Resume
12 years shipping production systems — from healthcare IT to cognitive AI agents.
Experience
Cognitive Systems Engineer
Independent
2025–Present·Remote
- Building Cog-Bot: a cognitive memory system with semantic search, agent orchestration, and persistent reasoning
- Designed and deployed autonomous agent infrastructure processing 100+ tasks/day
- Production system: Spring Boot + pgvector + Ollama + Auth0, deployed on DigitalOcean
Principal Engineer
BluePallet / Vinmar International
2022–2025·Houston, TX
- Led team of 7 engineers building B2B chemical commerce platform processing multi-million dollar transactions
- Compressed release cycles from 4–8 months to 1.5 months with zero critical bugs
- Reduced catalog load times from 7+ seconds to 200ms; maintained 99% uptime across 5 global tenants
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise SaaS
2019–2022·Kansas City, MO
- Platform engineering and full-stack development at scale
- Technical leadership on cross-functional product teams
- Cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline optimization
Software Engineer → Team Lead
Cerner Corporation
2014–2019·Kansas City, MO
- Led team of 10–14 engineers on Brahe distributed search platform serving millions of patient records
- Built MapReduce indexing pipelines achieving 99% uptime with 2/4/6-hour refresh cycles
- Projected $500K+ cost savings through infrastructure optimization and search architecture redesign
Skills
Languages
JavaTypeScriptPythonSQL
Backend
Spring BootNode.jsPostgreSQLpgvectorR2DBC
Frontend
ReactNext.jsTailwind CSS
AI/ML
Spring AIOllamaClaude APISemantic SearchAgent Orchestration
Infrastructure
DockerAWSDigitalOceanCaddyGitHub Actions
Tools
GittmuxClaude CodePlaywright
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Oklahoma State University
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