The Digital Expedition

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Each waypoint marks a shift in scale: from building software, to shaping systems, to helping teams move with clarity.

  1. Waypoint 01

    Software development

    Building the craft foundation through product development, technical consulting, data analysis and self-hosted systems.

    2021-present

    • Built websites and product interfaces with React, Vue, Next.js and WordPress for startup clients.
    • Developed Python services with Flask and FastAPI backed by MongoDB and Redis.
    • Automated market-price analysis with SQL, Python and web-scraping workflows.

  2. Waypoint 02

    Solutions architecture

    Designed cloud, mobile and integration solutions for Principle Choice Consultants and Celbux.

    2023-2024

    • Built automated CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment times by 50%.
    • Architected a Flutter application and Google Cloud backend that supported 80% of an IoT startup's functional operation.
    • Applied cloud infrastructure to high-throughput FinTech systems delivered with Google and Deloitte collaborators.

  3. Waypoint 03

    DevOps engineering

    Built and secured infrastructure for Draslovka and Blue Cube Technologies across cloud and remote mining environments.

    2024-2025

    • Designed company-wide VPN infrastructure and centralized secure remote access.
    • Implemented automated backups and disaster recovery across source, databases and operational data.
    • Built Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Promtail observability with canary monitoring for early anomaly detection.

  4. Waypoint 04

    Senior technical leadership

    Led stabilization and greenfield re-architecture of Planet Fitness's Kubernetes-based consumer platform.

    2025-present

    • Resolved systemic runtime failures through scaling, node redundancy and structured observability.
    • Re-architected legacy workloads toward elastic, scale-to-zero services on Cloud Run.
    • Validated backend and database capacity assumptions through custom load and pressure testing.

  5. Waypoint 05

    Software engineering management

    Leads software engineering at Planet Fitness across product delivery, platform strategy and engineering operations.

    April 2026-present

    • Designed secure GitHub and Azure DevOps delivery governance with RBAC and automated build, test and deployment pipelines.
    • Automated mobile releases across the Apple App Store, Google Play and Huawei AppGallery with fastlane.
    • Introduced AI-assisted pull-request review, code standards and technical knowledge workflows.

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