Now contract engineer at PowerChat building OpenVibe

I'm a Software Engineer

I build software from start to finish, then keep it running. That includes AI agents and automation that run in production around the clock and do the work of a whole team. I've been building software since I was a kid, and Amazon showed me how real systems break at scale: first keeping an automated robotics floor running, then as an ICQA data analyst tracking down inventory discrepancies for SOX compliance.

Bring me a rough idea and I'll turn it into a working product.

I built and run the OpenVibe network on my own, and right now I'm rebuilding PowerChat's developer platform and payments.

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What I build and do
  • Websites & web apps
  • APIs & integrations
  • AI agents
  • Automation
  • Robotics & hardware
  • Data & analytics
  • Payments & billing
  • Streaming & realtime
  • Identity & security
  • Servers & deploys
  • Games & 3D
  • Sales & leadership
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  • 0+ Websites, apps and services designed, built and shipped end to end
  • 0k+ Lines of production code written and maintained
  • 0+ API endpoints and pages running in production, all built solo
  • 0 Free web tools built and published for anyone to use
  • 0 Payment processors merged into one billing system that can't double-charge
  • 0+ Inventory discrepancies investigated and closed for SOX compliance at Amazon
  • 0k+ Live game servers tracked by a platform I ran for a decade
  • 0+ Years running my own company, from the code to the taxes
Profile

I build it, ship it and keep it running.

One person who can take an idea from a whiteboard to paying customers, and still be the one answering for it a year later.

I'm a software engineer and business owner who builds complete products and keeps them running: websites, platforms, payment systems, AI agents and the automation behind them. Over the last decade I've shipped 25+ sites and services, rebuilt a live payments program across five processors, led a sales team, and turned an Amazon data-analysis job into tooling other Amazon associates used every day. Give me a problem or a rough idea and I'll deliver the whole thing: design, code, deployment and support.

Ten years of running my own company taught me to care about the whole loop: the code, the servers, the invoice and the person on the other end. I like small teams, hard problems and software that stays up.

Experience → All projects →
  • Ships the whole productDesign, code, infrastructure, deployment and support, with no hand-off in between.
  • Moves money safelyRebuilt PowerChat's payments across five processors, with ledgers that make double-charging impossible.
  • Builds AI that does real workAutonomous agents that researched and wrote compliance reports Amazon associates used every day.
  • Runs it in production25+ sites and services with zero-downtime deploys, operated by one person.
  • Understands the business sideTen years running my own company, three leading a retail sales team, then a year each in Amazon Robotics operations and floor leadership and as an Amazon ICQA data analyst.
Work

Things I shipped, grouped.

Four groups, short cards, real links. Every card opens the case notes; every OpenVibe tile opens the live site.

The OpenVibe network 7

Seven live services behind one sign-in, all built and run by me since 2026.

All OpenVibe case notes
Live streaming

OpenVibe.Live

RTMP, WHIP and WebRTC ingest, multi-destination restream, VODs, clips, chat, live captions and translation.

529 routes · 179k LOCOpen
Identity & spine

OpenVibe.Network

OIDC/OAuth2 provider, OpenCoins wallet, notifications, themes and the shared chrome every site renders.

176 routes · RS256Open
Media backend

OpenVibe.Media

Multi-tenant media API: recording, uploads, clip cutting, thumbnails, pastes and local → B2 → R2 storage tiering.

86 routes · 3 tiersOpen
Tools suite

OpenVibe.Tools

169 server-rendered tools across 8 families, a host registry with custom-domain mirrors, and full SEO plumbing.

169 tools · 8 familiesOpen
Scraplandia

OpenVibe.Games

Browser multiplayer survival game: authoritative server, client prediction, Havok physics, physgun building.

56k LOC TypeScriptOpen
Pastes & posts

OpenVibe.Community

Server-rendered paste hub with forks, search, feeds and silent SSO, proxied to Live so identity stays consistent.

No DB of its ownOpen
13 front doors

OpenVibe.Sites

One catalog and one template generate the pages and nginx configs for openvibe.chat, .codes, .wiki, .news and more.

13 domains · 1 buildOpen
How it fits together

One login, one wallet, seven products that feel like one.

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Sign in once and every OpenVibe site knows who you are, what you own and what you look like. The identity service in the middle handles accounts, security and the shared virtual currency; every other product plugs into it through clear, documented APIs. That's the same playbook I bring to any company: secure single sign-on, payments and APIs designed so new products can be added without breaking the old ones.

  • Updates ship with zero downtime, so users never see an outage
  • Media storage tiers automatically from fast local disks to cheap cloud storage
  • AI features run on a budget-capped, vendor-neutral layer (OpenAI, Anthropic or local models)
  • Every migration is rehearsed as a dry run before it touches real users
OpenVibe .Network OIDC · wallet · chrome Live Media Tools Games Community 13 Sites
Coming soon

PowerChat 2

Contract platform work for a creator-monetization product: payments and the developer API.

All PowerChat work

AI, data & automation 4

Agents, analytics and tooling that did real work at Amazon and inside OpenVibe.

All AI & data work

Games, tools & side projects 6

The builds that keep the tools sharp: a multiplayer game, desktop apps, hardware and utilities.

The whole archive
See all 21 projects and every website Filter by area, open the case notes, or jump straight to the live sites
Experience

A decade of owning the outcome.

Founder, contractor, analyst, floor monitor, sales lead. Different rooms, same job: understand the system, fix it, make it measurable.

  1. Aug 2026 — Present

    Software Engineer (Contract)

    PowerChat powerchat.live

    Creator monetization platform: tips, alerts, overlays, TTS and chat integrations across Twitch, Kick, YouTube and Rumble. I own large platform programs end to end on the v2 TypeScript rewrite.

    • Designed and shipped the Developer API platform end to end: PowerChat became an OAuth2 authorization server with scoped consent, token lifecycle, HMAC-signed webhooks and an inbound API, so third-party apps act as pseudo-platforms feeding chat, view counts, follows, subs, currency and tips into overlays. Re-implemented Streamlabs as the first official app on the new framework.
    • Rebuilt the payments program as one system: a provider-agnostic charge rail with five adapters (Stripe Connect, Square, PayPal, an NMI card vault and NowPayments crypto), append-only ledgers where double-crediting is structurally impossible, Tipalti payouts, recurring Pro and viewer-subscription billing, signed webhooks per provider and an admin reconciliation surface.
    • Delivered 400+ commits and roughly 300k changed lines in the first five weeks across integrations, payments and Rumble connection work, backed by 240+ governed backend integration tests and 1,700+ frontend unit tests, with lint, typecheck and empty-database migration proofs in CI.
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Express
    • React
    • Prisma
    • PostgreSQL 17
    • Redis
    • BullMQ
    • OAuth2
    • Stripe
    • Square
    • PayPal
    • NMI
    • Tipalti
    • Docker
    • GitLab CI
  2. 2026 — Present

    Founder · Architect · Sole Engineer

    OpenVibe openvibe.live and 20+ domains

    An open, community-run live-streaming network I own end to end. Launched in 2026 as a single streaming site and grown, in the same year, into seven connected apps sharing one login, with me as the only engineer on it.

    • Designed and built an entire network of seven apps that work together under one account: live streaming, sign-in and a virtual-currency wallet, media storage, a 169-tool toolbox, a browser game and a community hub. About 363,000 lines of code and 900+ web endpoints — all built, deployed and kept running by me alone.
    • Built the live-streaming engine from the ground up: anyone can broadcast from a browser or an app, and it automatically re-broadcasts to Twitch, YouTube, Kick and more at the same time, saves the recording and auto-generates short clips. It also produces live captions and translates them into about 21 languages in real time, and uses AI to spot and label the best moments in every stream.
    • Ran it like a real product: I built a deploy pipeline that updates the live site with zero downtime viewers ever notice, cut the homepage's load time roughly in half and eliminated the jarring layout jumps it used to have, and — when it came time to move everything to new infrastructure — moved every user, every account balance and every active player over with zero downtime and zero data loss.
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • Express
    • SQLite (WAL)
    • mediasoup
    • werift
    • ffmpeg
    • whisper.cpp
    • Babylon.js
    • Havok
    • OAuth2 / OIDC
    • RS256 JWT
    • nginx
    • systemd
    • Cloudflare
    • B2 / R2
    • Prometheus-style diagnostics
  3. 2024 — Mar 2026

    Data Analyst — ICQA

    Amazon PAE2 · Arlington, WA

    Inventory Control and Quality Assurance analytics for a fulfillment center, including the Sarbanes-Oxley controls behind inventory accuracy.

    • Owned the SOX-compliance IRDR workflow: personally researched 1,000+ inventory discrepancies and built the data systems and reporting that satisfied Sarbanes-Oxley audit requirements.
    • Built SQL and Excel reporting for inventory accuracy and defect visibility; delivered dashboards, recurring leadership reports and a network-wide quality recap deck.
    • Shipped an autonomous root-cause agent that plans, gathers evidence and writes complete IRDRs, collapsing hours of research per defect into seconds.
    • SQL
    • Excel / Power Query / VBA
    • Python
    • Anthropic API
    • Tool-use agents
    • TamperMonkey
    • SOX compliance
  4. 2023 — 2024

    Amnesty Floor Monitor — Amazon Robotics

    Amazon Robotics launch site
    • Monitored the Amazon Robotics floor during launch operations: enforced amnesty zones, cleared obstructions and kept pod and drive-unit flow safe.
    • Investigated recurring pod, drive and workstation defects, documented patterns and escalated to RME and operations leadership to drive process fixes.
    • Amazon Robotics
    • Floor safety
    • Electro-mechanical troubleshooting
    • Incident documentation
  5. 2020 — 2023

    Assistant Manager / Sales Representative

    Verizon Wireless
    • Ranked among the district's top performers, consistently exceeding monthly quotas across phones, plans, accessories, protection and financing.
    • Promoted to Assistant Manager; coached a team of 4 to 8 reps through 1-on-1s, floor coaching and skill workshops, and ran opens, closes, inventory and escalations.
    • Turned walk-ins into multi-line accounts through consultative, needs-first selling. That habit still shapes how I present systems and decisions.
    • Consultative sales
    • Team leadership
    • Coaching
    • Retail operations
    • Customer retention
  6. 2015 — Present

    Founder · Developer · Systems Admin

    Own company, LLC
    • Built analytics platforms tracking 200,000+ live game servers: ingestion, search, ranking, dashboards and licensed partner APIs. Ranked first on Google for several major titles.
    • Self-built and collocated 1U and 2U servers in datacenters; designed for scale and DDoS resilience and ran the whole LLC, from licenses and taxes to partner relations.
    • Rebuilding the idea in 2026 as GameServerLists (launching soon): a 14-service, game-agnostic server-discovery platform with multi-region probes, time-weighted ranking, an anti-fraud integrity engine and a tiered public API.
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • PHP
    • Python
    • MongoDB
    • TimescaleDB
    • Redis
    • NGINX
    • Linux
  7. 2012 — 2015

    Earlier Technical & Business Work

    Devolved · GModStore · eBay
    • Built multiplayer game systems, monetized in-game economies and digital products sold through ScriptFodder and GModStore.
    • Produced graphics, support docs, e-commerce listings and moderation workflows, and ran online communities at scale.
    • Lua
    • PHP
    • MySQL
    • Photoshop
    • Source Engine
Skills

The toolbox, honestly labelled.

Three bars means I have shipped and operated it in production more than once. One bar means I can read it, fix it and learn the rest quickly.

Engineering & platform

Backends, APIs and the front ends that sit on them.

  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Node.js / Express
  • React
  • Python
  • PostgreSQL / Prisma
  • SQLite (WAL) / MySQL
  • Redis / BullMQ
  • REST & event-driven design
  • PHP
  • HTML / CSS / SSR

Streaming & realtime

Getting video from an encoder to a viewer without dropping frames.

  • RTMP / SRT / WHIP
  • WebRTC (mediasoup, werift)
  • ffmpeg pipelines
  • HLS / DASH
  • WebSockets
  • TURN / coturn
  • Restream & VOD systems
  • Live captions (whisper.cpp)

AI tooling & data

LLM features with budgets, caching and guardrails, plus the analytics that came first.

  • Anthropic / OpenAI-compatible APIs
  • Tool-use agents
  • Local inference (whisper.cpp, Ollama)
  • Prompt & cost governance
  • SQL analytics
  • Excel / Power Query / VBA
  • Dashboards & reporting
  • Root-cause analysis

Infrastructure & operations

I deploy what I build and get paged for it.

  • Linux (Debian / Ubuntu)
  • nginx
  • systemd & socket activation
  • Docker / Compose
  • Cloudflare (DNS, edge, R2)
  • Backblaze B2 / S3 APIs
  • Zero-downtime deploys & rollback
  • Performance profiling (CDP)
  • DDoS resilience
  • Bare-metal 1U/2U builds

Identity, payments & security

The parts that must not be wrong.

  • OAuth2 / OIDC providers
  • JWT (RS256), JWKS, SSO, FedCM
  • Stripe Connect / Square / PayPal
  • NMI vault / Tipalti payouts
  • Ledger design & idempotency
  • Webhook signing & verification
  • SSRF / egress hardening
  • SOX-style audit trails

Game development

Multiplayer first, physics second, everything authoritative.

  • Babylon.js (WebGPU/WebGL)
  • Havok physics
  • Authoritative servers & prediction
  • Lua / Source Engine
  • C# / C++
  • Gameplay systems & economies

Leadership & communication

Ten years of running a company and a few of running a sales floor.

  • Founding & operating an LLC
  • Technical writing & runbooks
  • Coaching & team leadership
  • Consultative sales
  • Stakeholder reporting
  • Community moderation at scale
Contact

I build websites.

Web and software engineering, guru-level: I'm the person you call whether it's a landing page or a live-streaming platform — I design it, build it and keep it running. Open to pretty much anything — engineering, platform, analytics, ops, sales, whatever fits · remote or Pacific Northwest. I answer email fastest.

[email protected] (425) 367-3997