Software Engineer · Backend & Infrastructure — Computer Science graduate, Colorado State University (Networks & Security concentration)
I build backend systems and the infrastructure they run on. I've written REST APIs in Java with SQL and automated testing, and built a full AWS platform with Terraform, Docker, and secure CI/CD. I'm currently building a Python/FastAPI backend with PostgreSQL.
Looking for early-career software engineering roles in backend, infrastructure, platform, and developer tooling. Open to relocation (Chicago · Austin · New York City · Washington, DC · Denver) and remote.
Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · AWS · Terraform · Docker · GitHub Actions — Repo
A backend service running on production-style AWS infrastructure I built with Terraform. The infrastructure layer is complete. The application layer is in progress.
Infrastructure (complete)
- 40+ AWS resources across 6 Terraform modules with remote state locking, with single-command deploy and teardown
- Three-tier VPC (ALB → ECS Fargate → RDS PostgreSQL) with least-privilege security group chaining
- Event-driven auto-remediation of risky IAM and security group changes (EventBridge → Lambda → SNS)
- Keyless CI/CD via GitHub Actions OIDC federation, plus four security gates (Gitleaks, Checkov, Trivy, terraform validate)
Backend (in progress)
- Python/FastAPI REST API that ingests cloud security findings and maps them to NIST 800-53 controls
- PostgreSQL schema with migrations, plus pytest unit and integration tests running in CI
Java · Spark Java · MariaDB · JDBC · JUnit · Mockito · Maven — Repo
- REST endpoints with versioned request/response contracts validated against JSON schemas
- Route optimization using nearest-neighbor construction with a 2-opt improvement pass
- SQL-backed location search with hand-written JDBC queries
- Unit and integration tests with JUnit and Mockito, with branch coverage tracked by JaCoCo in CI
- Languages: Python · Java · SQL · Bash
- Backend: REST APIs · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · MariaDB · JDBC · pytest · JUnit · Mockito
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (VPC, ECS Fargate, ALB, RDS, Lambda, EventBridge, S3, IAM) · Terraform · Docker · Linux
- DevOps: Git · GitHub Actions · CI/CD · OIDC federation · Infrastructure as Code
- Security & Networking: Least-privilege IAM · secrets management · GuardDuty · Security Hub · CloudTrail · TCP/IP · DNS · subnetting
AWS Solutions Architect – Associate · HashiCorp Terraform Associate · CompTIA Security+ · CompTIA Network+