Feb 2026 — Present
Minneapolis, MN
Technical Lead & Product Owner
Xecutive Development (Andrews Lawn & Snow)Embedded as lead engineer, architect, and product owner for a 7-state, 16-office field service company. Discovered operational gaps, defined requirements from first principles, and shipped 9 production systems in 4 months — 8 live at public URLs.
- Built the Operator Portal — the system-of-record between 'work was done in the field' and 'the operator is paid and can see why.' Rails 8 API + React/TypeScript, RBAC across three roles, a pay & retainer engine with 4 payroll calculators and a full audit trail, support ticketing with atomic approval → pay line item. 400+ backend specs, Playwright E2E.
- Built an AI snow dispatch pipeline — Python + OpenAI that fetches emails from Microsoft Graph, transcribes voicemails, classifies complaints, fuzzy-matches customers to Airtable, and generates bilingual (EN/ES) dispatch notes. Eliminated all manual winter triage.
- Engineered a multi-service customer enrollment app with Stripe SubscriptionSchedule installments, Avalara real-time multi-jurisdiction tax, DocuSign pre-fill across 43 fields, and MongoDB audit snapshots — 21 system tests including a 16-matrix payment flow E2E run.
- Operate a production email platform dispatching 10,000+ emails per batch across 7 states — Sidekiq pipeline over 7 OptimoRoute accounts, Airtable bulk resolution, and Microsoft Graph OAuth2 throttled to Exchange Online limits.
- Provisioned a self-hosted Proxmox private cloud (5 production Debian VMs, Caddy, Cloudflare Tunnel, GitHub Actions CI/CD) with same-day deploys from a single git push; resolve production incidents across the whole stack.
