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@ -22,19 +22,35 @@ Full Stack Development, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS), DevOps & CI/CD, System Archi
Professional Experience
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Full Stack Engineer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
**Coursemojo** - Remote | 10/2022 - Present
Founder
^^^^^^^
**Make Post Sell** - Remote | 01/2019 - Present
Led the development and scaling of an AI assistant teacher for public schools, focusing on infrastructure management and application scaling.
Bootstrapped a multi-tenant e-commerce platform for digital & physical product sales.
Key Achievements:
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for monolithic applications and microservices using AWS CloudFormation and GitHub Actions.
- Scaled AI-powered educational tools using advanced language models (GPT-4, Claude-3, Mistral).
- Developed & open-sourced a complete SaaS solution.
- Implemented commission-free selling model for shop owners.
- Hot wallet payments for Dogecoin and Monero crypto currencies with auto quotes based on cart totals.
Technologies: GNU/Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Caddy
Full Stack Engineer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
**Coursemojo** - Remote | 10/2022 - 10/2025
Led the development & scaling of an AI assistant teacher for public schools, focusing on infrastructure management & application scaling.
Key Achievements:
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for monolithic applications & microservices using AWS CloudFormation and GitHub Actions.
- Scaled AI-powered educational tools using advanced language models (openai & anthropic).
- Developed teacher activity tracking tools, enhancing student progress monitoring capabilities.
- Teacher Dashboard for pause, fastforward, & restarting activities for students.
Technologies: AWS (CloudFormation, SAM, ECR, ECS, ALB), GitHub Actions, Docker, Nginx, uWSGI, Flask, Python
Senior Security Engineer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
**Cofense** - Remote | 07/2020 - 03/2022
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- Collaborated with scrum teams to ensure high-security integrity in product delivery.
- Utilized tools such as Gitlab Enterprise, Okta, DefectDojo, and CloudMapper.
Lead Software Engineer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
**Remind** - Remote | 06/2017 - 07/2020
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- Implemented infrastructure-as-code using Python and Stacker.
- Authored technical blog posts on infrastructure migration and status updates.
Technologies: AWS (ECS, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB), Linux, Python, CloudFormation
Technologies: AWS (ECS, EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB), GNU/Linux, Python, CloudFormation
Founder
^^^^^^^
**Make Post Sell** - Remote | 01/2019 - Present
Bootstrapped a multi-tenant e-commerce platform for digital product sales.
Key Achievements:
- Developed and open-sourced a complete SaaS solution.
- Implemented commission-free selling model for shop owners.
Technologies: Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Caddy
Founder
^^^^^^^
@ -81,7 +87,7 @@ Key Achievements:
- Bootstrapped the service from concept to profitable product.
- Open-sourced the entire SaaS codebase.
Technologies: Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Nginx
Technologies: GNU/Linux, Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy, Nginx
Earlier Career Highlights
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**Associate of Science in Computer Science**
Three Rivers Community College | 2003 - 2006
Technical Skills
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**Operating Systems**: GNU/Linux, Debian, Redhat, Alpine
**Programming**: Python, Bash, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, Java
**Cloud**: AWS (extensive experience)
**Cloud**: AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean
**DevOps**: SaltStack, Ansible, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes
**DevOps**: Gitlab, SaltStack, Ansible, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, Firecracker, KVM, libvirt, gitlab-ci runners
**Databases**: Sqlite3, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB
**Web**: Flask, Pyramid, uWSGI, Nginx, Apache, Caddy, Websockets
**Web**: Flask, Pyramid, uWSGI, Nginx, Apache, Caddy, Websockets, OpenAPI,
Additional Information
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- Remarkbox: https://www.remarkbox.com
- Make Post Sell: https://www.makepostsell.com
- self-hosted gitlab repos: https://git.unturf.com/engineering/