The record

The work

Client builds, the systems I run for myself, the engines I measured and switched off, and the paper trail behind all of it. Every claim here is one I can defend with a receipt.

01Client build

Selected work

So Lit City

Launching soon

A full rebuild for a Salt Lake City event production company. The homepage is a run of show: you scroll one event night in order, from load-in to last song.

Behind it sits a multi-tenant client portal where row level security is the tenant boundary, not application filtering. Statically generated, deployed straight to AWS.

  • Next.js 15
  • Tailwind v4
  • Supabase + RLS
  • SST on AWS

So Lit City2026Web design & build

Each beat of the night is its own scroll-scrubbed sequence, pinned to the moment it describes.

02Own systems

Things I built for myself, then had to keep running.

One private operating system in three layers. It trades real money, reconciles real accounts, and pages me when it breaks, which is a better test than any side project I could describe.

Axiom

The second brain. Journal, plans, memory and metrics on Next.js and AWS, one Postgres behind a service-role boundary, and a fleet of scheduled agents reporting into it.

Runs unattended and reports by push and Slack.

Auto

The agentic layer. A command bar that compiles plain language into a query spec, never into SQL.

A fixed catalog is the only thing it can reach.

Eve

The trading layer. Engines that write and backtest their own strategies against real markets.

Nothing gets capital until it survives out-of-sample.

03The graveyard

Built, measured, switched off.

The full record→

Every portfolio shows the wins; here is the graveyard. Trading engines that ran against real markets with my own money, and what the measurement said. The ones still running earn their place against these.

Directional BTC

No edge on any horizon tested. Retired as a dead end rather than tuned; the range work that replaced it is the part that actually trades.

Baseball

Lost money over its run. It stays off until there is new evidence of an edge, not a new set of parameters fitted to the same data.

Soccer

Nineteen series, about 2,200 deduplicated trades, no significant edge anywhere, and the model's own confidence signal was inverted: its surest bucket did worst.

Copy-trading

The traders worth copying turned out to be arbitrageurs, so copying one leg was naked risk. 31,833 attempts, zero orders placed, removed.

04The paper trail

Experience

Full resume→

Patterson Homes

Senior Software Engineer

2025-2026

Lehi, Utah

  • Sole engineer for a residential homebuilder's entire software platform: an internal operations portal serving five departments and the public homebuyer-facing marketing site, both TypeScript and Next.js on AWS.
  • 12 or more third-party integrations on a webhook-to-queue-to-worker architecture, using Postgres row-level locking to guarantee exactly-once processing across concurrent Lambda invocations.
  • 9 recurring business workflows automated as scheduled AWS Lambdas, replacing manual analyst work with a daily pipeline.
  • An internal AI assistant on the Anthropic SDK: a multi-turn tool-calling agent with 6 role-aware, database-backed tools that let staff query vendors, change orders and meeting history in plain English.
  • A meeting-to-backlog pipeline: Claude extracts feature requests from recorded meetings and links each to its moment in the transcript, a non-technical coworker triages them on a card wall, and one click opens a ClickUp task and a GitHub issue that fires a workflow to open a draft PR.

RevRoad

Software Engineer, Full Stack

2023-2025

Provo, Utah

  • Embedded with venture-portfolio startups as a technical lead, solving ambiguous problems in unfamiliar stacks and shipping to production on aggressive timelines.
  • A production event-driven serverless backend on AWS CDK, Lambda and EventBridge, plus the CI/CD and developer tooling that let client teams iterate without me.

Yonsei University, Korean Language Institute

Full-Time Korean Language Program

2019-2023

Seoul, South Korea

  • Completed the intensive full-time program and earned the Korean Language Certificate.
  • Shipped machine-learning and fintech side projects alongside it: a TensorFlow NLP sentiment-analysis trading bot over Twitter data, and a React and Redux news reader built against a mocked API layer.

4C Insights

Software Engineer, Full Stack

2016-2018

Seattle, Washington

  • Production features against five third-party advertising APIs, including a system that resolved and linked objects across all five.
  • Time-sensitive Facebook API migrations, coordinating code and database changes to prevent customer-facing breakage.

Microsoft, via Allyis

Software Development Engineer in Test

2016

Seattle, Washington

  • Automated test suites for the retail division, built with Selenium WebDriver and C#.

05The toolbox

What I work in

Languages
TypeScriptJavaScriptSQLPythonJavaC/C++
Frontend
Next.jsReactReact Server ComponentsTailwind CSSshadcn/uiRadix
Backend and data
Node.jsPostgreSQLRow-level securitySupabaseZodRESTWebhooksEvent-driven architecture
Cloud and DevOps
AWS LambdaCloudFrontEventBridgeAWS CDKSSTGitHub Actions
AI
Anthropic Claude SDKAgentic tool useLLM extraction pipelines

Education

University of Utah

B.S. Computer Science, Finance, and Accounting

Salt Lake City, Utah

University of Washington

FinTech, Data Science, and Big Data Technologies certificates

Seattle, Washington

Languages

Korean

Four years of full-time study at Yonsei's Korean Language Institute, certificate earned — and still studied now, roadmap-free on purpose.

English

Native.

06The invitation

Build something
that runs without you.

Type it here — it lands on my dashboard and pages my phone.