I can help build real systems — grounded in how they actually work.
Part builder, part high-tech administration partner. I use AI to help build systems — and to keep them cheap, secure, and healthy: hunting billing waste, surfacing infrastructure and security issues. My value is knowing what "right" looks like, and catching what's wrong.
I don't pretend to hand-write every line — I vibe-code with AI, backed by real
understanding of the inner workings: the AWS primitives, the architecture trade-offs, the
security posture, why one design beats another. My real edge is using AI to correct,
verify, and strengthen AI — draft with one pass, critique and adversarially verify with
another, then harden it against what I actually know. The human deciding what's right
is the value. When a modal renders fine on one design but breaks on another, I know it's a
transformed ancestor trapping a fixed element — not just "the AI made a mistake."
Judgment is the job.
And it's not only code — I point the same AI-augmented approach at operations:
auditing cloud billing for waste, surfacing infrastructure and security issues, keeping the
stack lean. A partner in high-tech administration, not just a coder.
Selected work
Platform migration · Lead
WordPress → static, own-the-stack
Led the replacement of a 19-brand mortgage WordPress multisite with a Next.js static platform on S3 + CloudFront — per-domain host routing, content-as-JSON edited by trained staff, lead forms on Lambda + DynamoDB. Every resource is Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation), so test and prod deploy from the same templates. The payoff: a stack you fully own that runs for a few dollars a month instead of servers + plugins to patch — cheap, fast, nothing to hack.
A read-only sweeper (IaC, ~$2/mo) that inventories an AWS account, prices idle waste (~$67k/yr reclaimable found), and flags live security exposure — world-open security groups, public databases, IAM gaps — cross-checked against AWS Security Hub.
NodeAWS APIsSecurity Hubleast-privilege IAM
Product · For fun
Self-contained web apps
Small, single-file apps that run entirely on-device — a weekly meal planner, a cocktail app, a movie tracker. Zero backend, add-to-home-screen ready. Proof I can take an idea to a working thing quickly.
Vanilla JSlocalStoragePWA-ish
Ops · Ongoing
Self-hosted infrastructure
This very site runs on an Ubuntu VPS I administer — Caddy for automatic HTTPS, several sites side by side, and SSH locked to a private Tailscale network so it's never exposed to the public internet. I run the stack, not just deploy to someone else's.