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Full professional record

Software is only
one layer of the system.

I operate across engineering, infrastructure, security, automation, and executive communication layers. My work spans AWS architecture, compliance readiness, product delivery, deployment pipelines, and operational reporting for high-impact organizations and rapidly evolving products.

Higher educationGovernment-adjacent SaaSProduct engineeringAutomation ventures

Career flight recorder

Four environments.
One systems mindset.

Scroll the record. Each stop shows the operating context, the work, and the signal it produced.

Record 01

Sep 2025 — Present

Product Support Engineer / Security Engineer

EverblueHybrid · Charlotte, NC

Engineering and operating a government-contracting SaaS platform while strengthening its security, reporting, and compliance posture.

Next.js + AWSSOC 2 readinessMulti-tenant SaaSExecutive reporting
  • 01Maintain and expand a production-grade government contracting web application supporting large-scale federal operational workflows and reporting pipelines.
  • 02Work directly with executive leadership to streamline SOC 2 audit preparation, improve operational transparency, and strengthen platform security.
  • 03Contribute across the full software lifecycle with Next.js, AWS infrastructure, GitHub workflows, and tenant-heavy SaaS architecture.
  • 04Implement automation, runtime monitoring, and reporting infrastructure for week-over-week and month-over-month visibility into enterprise contract activity.
  • 05Support production deployments, debugging, feature iteration, and internal tooling across engineering and business stakeholders.

Record 02

Mar 2025 — Present

Founder & Lead Automation Engineer

Vector LabsCharlotte, NC

An independent software and automation laboratory turning advanced workflow ideas into practical products and operating systems.

Product strategyAI automationCloud architectureTechnical leadership
  • 01Founded Vector Labs to help businesses modernize operational workflows, internal systems, and AI-assisted automation infrastructure.
  • 02Architect and prototype products involving automation pipelines, AI-integrated tooling, cloud-native infrastructure, and scalable web applications.
  • 03Design solutions spanning backend engineering, deployment architecture, workflow orchestration, and product strategy.
  • 04Operate across executive planning, engineering leadership, systems design, product iteration, and rapid development.

Record 03

Mar 2023 — May 2025

Systems Engineer I

Appalachian State UniversityBoone, NC

Automated and operated university-scale device management, software delivery, and internal reporting systems.

8,000+ devices400+ packagesPowerShellSCCM + Azure AD
  • 01Developed PowerShell automation supporting SCCM and Azure AD management across 8,000+ university devices.
  • 02Maintained and optimized 400+ software deployment packages, improving consistency and deployment reliability.
  • 03Automated reporting, monitoring, and internal workflows for enterprise-scale IT operations.
  • 04Collaborated with vendors, engineering teams, and technical staff through Agile project workflows.
  • 05Authored technical documentation and trained junior developers and student engineers on automation tooling and deployment processes.

Record 04

May 2022 — Aug 2022

Computer Science Intern

Hypermill.digitalCornelius, NC

Structured a live enterprise product-data ecosystem and the workflows that kept it useful.

10,000+ SKUsRetoolGraphCRMData operations
  • 01Built centralized data systems with GraphCRM and Retool to manage 10,000+ product SKUs in a live enterprise data ecosystem.
  • 02Designed scalable workflows for marketing, operations, and support automation.
  • 03Migrated task tracking from Trello to ClickUp, improving ticket visibility for design teams.
  • 04Collaborated with data-focused teams to structure and manage dynamic product datasets.

Selected artifacts

Things I made
to learn or solve.

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ARTIFACT 01IN MOTION

VibeCodeCLI

A cross-language developer CLI assistant for execution, testing, and automation across 10+ programming languages.

Built dynamic token budgeting, runtime orchestration, and context-aware cost optimization into a Python-first development suite.

PythonLLM toolingRuntime orchestrationPrompt engineering
Open repository
ARTIFACT 02RESEARCH

Runoff Forecasting with LSTM

A machine-learning flood prediction system using recurrent neural networks and time-series forecasting.

Preprocessed environmental datasets and trained LSTM models to forecast runoff patterns and hydrological behavior.

PythonTensorFlowLSTMEnvironmental data
Open repository
ARTIFACT 03SHIPPED

y86-64 Simulator & Compiler

A low-level simulator and compiler built to understand assembly and CPU architecture.

Implemented as coursework. Source is not public.

C / C++AssemblyComputer architecture
Private / offline artifact
ARTIFACT 04RESEARCH

The Lighthouse

A hobbyist Unity story game: a horror-movie parody inspired by The Lighthouse.

Early proof that I think in game runtimes, not just web canvases. This is why Arcade Lab is a Unity slot, not another browser prototype.

UnityC#Narrative systems
Private / offline artifact
ARTIFACT 05SHIPPED

2D Drawing Engine

A functional graphics engine built in Haskell with custom rendering algorithms and recursive pattern generation.

An experiment in declarative graphics, tokenization, custom file types, and modular architecture.

HaskellRasterizationTokenizationFunctional design
Open repository
ARTIFACT 06IN MOTION

This Portfolio

A content-first engineering portfolio with a Unity-ready arcade slot and a live GitHub signal.

Next.js renders the professional record; EmailJS handles contact without storage; a future Unity WebGL build stays opt-in and off the critical path.

Next.jsTypeScriptVercelAgentic workflows
Open repository