Available for senior IC roles

Senior Rails engineer building agentic AI workflows in production.

9+ years modernizing legacy Rails systems and shipping payments infrastructure. Currently leading full-stack work on the VA Appeals modernization at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Ruby on Rails React AWS Payments / FX Claude Code PostgreSQL

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About

I'm a senior Rails engineer with nine years of full-stack experience modernizing complex legacy systems and shipping payments infrastructure at scale. At PayPal/Braintree I worked on the FX Optimizer and Pay with Venmo. At Apple I streamlined internal Marcom tools used across the company. I'm an early adopter of agentic AI engineering — using Claude Code and GitHub Copilot to run autonomous multi-step development workflows in production. Looking for a senior IC role at a company that takes AI-assisted engineering seriously.

Experience

Booz Allen Hamilton Nov 2024 — Present Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Leading full-stack development of core features for the Department of Veterans Affairs Appeals Product Line — 15% improvement in system efficiency from inception to launch.
Integrated agentic AI workflows (Claude Code + GitHub Copilot) into the development lifecycle — 20% reduction in code review cycle time.
Built reusable React components that accelerated front-end delivery by 20%.
AWS (EC2, S3, RDS) infrastructure for scalable deployment of the modernization initiative.

PayPal / Braintree Oct 2023 — Oct 2024 Software Engineer

Contributed to the FX Optimizer product — dynamic currency conversion and lower transaction fees on international payments.
Developed and integrated new features for the Pay with Venmo team, expanding alternative payment methods and improving the checkout experience.
Designed and tested high-volume financial transaction systems with a focus on reliability, security, and compliance.

Apple Inc. Nov 2019 — Sep 2023 Ruby on Rails Developer

Streamlined Marcom tools for Apple internal users — 25% increase in operational efficiency.
Built robust RESTful APIs and integrated third-party services — 30% reduction in manual processing.
Owned end-to-end development of new features and bug fixes across large-scale internal applications.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jun 2018 — Oct 2019 Ruby on Rails Developer

Designed intuitive front-end applications using Rails, JavaScript, and Bootstrap — 30% increase in customer satisfaction.
Tuned MySQL databases — 40% reduction in query execution time on high-volume financial transactions.
Developed high-traffic production systems including payment processing integrations.

KLX Aerospace Solutions Sep 2016 — May 2018 Ruby on Rails Developer

Spearheaded TDD/BDD adoption with RSpec and Cucumber — 30% reduction in production bugs.
Maintained 99.9% uptime during peak production hours.
Optimized complex Active Record SQL joins to resolve performance bottlenecks.

Skills

Backend

Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Python, Active Record, RSpec, Cucumber, Sidekiq, Devise, RESTful APIs

Frontend

React, Stimulus JS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, AJAX

AI / Agentic

Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI API, LLM-assisted development, AI agent workflows

Cloud / DevOps

AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, Elastic Beanstalk), Docker, Jenkins, Heroku, CI/CD

Payments

Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, Venmo, FX optimization, alternative payment methods

Data

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, query optimization, database tuning