Education
B.S. in Computer Science - University of Tennessee at Martin
Skills
Languages
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
Frontend
- Accessibility
- CSS
- Next.js
- React Native
- React
Testing & Quality
- Dynatrace
- Playwright
- Storybook
- Vitest
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS AppSync
- AWS CloudWatch
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS ECS
- AWS S3
- Docker
Integration & Platforms
- Akeneo PIM
- Bynder
- Builder.io
- Workato
AI-Assisted Development
- AWS Kiro
- Cursor
- Spec-Driven Development
Experience
Caesars Entertainment
Lead Engineer
Jan 2026 - Present- Led the technical development of an ongoing migration from Adobe AEM to a custom content platform, which has grown to support 1,000+ pages while integrating Akeneo PIM, Workato, AWS DynamoDB, and AWS AppSync. Enabled authors to independently manage and publish content without developer intervention.
- Led a cross-functional team of 6–9 product owners, contractors, and developers, directly managing 3 developers and establishing technical direction, engineering standards, and development practices.
- Productionized an AI-generated prototype for a major Caesars Rewards experience, implementing the frontend, CMS integration, E2E test coverage, Dynatrace monitoring, and CI/CD infrastructure deployed to AWS S3 and routed through CloudFront and Imperva WAF; the launch generated approximately 500,000 page views in its first week.
Senior Web Developer
Oct 2024 - Jan 2026- 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.
- Built a blog-style content experience for caesars.com/explore supporting 80+ articles, implementing reusable styles, authoring workflows, and structured data to improve SEO and AI search discoverability.
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.
- Led a globally distributed team of 5 developers across the U.S. and India to migrate an internal communications website serving ~50,000 employees from a legacy CMS to a visual page builder, completing the migration in 6 months. Partnered with the design team and project manager to deliver the project on schedule and within budget, establishing a scalable authoring experience now supporting ~1,200 pages without developer intervention.
- 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.
Software Engineer II
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019MS State Libraries
Web Developer
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018- Maintained the library's student time clock to log time and generate reports for supervisors for budgetting using React, Redux, and Express.