TLDR..

Staff Software Engineer & Mobile Team Lead

EnsoData (August 2024 - present)

Chief Technology Officer

Ecordia Studios (Jul 2022 - August 2024)

Head of Software Engineering

Volcon ePowersports (Mar 2021 - Jul 2022)

Senior iOS Engineer

TradeStation (September 2020 – April 2021)

Lead iOS Engineer

THINKERS Manifesto, Dallas, TX - (September 2019 – September 2020)

Indie App Developer

Happii Apps LLC (January 2014 – present)

Full Overview

Staff Software Engineer & Mobile Team Lead

EnsoData, Dallas, TX - (August 2024 - present)

• Staff Software Engineer acting as hands-on technical lead for a BLE-connected, FDA-cleared React Native mobile application used in clinical sleep diagnostics.
• Owned mobile architecture, native integrations, release pipelines, and production reliability across iOS and Android.
• Improved crash-free sessions from <85% to 99.9% through systematic crash triage, native memory fixes, defensive BLE handling, and runtime observability.
• Reduced deployment lead time by 95% by designing automated CI/CD pipelines, gated testing, and OTA release workflows.
• Awarded the “Golden Pineapple” for refactoring legacy mobile architecture to improve stability, maintainability, and developer velocity.

Chief Technology Officer

Ecordia Studios, Dallas, TX - (July 2022 - August 2024)

• Served as hands-on technical leader for a product-focused software agency, owning architectural direction, technology selection, and engineering standards across multiple client codebases.
• Led and contributed to multiple engineering pods (1–5 engineers) delivering subscription-based mobile applications from discovery through production and iteration.
• Defined and evolved the standard mobile and backend tech stacks, balancing delivery speed, maintainability, and long-term scalability across client projects.
• Made architectural decisions around:
• React Native vs native development
• State management and data persistence strategies
• Backend service selection and API design
• CI/CD, release workflows, and environment management
• Established engineering best practices including:
• Git branching strategies and pull request workflows
• Code review standards emphasizing readability, testability, and long-term maintainability
• Shared project templates and starter repositories to accelerate new project setup
• Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment times by ~50% while improving release reliability and consistency.
• Worked cross-functionally with design, product, and marketing to translate business requirements into technically sound implementation plans.
• Actively participated in code reviews, architectural reviews, and debugging sessions, unblocking teams and raising technical quality across projects.
• Built and mentored engineering teams by interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and coaching engineers and contractors.
• Implemented Agile delivery practices and tooling (Linear, Jira, Trello, ClickUp), adapting process rigor to project complexity and client needs.

Head of Software Engineering

Volcon ePowersports, Austin, TX - (Mar 2021 - Jul 2022)

• Joined as the first software engineer, responsible for architecting and building Volcon’s initial digital platforms before scaling a full internal engineering organization.
• Personally designed and developed the first-generation iOS and Android mobile applications, establishing the foundation for future products and features.
• Led the transition from outsourced, vendor-driven development to a fully in-house engineering model, improving delivery speed, code quality, and institutional knowledge.
• Owned technical direction across mobile apps, web platforms, internal tools, and vehicle-adjacent software, aligning engineering execution with rapidly evolving business needs.
• Defined core architectural patterns, development workflows, and coding standards used across all software initiatives.

Senior iOS Engineer

TradeStation, Dallas, TX

• Developed and maintained the YouCanTrade iOS application, building production features using SwiftUI, Combine, and GraphQL in a modern, reactive architecture.
• Collaborated closely with iOS, web, API, and design partners to plan and deliver features end-to-end, from technical design through release.
• Worked directly with product stakeholders to evaluate feasibility, scope, and tradeoffs, translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Led improvements to unit, integration, and UI testing strategy, increasing confidence in releases and reducing regression risk.
• Identified and resolved build system bottlenecks, reducing incremental unit test and SwiftUI preview build times by 98.8%, significantly improving developer feedback loops.
• Contributed to architectural decisions affecting:
• SwiftUI view composition and state management
• Data flow and API integration
• Code organization and long-term maintainability
• Raised engineering quality through code reviews, performance analysis, and iterative refinement of development practices.

Lead iOS Engineer

THINKERS Manifesto, Dallas, TX

• Guided and mentored a team of 5 engineers in the development and maintenance of the THINKERS iOS app, web-app, and supporting backend API.
• Utilized the newest Apple technologies (e.g. CoreML, Vision, VisionKit) to support machine learning, text/ handwriting recognition, and document capture.
• Rebuilt the main UI using iOS 13 features including UICompositionalCollectionViewLayout, UIDiffableDataSource, and Dark Mode Support.
• Since the release of SwiftUI 2.0, all new features built in SwiftUI (Utilizing UIViewRepresentable when necessary).
• Firebase integration included Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Analytics, Crashlytics, and App Distribution.
• In charge of defining and implementing CI/CD pipeline using Bitrise, Fastlane, and Github (iOS & Android).

iOS Developer

University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

• Maintained suite of native apps utilized by students and staff of the university. These included the main app along with custom apps to support on-campus events and conferences.
• Developed UTD’s first voice-enabled apps (2 Amazon Alexa Skills) and first wearable application on Apple Watch for WatchOS 6 using SwiftUI.Implemented Siri shortcut functionality into iOS app and Apple Watch App.
• Rebuilt the main UI using iOS 13 features including UICompositionalCollectionViewLayout, UIDiffableDataSource, and Dark Mode Support.
• Supported the Android team by developing a new campus dining feature within the core Android app (Kotlin).

Indie iOS Developer

Happii Apps LLC, Dallas, TX

• Solo built and launched 6+ money-making mobile apps (and a dozen other failed apps 🙃)
• Grew multiple apps 5,000+ daily active users (DAU).
• Performed 100+ A/B tests to optimize onboarding, user engagement, and monetization.
• Integrated Google AdMob ad framework with Native, Reward, and Banner ads including mediation strategies.