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Mobile engineer who ships to millions, and builds the AI tooling other engineers use.

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About

I'm a software engineer at Copart, on the Member Mobile team in Dallas, TX. I work across mobile, backend and platform. On the client that means React Native and TypeScript. On the server it means Node.js, Redis and CI.

I owned over-the-air updates, reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the UK identity-verification migration end to end, and shipped each one behind staged rollouts. I also build tools that Copart engineers use every day, including a launcher for Claude Code.

Right now

  • I'm building Pitwall, a Mac app that keeps terminals and Claude Code sessions in one window.
  • I'm building Local Voice Dictation, a private, on-device alternative to Wispr Flow, in Swift.
  • I'm adding routing to the code assistant that chooses how to answer based on confidence.
  • I'm building Kai, the chat on this site. It answers from what is published here and shows the source behind each answer.

How I work

The same four habits show up across what I have built.

  • Ship in stages. Over-the-air updates roll out in stages. The reCAPTCHA rollout went market by market behind flags. The UK and Ireland identity launches ran separately.
  • Keep a way back. The app recovers from reCAPTCHA SDK failures without blocking sign-in. The identity migration kept a legacy-flow fallback. The content service keeps serving cached alerts during CMS outages.
  • Check before trusting. Over-the-air bundles are code-signed and verified end to end, and a CI gate rejects any bundle that needs a store release. Kai checks every source number against the passages it supplied.
  • Give assistants read access, not write access. The code assistant answers questions but cannot change code. Fixes go through a separate, human-approved service that opens draft pull requests.

Working with AI tools

At Copart I build the tooling around Claude Code. The launcher sends sessions through the company’s gateway, with model switching and live spend and quota tracking, and 500+ engineers use it. I also rolled out shared team skills for tickets, PR review, releases and TestFlight, automatic pull-request review in CI, and usage cost controls.

Experience

Software Engineer, Copart (Member Mobile), Sept 2025 to present

  • Designed and built over-the-air updates across the app and the Node.js server. Bundles are code-signed, rollout is staged, and a CI gate rejects any bundle that needs a store release.
  • Integrated reCAPTCHA Enterprise on client and server across login, registration and bidding. It protected 3.7M+ sessions in two months. Per-market flags controlled the rollout.
  • Built the mobile registration flow for buyers in 10+ countries and 10 languages: payment with 3DS, ID verification, OCR document scan and business documents.
  • Led the migration from LexisNexis to Veriff for UK identity verification, finished before the contract expired. Separate UK and Ireland launches ran behind per-market flags, with retry limits and a legacy-flow fallback.
  • Built an in-app content service. Payload CMS publishes to Redis, so the API keeps serving cached alerts during CMS outages. The business publishes alerts and banners without an app release.
  • Built the Claude Code launcher used by 500+ Copart engineers. It sends sessions through the company’s gateway, with model switching and live spend and quota tracking. I also rolled out shared team skills for tickets, PR review, releases and TestFlight, automatic pull-request review in CI, and usage cost controls.
  • Built an internal assistant on Google ADK and Gemini that answers questions about code, Datadog and Crashlytics. It has no write access. Fixes go through a separate human-approved service that opens draft pull requests.

Software Development & Service Management Intern, Provalus (Optomi), Feb 2025 to May 2025

  • Connected ServiceNow workflow automation to REST APIs and C#/.NET services. Scheduled jobs and business rules removed manual operations work.
  • Built system health and incident dashboards that the operations team adopted for weekly reporting.

IT Help Desk Technician (part-time), SFA, Jun 2024 to Aug 2025

  • Troubleshot access, account and device issues for a campus of 10,000+ students.

Skills

  • Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, SQL, Bash
  • Mobile: React Native, iOS (Xcode, TestFlight), Android (Gradle), Fastlane, OTA (expo-updates), MobX
  • Web and backend: React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, Payload CMS, REST
  • Assistants and search: Claude Code (skills, hooks, subagents), MCP servers, Google ADK, Gemini on Vertex AI, vector search and embeddings, Graphify, Obsidian (notes the assistants read), usage cost tracking
  • Data and cloud: PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL), Amazon S3
  • Observability: Firebase Crashlytics, FullStory, Datadog, Unleash feature flags
  • Identity and security: reCAPTCHA Enterprise, Veriff
  • Tools and testing: Git, GitHub Actions, Docker, Jest, Maestro

Education

B.S. Computer Science, Stephen F. Austin State University. Graduated Aug 2025, GPA 3.6.

Certification

ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA), 2025.

Off the clock

Away from the keyboard, I enjoy the night sky, Formula 1, and trying a new recipe. I make time for films, music, and travel, too.

Writing