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Shipped a bring-your-own-key LLM gateway with live metering, spend attribution, and budget caps that fail closed. Designed a hash-chained receipt ledger that finance teams can verify offline without trusting the gateway."},{"name":"Allset Industries Group, Inc.","position":"CTO & Co-Founder","location":"Lehi, UT, remote","url":"https://allsetnow.com","startDate":"2025-07-01","endDate":"2026-08-01","summary":"Built an AI-native platform for services and trades using LLM workflows on Claude and OpenAI, with all infrastructure as Terraform/Terragrunt IaC. Gated agent tool calls through SpiceDB ReBAC over an immutable audit log to track what agents did and were allowed to do. Ran delivery entirely agent-first with Claude Code and Cursor, reviewing every line shipped."},{"name":"LR, Inc.","position":"Principal Software Engineer and Engineering Manager","location":"Lehi, UT","url":"https://lr2sq.com","startDate":"2016-03-01","endDate":"2026-04-01","summary":"Grew engineering org from 3 to 15 while remaining top committer at 40% of code. Led hands-on re-architecture from .NET/Azure monolith to distributed Go services on AWS, achieving 15-minute lead time and 5% change-failure rate (elite DORA). Owned identity for 3M+ accounts on Cognito with zero-downtime migration, PCI-DSS card processing, Postgres at scale, and cut $1.5M+ annual AWS spend through decommissioning and rightsizing."},{"name":"Nexio","position":"Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Manager","location":"Orem, UT","url":"https://nex.io","startDate":"2015-02-01","endDate":"2016-03-01","summary":"Led 8-engineer team shipping SaaS web and mobile apps for 72,000+ customers. Recovered $50K+ by fixing tax-calculation defects and building in-app support tooling. Reduced support response time from days to hours."},{"name":"Start Studio","position":"Software Engineer","location":"Provo, UT","url":"https://startstudio.com","startDate":"2011-12-01","endDate":"2015-02-01","summary":"Built 6 web and mobile products from scratch across timekeeping, fitness, sports, social, CRM and health. Developed a BLE-based 3D-coordinate tracking system serving 5,000+ users."},{"name":"Microsoft","position":"Engineering Manager","location":"Salt Lake City, UT","url":"https://microsoft.com","startDate":"2009-03-01","endDate":"2011-12-01"}],"skills":[{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Rust"},{"name":"TypeScript"},{"name":"JavaScript"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Terragrunt"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Aurora"},{"name":"RDS Proxy"},{"name":"Redis"},{"name":"DynamoDB"},{"name":"SpiceDB"},{"name":"Cognito"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"React Native"},{"name":"Liquibase"},{"name":"distributed systems"},{"name":"monolith decomposition"},{"name":"event-driven architecture"},{"name":"zero-downtime migrations"},{"name":"observability"},{"name":"on-call incident response"},{"name":"LLM integration"},{"name":"LLM-as-judge"},{"name":"tool-calling agents"},{"name":"ReBAC"},{"name":"identity management"},{"name":"PCI-DSS"},{"name":"audit trails"},{"name":"least privilege"},{"name":"fine-grained authorization"},{"name":"CI/CD"},{"name":"REST APIs"},{"name":"Stripe"}]}