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About

I build the systems that keep businesses running.

Payment flows, automations, queues, internal tooling, and the ongoing work of improving older codebases. I focus on the infrastructure that protects revenue and replaces manual effort with reliable software.

Recent Impact

  • Production stack maintained 4+ years Every part of a 40-person travel company — sales, operations, payments, ACH, contractor tools — runs on a platform I keep healthy and shipping every day.
  • Live platform migrations, no noticed downtime PHP 5.6 → 8, MySQL 5.7 → 8.4 LTS, CentOS 7 → Rocky Linux 9, and payments across TranSafe → Monetra → NMI — all delivered with the company still open for business.
  • Revenue-protecting automation Cancellation systems, payment notifications, NACHA-formatted ACH batches to M&T Bank, and financial workflows that replaced manual intervention with reliable software.
  • Measurable performance gains Brought key workflows from 5–10 seconds down to under one second, alongside ongoing refactoring that improved long-term maintainability.

Tech Stack

  • Core stack: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Linux, REST APIs
  • Systems work: queue processing, cron-driven jobs, caching layers, reporting, and operational tooling
  • Integrations: payment processors, SMS providers, email services, and internal platform APIs
  • Engineering habits: refactoring, documentation, bug prevention, security hardening, and performance optimization

Selected Systems

Patterns I’ve delivered repeatedly in production.

  • Automations that run without supervision Background workflows for cancellations, notifications, and routine processes that execute reliably around the clock.
  • Payment and financial infrastructure Processing integrations, encrypted financial data handling, and the supporting systems that protect revenue.
  • Internal platforms and admin tooling Tools for reservation management, contractor workflows, reporting, expense systems, and operational visibility.
  • Legacy modernization through steady refactoring Incremental cleanup that makes an older codebase faster, safer, and easier to ship from.

Work Style

  • Start from the business problem: understand what failure costs before designing the fix
  • Build systems, not patches: create the mechanism that prevents repeat work
  • Document while shipping: reduce fragility for future maintainers
  • Refactor as part of delivery: leave the codebase healthier than I found it, every time

Work History Snapshot

2022

Foundation and large-scale refactoring

Heavy modernization, infrastructure work, and the first PCI-conscious payment-processing integration.

2023

Feature growth and platform migration

New operational features, the PHP 5.6 → 8 migration, alert systems, and security-sensitive financial tooling.

2024

System enhancement and cleanup

Codebase health work — refactoring, deprecation removal, and broad system-wide improvements that paid down debt the next year leaned on.

2025

Infrastructure-heavy delivery

Queue-backed automation, SMS integration, and major performance gains, alongside steady refactoring across the platform.

2026

Orchestration platform and live cutovers

Built status.etadventures.com — a Python and Flask dashboard probing 13 ETA servers — plus a sudo-scoped, 1Password-injected agent-orchestration host. Customer portal modernization across NMI, and the MySQL 5.7 → 8.4 LTS and CentOS 7 → Rocky Linux 9 production cutovers.