About

Backend engineer and CTO with 17 years of building and operating production web platforms. I ship LLM-powered chat systems and AI-assisted backends, HIPAA-compliant medical applications and real-time services end to end: design, development, testing, CI/CD deployment, monitoring and iteration. I am strong in Node.js, Elixir (Phoenix) and PostgreSQL, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud) and secure, compliant data handling, and I communicate clearly with product, design, QA and non-technical stakeholders in distributed teams.

Experience

2021 – present

CTO and Chief Back-End Developer

Movables

  • Lead technical strategy and architecture, manage a team of 10, and own backend delivery from design through deployment, monitoring and iteration across several products.
  • Designed and shipped an LLM-powered chat product and other AI-assisted backends in production.
  • Built HIPAA-compliant medical applications, dashboards and data-analysis features with secure storage and compliant data handling.
  • Designed PostgreSQL schemas, tuned queries and added Redis and Memcached caching to keep services fast at scale.
  • Run CI/CD with GitHub Workflows and containerized deployments (Docker, AWS, Google Cloud Run).
  • Partner with product, design and QA, turning requirements into scoped solutions and explaining technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders.
2015 – present

Systems administrator

Eden Food Industries

  • Administer SAP and Microsoft SQL Server environments, Linux servers and virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V) that support day-to-day business operations.
  • Maintain system reliability, backups and security.
2009 – 2021

Web and software developer

Acrolink

  • Delivered web and software projects for clients including GoVanGo, Leco-Gader and MemoApp, using PHP (Laravel, Drupal), JavaScript (Vue.js, Angular, jQuery), C# / .NET, Android and MySQL and MSSQL back ends.
  • Managed Linux hosting, deployments and databases, and grew from developer to full-stack and DevOps ownership.

Skills

Backend and languages

  • Node.js
  • Elixir (Phoenix)
  • PHP (Laravel, Drupal)
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • C# / .NET
  • Java
  • GraphQL
  • REST APIs
  • WebSockets

AI and LLM

  • LLM integration
  • AI chat systems
  • AI-assisted backends
  • Prompt engineering

Databases

  • PostgreSQL (schema design, query optimization)
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • MSSQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB
  • Redis
  • Memcached
  • Sequelize

Cloud and DevOps

  • AWS (EC2, ECS, ECR, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, S3, SES, VPC, Elastic Beanstalk, CodePipeline, Amplify)
  • Google Cloud (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions)
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Nginx
  • Cloudflare
  • GitHub Actions
  • CI/CD
  • Linux administration

Frontend

  • Vue.js
  • Nuxt.js
  • Angular
  • Tailwind CSS
  • HTML / CSS

Security and compliance

  • HIPAA compliance
  • Secure coding
  • Protected health data storage
  • Access control

Practices

  • Code review
  • Automated testing
  • SDLC ownership
  • System design
  • Async remote collaboration
  • Technical documentation

Have a bottleneck in development or infrastructure?

Tell me what you are dealing with, even if it is only a rough idea. A 15-minute call is enough to see if I can help.