Backend engineer with 14 years building APIs, ETL pipelines, and distributed systems in production. Most recently contracted to SpyCloud through Praxent, where I reduced recurring infrastructure and runtime costs and built internal tooling (including a local RAG pipeline with Ollama) to accelerate a legacy migration across a 12-engineer team. I work end-to-end: system design, database modeling, AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD. Comfortable owning ambiguous problems and mentoring peers. Background includes 3 filed patent applications across home automation, healthcare, and automotive sensing, and a peer-reviewed publication in MDPI Sensors (2017).