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Harnessing 20 years of development expertise, I’m a fullstack-capable backend developer specializing in Laravel (13 years) and production AI/LLM system engineering. As creator of Prism, a Laravel package for multi-provider LLM integration, and Iris, a commercially launched AI companion with advanced memory systems and agentic workflows, I bring battle-tested experience architecting and shipping AI-powered applications. Expert in OpenAI, Anthropic, prompt engineering, tool orchestration, and production LLM patterns. Passionate about teaching (international conference speaker), continuous learning, and building products that push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI. Seeking opportunities at the intersection of Laravel and AI where I can architect systems that matter.

Experience

Geocodio, Remote - Principal Software Engineer

(August 2024 - February 2026)

• Scaled critical infrastructure by architecting and executing a zero-downtime migration of request logging from MariaDB to ClickHouse, enabling efficient processing and analysis of over 1 billion API requests monthly while reducing infrastructure costs
• Pioneered AI-assisted development practices by defining and implementing a Claude Code workflow that dramatically improved team velocity and code quality across the engineering organization
• Expanded data capabilities by integrating new datasets through the ETL/data pipeline and implementing secondary address line geocoding, enhancing geocoding accuracy and feature coverage
• Built developer tools and monitoring including a golang CLI tool providing complete API surface coverage and censusapistatus.com, a public uptime monitor for US Census APIs improving transparency for the geocoding community (https://censusapistatus.com)
• Modernized developer experience by rewriting the public PHP SDK with contemporary features, comprehensive testing, and best practices
• Established thought leadership by authoring technical blog posts on scaling, infrastructure, and geocoding best practices, reaching thousands of developers monthly

Curology, Remote - Senior Developer

(April 2020 - August 2024)

• Directed a multi-pharmacy application revamp, overcoming complex technical issues and demonstrating proactive leadership in a high-profile organizational project. This initiative successfully migrated 100k+ users and prescriptions.
• Initiated fulfillment application development, promoting cross-team coordination and facilitating smooth integration. This application was used to fulfill hundreds of thousands of patient orders.
• Advocated for technological advancements by enthusiastically participating in major platforming projects and creating an efficient Docker-based development ecosystem.
• Contributed significantly to talent expansion and team growth through extensive interviewing and delivering insightful talks at internal events, enhancing the team’s technical capabilities.
• Improved platform visibility using DataDog, launching a beneficial campaign supported by several internal presentations, empowering team proficiency.
• Researched, implemented, and migrated users to a new platform authentication system (SuperTokens).
• Advocated for and implemented a CI/CD transition during a PHP, Laravel version upgrade, leading to significant container optimizations and a shift to GitHub Actions, generating savings of over $10k monthly.
• Provided organizational technical assistance, acting as a key resource for technically intricate and architectural challenges.
• Sponsored and supported an initiative to modularize our legacy monolith Laravel application to support Domain Driven Development.

Echo Labs - Founder

(October 2016 - Present)

• Created and launched Prism (prismphp.com)—a production-ready Laravel package for LLM integration featured in multiple international conference talks
• Built and commercialized Iris (iris.prismphp.com)—an AI companion application with persistent semantic memory, demonstrating advanced agentic workflows and multi-provider LLM integration
• Partnered with clients from startups to enterprise to deliver custom solutions using Laravel, Go, TailwindCSS, and modern AI technologies

International Bancard, Detroit/Remote - Director of Application Development

(October 2016 - April 2020)

• Envisioned and created a multi-gateway, EMV capable, credit card payment acceptance API, significantly enhancing the developer experience. This new platform resulted in the largest integration deals in the company’s history, worth millions of dollars. Including the creation of a secure, embedded card tokenization form similar to Stripe’s offering.
• Innovated a functional developer portal using Inertia.js (Vue.js with Laravel backend), improving the integration experience and user engagement.
• Built an incredible new development team from the ground up
• Guided the annual PCI DSS certification process, ensuring top-tier security and compliance.
• Engineered a service-oriented platform, extensively employing AWS, EC2, Ansible, and Docker.

InsideOut Design & Development, Royal Oak - Senior Developer/Sysadmin

(2013 - July 2016)

• Served as a full-stack developer expert in PHP web development, emphasizing excellence in Laravel, WordPress, and database modeling.
• Developed versatile applications using various tech stacks like Laravel, Lumen, Silex, CakePHP, WordPress, Node.js, Vue, and Angular.
• Managed multiple facets, including designing and administering MySQL/Maria databases; constructing and overseeing HTTP APIs via Laravel, Lumen, and Silex; and supervising servers and systems for diverse environments.
• Administered numerous production, staging, and development servers in AWS and Digital Ocean

Skill Overview

• PHP
• Laravel
• GO
• Javascript/Typescript
• Experience architecting, building, and evolving full stack applications, APIs, packages, and micro/macro services
• PHP/Laravel package development
• Testing with PHPUnit/Pest
• HTTP API design, development, testing
• MySQL, Sqlite, and Schema design
• Nextjs
• TailwindCSS
• Ubuntu/Debian/Alpine
• AWS/DigitalOcean
• Docker/Containerization
• DataDog
• OpenAPI/JSONSchema
• OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and many more

Open Source / Projects

• Creator/Maintainer of Prism - a powerful Laravel package for integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into your Laravel applications
• Creator of Iris - An AI That Actually Knows You. Built with Prism and Laravel

Community / Events

• Speaker - Laravel Live DK: Building with Prism
• Speaker - Laracon 2025: Building with Prism
• Speaker - PHP[tek] 2025: From Millions to Billions - Scaling request logging with ClickHouse
• Speaker - PHP[tek] 2025: 3 hour workshop - Building with Prism
• Co-host - Slightly Caffeinated Podcast
• Speaker - PHP[tek] 2024: LLM foundations and Agents + Agentic workflows
• Speaker - Laravel World Wide Meetup 2024: LLM foundations and RAG
• Speaker - Laracon 2018: APIs with Laravel
• Speaker - WavePHP 2018: 1/2 day workshop - Docker
• Organizer DetroitJS (former), Detroit Laravel (former)