Full-stack engineer in Chicago, IL — six years shipping production software across healthcare, fleet management, and education, plus personal projects in payroll, trading, and agent tooling.
I work end-to-end: backend → APIs → frontend → deploy → infra. I bias toward correctness — tested engines, deterministic scoring, and a human in the loop whenever software pays people or publishes on their behalf.
🌐 www.terminatrx.com — portfolio, where each project below is written up at depth.
Real Illinois payroll, on the desktop. Tauri 2 + React shell over a tested .NET 8 tax engine (IRS Pub 15-T / IL-700-T withholding) running as a JSON-RPC sidecar. Throws rather than guess a tax year it has not verified against primary sources.
Rust .NET 8 React SQLite
Agent-driven equity trading for Robinhood, built on the Robinhood MCP server. Claude fetches data and argues against the trade; a deterministic Python core makes every decision. Nothing in src/ can reach the broker, and the critic may shrink a position but never enlarge one. Shadow mode — no live trades.
Python MCP SQLite pytest
AI career copilot — tailors your resume to a job posting (LaTeX-typeset PDFs), scores ATS match before you apply, tracks every application, and turns outcomes into insight. The reviewer pass removes claims the base resume doesn't support.
Next.js 15 Prisma Postgres OpenAI Stripe
Production futures bot (ES/NQ/GC) — rule-based strategies with an optional PPO RL filter that can veto or shrink an entry but never create one, realistic backtesting, prop-firm risk controls, and a dashboard that shows empty states rather than fabricated P&L.
Python PyTorch Postgres
Agentic, human-approved video-clipping pipeline. FastAPI media worker (download → transcribe → LLM editorial scoring → vertical render) feeding a Next.js review/approval dashboard. Nothing publishes without human approval.
FastAPI Next.js Whisper FFmpeg
A personal "what should I focus on today?" OS — recommendations over dashboards. Local-first by design.
Next.js FastAPI pgvector Redis LangGraph
⭐ = public repo. Public is not the same as open source — PayrollTracker and agentic-trader are all rights reserved.
| Languages | C# · TypeScript · Java · Python · Rust |
| Frontend | React · Next.js (App Router) · Angular · React Native · Tauri |
| Backend | .NET Core · ASP.NET Core · Spring Boot · FastAPI · Node |
| Data & search | SQL Server · PostgreSQL (+pgvector) · Elasticsearch · Redis · SQLite |
| Cloud & CI/CD | AWS · Docker · OpenShift · Jenkins · UrbanCode Deploy |
| AI | OpenAI · LangGraph agents · MCP · reinforcement learning (PPO) |
- Correctness first — verified tax tables, deterministic scoring, tests around anything with a right answer
- Human-in-the-loop for anything that moves money or publishes on someone's behalf
- Local-first & privacy-conscious by default
- Unknown is refused, never assumed benign — a control that cannot fail is worse than a missing one
📍 Chicago, IL · 📚 Currently going deeper on distributed systems & agent tooling