Summary

Senior Software Engineer and Cloud Architect with 20+ years of full-cycle development experience designing and delivering enterprise systems at scale. Deep expertise in C#/.NET, AWS (ECS Fargate, Lambda, App Runner), Python, and AI/ML integrations including RAG pipelines, semantic search, and LLM-driven workflows. Proven track record architecting cloud infrastructure, reducing operational costs, and shipping production AI systems for financial applications. Seeking fully remote senior engineering, architecture, or AI/ML roles.

Experience

Prophit Investments — Technical Lead / Senior Software Engineer · Waimea, HI (Remote)
— Present
  • Architected a high-performance RAG data pipeline integrating with Google Vertex AI Search, transforming 10,000+ lines of nested JSON financial data into optimized, LLM-friendly Markdown — reducing hallucination risk and improving retrieval accuracy in financial analysis queries.
  • Built a RESTful API and semantic search engine using sentence-transformers and cosine similarity; persisted vector embeddings in SQL Server for high-performance retrieval.
  • Containerized the full stack (Docker Compose) including a .NET 8 Web API, FastAPI service, and SQL Server; deployed to AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate, and App Runner for scalable serverless orchestration.
  • Designed CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions with HTTPS termination (ACM), ALB path-based routing, and zero-downtime deployments to AWS ECS — including VPC, IAM roles, and ECR image management.
  • Built Python ETL Lambda pipeline processing financial documents, writing outputs to AWS S3 and Google Cloud Storage with credentials managed via AWS Secrets Manager.
  • Developed a Next.js 15 web application with Clerk authentication, custom OAuth redirect routes, and PM2/nginx deployment on Ubuntu.
Independent IT Contractor · Remote
Early 2024 — Jul 2024
  • Migrated a publishing company from legacy web infrastructure to WordPress, reducing monthly hosting and maintenance costs by $300+.
  • Designed and developed automation tools for a technology client using Microsoft Graph API to streamline business workflows.
  • Managed IT infrastructure for a small business client using NinjaRMM and Azure, including monitoring, maintenance, and support operations.
W.M. Keck Observatory — Business Applications Developer · Waimea, HI
2022 — 2024
  • Maintained and enhanced financial systems built on Microsoft Dynamics SL, MS-SQL Server, and ReqLogic — performing debugging, code modification, and iterative improvements.
  • Automated complex invoicing workflows by developing Blazor web applications integrated with GPT agents and Microsoft Graph API, significantly reducing manual processing time.
  • Delivered financial reporting dashboards using SSRS and Power BI with advanced T-SQL, enabling real-time monitoring of operational and financial KPIs.
  • Documented solution architectures, business logic flows, and system specifications to support QA validation and stakeholder reviews.
Duvera Financial DBA Easypay Finance — Director of IT | Senior Software Engineer | DBA · Vista, CA
2002 — 2022
  • Joined as an early employee at a fintech startup and grew with the company over 20 years, ultimately overseeing IT systems processing $100M+ annually — architecting and scaling infrastructure from the ground up.
  • Architected AWS VPC infrastructure and migrated legacy on-premises systems to cloud, reducing infrastructure costs by 80% and improving scalability and disaster recovery posture.
  • Designed and maintained secure SQL Server databases with advanced indexing, query optimization, and encryption — ensuring high availability and regulatory compliance across lending operations.
  • Automated underwriting workflows, compliance reporting pipelines, and daily operational processes using C#, ASP.NET, and T-SQL.
  • Managed IT department including direct reports, vendor relationships, hardware procurement, and technology roadmap from startup through $100M+ growth.

Education

  • Bachelor of Arts — University of New Hampshire