Experience
Where the production habits come from.
Four years inside a Fortune-100 engineering org, then every day since inside businesses that run on my own code.
Starbucks — Application Developer I → II
Jun 2021 — Oct 2025 · promoted to II, Dec 2022
Full-stack application development and Azure infrastructure for mission-critical ERP and store-development applications serving multi-user enterprise teams.
Full-stack application work
- Built and maintained React frontends with Node.js/Express backends and MongoDB, in an Agile/Scrum SDLC with code review, source control, and automated build/test standards.
- Administered and optimized SQL Server databases — schema design, indexing, stored procedures, and query tuning — supporting application and reporting needs.
- Migrated a production backend off Cosmos DB and a Redis cache onto MongoDB — simplified the stack and produced real cost savings, a tradeoff I can defend line by line.
- Implemented an Express Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) pattern to keep SSO tokens off the client, and led a React Router v5 → v6 upgrade.
- Integrated enterprise SSO: Passport.js + SAML federated against Starbucks' Microsoft identity provider — SAML request handling, relay state, home realm discovery. The fiddly parts.
- Built integrations against the Box API (Electronic Lease Library, Store Image Gallery), plus Twilio and Mailgun.
- Developed custom Apache NiFi processors for data ingestion and transformation supporting ERP integrations — approved by the enterprise architecture team for production deployment, a high bar internally.
Cloud & infrastructure (Azure)
- Ran the app across Azure App Service and a fleet of Linux VMs, configured alongside the cloud and firewall teams; React frontend on two VMs behind a load balancer, Node processes managed with PM2.
- Designed the network so the backend API was never publicly exposed: frontend/backend VM segmentation with private NSG rules, backend reachable only from the frontend subnet via private IP inside the VNET.
- Azure Front Door and CDN at the edge — routing, caching, SSL termination, WAF.
- CI/CD through Azure DevOps and GitHub; monitoring and telemetry dashboards in Datadog and Splunk.
Security
- Produced cloud-security review artifacts: architecture diagrams covering components, data flows, open ports, and security configuration.
- Performed SQL-injection hardening across frontend and backend as part of enterprise security review.
Leadership & recognition
- Tier-3 escalated production support for SSO, integration, and infrastructure issues spanning multiple teams.
- Mentored junior developers, coordinated offshore collaboration, and built reusable backend modules and architectural patterns other teams adopted.
Bravo Award (2024) — built a Next.js + MongoDB application adopted company-wide to host the annual Hackweek event.
AFO Tech (All For One) — Founder & Software Developer
Phoenix / Cave Creek, AZ · Oct 2025 — present
Web design and marketing-automation agency, run as a one-person delivery team across concurrent client projects — scoping, architecture, build, deployment, and production support. A fleet of production client sites on a custom Eleventy/CodeStitch stack, chosen deliberately for speed, security, and SEO over heavy CMS platforms. Productized GoHighLevel services: CRM pipelines, review funnels, missed-call text-back, AI lead intake. Modern AI-assisted development workflow throughout (Claude Code, MCP, agent orchestration).
McCool's Pool Service — Co-owner & engineer
Arizona · ongoing
The technical half of a real operating company: 180+ recurring accounts, a field team of technicians, and an operations platform I built — technician portal (Next.js + MongoDB, role-based, PWA), job scheduling and dispatch, payroll and invoicing workflows, admin review, performance dashboards, and a live AI lead-intake bot.
Credentials
Education & recognition
Education
B.S., Software Engineering
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ
Recognition
Bravo Award, Starbucks (2024)
Company-wide adoption of the Hackweek platform.
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