteer Amateur astronomy when the sky cooperates |
Education and training
Code Platoon, DevOps and Cloud Engineering, 2024
Code Platoon, Full Stack Software Engineering, 2023
Penn State, Applied Statistics Graduate Certificate, 2015
UC San Diego, B.A. Economics, 2011
San Diego Mesa College, A.A. Business Education, 2008
Chicago, IL + Erie, PA
Available for focused freelance software, automation, cloud, and applied AI work.