I'm a back-end-focused full-stack software engineer with 5+ years building, securing, and maintaining production applications. Most recently I built clinical web apps and reporting automation for a healthcare provider running 100+ skilled-nursing facilities.
- 🔭 Building Chicago Capital Research — an AI-assisted investment-research platform.
- 🗳️ Volunteering as a senior engineer at WeVote, a nonpartisan nonprofit reaching ~150K users.
- 🔐 A little obsessive about the parts of a system you're not supposed to notice — security, data, and uptime.
- 🌱 Continual learner: I pick up new languages, frameworks, and tools quickly and build side projects to stay sharp.
Back end at heart — comfortable across the stack, and serious about the boring parts.
| 5+ yrs in production | 100+ facilities supported | ~150K users reached (WeVote) | 20+ APIs integrated |
Languages
Back End
Front End
Data & Reporting
Cloud & DevOps
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An AI-assisted platform that turns raw market data, news, and SEC filings into automated, analyst-grade research reports and Bloomberg-style dashboards.
- 📊 Research pipeline ingests market data, fundamentals, technicals, news, and SEC filings from 6+ financial providers, then scores each company with numeric ratio analysis and AI news sentiment.
- 🧩 Customizable drag-and-drop dashboards with charts & KPI widgets, a rotating "wall-monitor" mode, and on-demand + scheduled PDF/HTML report generation with email delivery.
- ⚛️ React 19 + Vite SPA shipping to web and Android (Capacitor) from one codebase, backed by an Express 5 + PostgreSQL API with cron-driven pipelines.
- 🔒 Production-grade security: argon2id + JWT auth, RBAC, Helmet/CSRF/WAF rules, rate limiting, replicated backups, monitoring, and a ~900-test suite.
React Vite Capacitor Node.js Express PostgreSQL OpenAI Cron JWT / argon2 Puppeteer Recharts · 🔒 Private — reach out for a walkthrough.
| Project | What it is | Stack | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MTS2 — Metrics & Tracking System 2 | Healthcare app for data entry, reporting, dashboards, resident/medication/incident tracking across 100+ facilities. | Java · Spring Boot · Angular · T-SQL · AWS | 🔒 |
| AI Message Queue | Message-queue system letting multiple AI agents collaborate & share context via an issue tracker + wiki, enabling parallel work. | Multi-Agent · Message Queue · Knowledge Base | 🔒 |
| Email Outreach Agent | Autonomous, goal-driven outreach engine — discovers orgs via web crawl, uses AI to vet relevance, drafts & sends compliant emails, surfaces only replies needing a human. | Node.js · Express · PostgreSQL · Puppeteer · Claude API | 🔒 |
| Scribble Slop | AI art tool that paints hyper-detailed images inside your exact crude outlines, with a two-stage AI moderation gate. | React · Node · Express · PostgreSQL · OpenAI | 🔒 |
| GainzPlanner | AI workout planner — describe a workout in plain English; it infers muscle groups, queries an exercise DB, and builds a routine. | React · Node · Express · PostgreSQL · OpenAI | 🌐 |
| 3D Multiplayer Game Engine | Browser-based real-time multiplayer 3D engine (client + server): A* pathfinding, server-side validation, game ticks, scoped WebSocket updates. | React · TypeScript · Three.js · Node · WebSockets | 🔒 |
| 2D MMO Engine | Browser 2D MMORPG engine with tile-based movement & collision, plus a desktop JSON map editor. | Angular · Java · Spring Boot · JavaFX | 💻 |
| AdiaScript | A from-scratch scripting language + IDE for automating keyboard/mouse input — custom interpreter and editor. | Java · Language Design · Interpreters | 💻 |
| EZcrypt | Desktop file-encryption tool with a simple GUI (Blowfish) for protecting sensitive files. | Java · JavaFX · Encryption | 💻 |
| Free Coding Tutorials | A ~200,000-word library of programming tutorials: Java, Python, C++, security, DSA, cloud, and more. | Technical Writing · Full Stack | 🌐 |
| Intro to Security | An e-book introducing infosec — the OWASP Top 10, common web vulns, and core defensive concepts. | Infosec · OWASP · Writing | 💻 |
| WeVote / WeConnect | Open-source full-stack contributions to a nonpartisan voter-awareness nonprofit (~150K users). | React · Python · Django · Node · PostgreSQL | 🌐 |
🔒 private / proprietary · 🌐 live site · 💻 source on GitHub · more at chicagolandsoftware.com
- Senior Software Engineer · Chicago Capital Research — Chicago, IL (Remote) · 2026–Present Full-stack platform automating investment research, financial reporting, and analyst workflows; integrated 6 financial/AI data providers and cut manual research effort 90%+.
- Senior Software Engineer (Volunteer) · WeVote USA — Oakland, CA (Remote) · 2026–Present Full-stack feature work & testing across React / Python·Django / Node·Express / PostgreSQL on an open-source codebase reaching ~150K users.
- Junior Application & Reports Developer · Legacy Healthcare — Skokie, IL · 2021–2025 One of two developers for EMR-backed clinical apps across 100+ facilities ($400M+ revenue). Remediated RCE & SQLi in production, deployed a WAF with automated pentest-driven rules, introduced version control, and built full-stack services in Java / Spring Boot / Angular / T-SQL / AWS.
- Software Developer · Smart Financial Research — Wheaton, IL · 2016–2018 Supported & enhanced Java and WordPress applications; troubleshooting, reliability, and remote support.
Earlier non-technical and IT-support roles (back to 2012) are omitted to keep the focus on software engineering. Full history — no gaps — available on request.
- 🎓 Fullstack Academy — Web Development Bootcamp · 2025
- 🎓 Northeastern Illinois University — Computer Science coursework · 2018
- 🎓 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville — Computer Science coursework · 2016–2018
I'm open to senior / staff back-end and full-stack roles, and available for contract or freelance work. Résumé and references available on request — email is fastest.
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