Background
About Dev
I'm a software engineer at Xolvio building event-sourced systems and fullstack apps. I contribute to the Solid.js core, maintain TanStack Start, and speak at conferences on async UI, sync engines, and modern web patterns. Active in the OSS ecosystem across the Solid and TanStack communities.
Work experience
- Building a machine learning platform for analysts running quantum algorithms
- Working with cutting-edge Event Sourcing, GraphQL, and AI technologies
- Built an AI-powered project management assistant to accelerate internal processes
- Built a next-gen member application for a healthcare company
- Implemented critical improvements for performance, developer experience, and cost efficiency
- Helped establish Clerk in the community during the hockey-stick growth period (5× managed users, 3× downloads, 2× company size, Series A and B)
- Engaged and supported a Discord community of 8k members and Twitter community of 14k followers
- Solidified Clerk's presence at 5 conferences through talks, workshops, demos, and product walkthroughs
- Curated community feedback to help prioritize work for the engineering team
- Led development of the Ohio Sentencing Data Platform in collaboration with the Ohio Supreme Court and 10+ counties
- Developed a suite of applications used by UC Corrections Institute and Department of Youth Services
- Identified and triaged project requirements in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Worked on an NSF- and Mozilla-funded research project with professors and graduate students
- Built an access control model for smart homes with automatic emergency detection, escalation, and response
- Published a paper at the ACM International Conference on Enhancing Smart Home Security
Open source
Core team member of the reactive UI framework — contributing to APIs, docs, and ecosystem direction.
Maintaining the fullstack SolidJS adapter for TanStack's type-safe router and server functions.
Library enabling server-side reactive primitives and real-time sync for SolidJS applications.
Event-driven primitives for SolidJS — composable, type-safe event emitters and listeners.
Cross-runtime WebSocket adapter, now under the h3js org, used under the hood in Nitro and H3.
Community
Steering committee member for Cincinnati's largest tech conference (500+ registrations). Built the attendee + speaker app.
Organized UC's largest hackathons — built and managed the website, server, database, and online services.
Led UC's largest student IT organization, providing weekly educational and networking events.
Education
BS in Information Technology, Software Development
University of Cincinnati
Aug 2018 – May 2023
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