Education
B.S. in Computer Science - University of Tennessee at Martin
Skills
Frontend
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- CSS
- Accessibility
- React
- React Native
- Playwright
- Vitest
- Storybook
- Next.js
- Dynatrace Monitoring
Backend
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS AppSync
- AWS Cloudwatch
- Docker
- Workato
Experience
Caesars Entertainment
Lead Engineer
Jan 2026 - Present- Partner with Product and Delivery teams to translate quarterly business goals into clear, actionable technical initiatives and developer workstreams.
- Provide technical leadership to developers, supporting code quality, architectural consistency, and maintainability.
Senior Web Developer
Oct 2024 - Jan 2026- Support and enhance the product API architecture, utilizing Akeneo to house product data, Workato for data integration, AWS DynamoDB for data storage, and AppSync for efficient data serving.
- Collaborate with a team of developers in a monorepo managed through Nx to build dynamic and responsive marketing pages for Caesars Entertainment, using React, React Native, and Next.js to ensure seamless user experiences across platforms.
- Maintain and update the internal communications website, leveraging Builder.io and Next.js to ensure smooth functionality, modern design, and alignment with organizational needs.
Bounteous
Lead Developer
Jan 2024 - Oct 2024- Developed React Native app to replace client's multiple native apps while ensuring feature parity and helped client's developers get up to speed with React Native development and best practices.
- Lead a team of global developers to migrate client's internal communications website for its ~50,000 employees from a legacy CMS to a visual site builder. Collaborated with clients to understand requirements and lead trainings to help stakeholders author content.
- Maintained React SPA for client's eCommerce platform to support user purchasing flow from showing merchandise to checkout.
- Grew the web technology practice through mentoring React devs, reviewing in house learning materials, and giving talks to developers about new technologies.
Senior Developer
Aug 2022 - Jan 2024Software Developer
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022Babel Street
Software Engineer III
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021- Created Babel Street's first mobile app using React Native, TypeScript, and Redux.
- Maintained the main product's front end code base using JavaScript, Gulp, and C#.
Software Engineer II
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019MS State Libraries
Web Developer
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021- Maintained the library's student time clock to log time and generate reports for supervisors for budgetting using React, Redux, and Express.