Fifteen-plus years of shipping.
Solution architect and engineering leader across web, backend, mobile, and supply-chain infrastructure — at three of the biggest names in tech, at startups, and as an independent. This is the long version; the short version is what I can do for you.
The work
WAVIISoft, LLC
My consulting practice — full-time since leaving Nordstrom in 2023: supply-chain integration, product builds, and cloud architecture, plus open-source tooling built in the open.
Client mobile app development for fitness CRM companies, delivered end to end.
pr-triage (a PR triage board), loami (an embeddable backend substrate, in design), and git-heatmap (commit visualization) — under @waviisoft.
Property-management software built as the customer — informed by operating 26 rental units.
ShuffleTix, Inc.
Consumer products, designed, built, and operated solo.
An event ticketing service that randomized ticket orders for fair fulfillment — no more rewarding whoever refreshes fastest.
Currently in active development — more soon.
Pioneer Ridge Properties
Co-own and operate 26 rental units across 11 multi-family properties. Running physical operations keeps me honest about what it means to operate systems — software or otherwise — and it's why I'm building proptech software as the customer, not just the engineer.
Nordstrom
Technical lead for a six-person engineering team building Nordstrom's event-driven warehouse integration — continuing the work I began there via PeloTech (below).
Architected the event-driven system translating events between third-party warehouse systems — 22+ microservices across five environments.
Supported the go-live of a new omni-channel fulfillment facility, where the integration layer had to be right on day one.
Evaluated top-tier WMS platforms for selection — vendor landscape, integration cost, reference architecture.
LIFFFT / PeloTech
Designed event-driven supply-chain solutions for Nordstrom's omnichannel fulfillment, with a strong mentoring focus. Nordstrom hired me full-time a year in.
Event-driven integration with a third-party dropship service, architected for high availability and throughput.
Pike13
Full-stack work on a scheduling/CRM SaaS serving businesses worldwide.
RESTful APIs powering the core scheduling and client-management product.
Client-facing mobile applications for the platform.
Tooling that cut release time from two hours to twenty minutes.
Amazon
Led the mobile advertising engineering team.
Publicly launched the Android Ads SDK — shipped into thousands of third-party apps.
Drove code coverage past 50% on a codebase where every bug shipped to someone else’s app.
Microsoft
Seven years across Office and Windows Phone, with a reputation for low-level debugging: the person you called when the crash dump made no sense.
Ended the run as an architect on the Windows Phone platform.
QA engineering across Office releases, deep in test tooling and debugging.
Education
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Wrote GPS software for a DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous vehicle — my first production system where failure meant something crashed in the physical world.
Beyond the keyboard
The non-software work that shapes how I engineer.
Ski instructor
When the lifts are running, I teach skiing. Breaking a complex physical skill into learnable steps for a nervous beginner is the same job as explaining an architecture to a non-technical stakeholder — and the mountain gives faster feedback.
Landlord & operator
26 rental units means real tenants, real maintenance, and real on-call. It's the founder-market fit behind the proptech software I'm building.
Eagle Scout
Earned in 2002, along with the American Institute of Public Service Jefferson Award for community service the same year. Be prepared — it turns out that's also the whole job in supply-chain go-lives.
Open source
Current projects under @waviisoft: pr-triage, loami, git-heatmap, and whatever itch needs scratching next.