Support-focused developer with a background in API integrations, observability, and production troubleshooting. I build and maintain full-stack applications and document everything along the way.
📍 Los Angeles, CA · LinkedIn
MyVinylStats — Vinyl collection tracker integrating the Discogs REST API
Node.js React Express MongoDB Prometheus Grafana AWS S3 GitHub Actions
- Instrumented backend with Prometheus; built Grafana dashboards monitoring HTTP request rates, error rates, and latency
- Automated CI/CD via GitHub Actions with SSH-based deployment to Hostinger
- Handles Discogs API auth, rate limiting, and upstream failure recovery
Hangtime — Real-time friend scheduling app
Node.js Express MongoDB WebSockets AWS S3
- Diagnosed and resolved MongoDB connection pool exhaustion and Heroku dyno failures in production
- Configured AWS S3 bucket policies and CORS rules for secure file storage
Emperor Studios (freelance client work)
Python Node.js Express Docker AWS Rekognition Railway
- Built an image processing pipeline: upload → Rekognition content moderation → rembg background removal → S3 → MongoDB
- Deployed a Dockerized multi-process backend (Python + Express) on Railway
Actively contributing to Python and JavaScript Discogs API clients:
joalla/discogs_client— Python Discogs API wrapperlionralfs/discogs-client— TypeScript/JavaScript Discogs client
| Area | Tools |
|---|---|
| Support & Debugging | REST APIs, OAuth 2.0, Postman, log analysis, incident response |
| Monitoring | Prometheus, Grafana |
| Infrastructure | AWS S3, AWS Rekognition, Docker, Railway, Heroku, GitHub Actions, SSH |
| Languages | JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Express, React, MongoDB, SQL |