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Work

Projects I owned or made major contributions to throughout my career.

BuiltFast Developer Portal

Documentation hub, API reference, blog, and open source showcase for BuiltFast — the first site I've built in 28 years where the design a...

Jekyll Tailwind CSS Alpine.js
2025

BuiltFast, LLC

Quark

Hosting business management platform handling customers, billing, provisioning, and support — the customer-facing half of BuiltFast's inf...

Laravel PHP Vue.js
2025

BuiltFast, LLC

Genesis

Hosting provisioning API built on Laravel 12 that handles the complete lifecycle of web hosting accounts and VPS instances for BuiltFast.

Laravel PHP Hosting
2025

BuiltFast, LLC

A2 Playwright

End-to-end browser testing framework for A2 Hosting's critical web applications, with CI/CD pipeline integration and Slack alerting on fa...

CI/CD End-to-End Testing GitHub Actions
2024

A2 Hosting, Inc

Storytime

Ruby CLI tool to automate JIRA sprint reporting — reduced weekly report generation from 15-20 minutes of manual work to seconds.

Ruby CLI Jira
2024

A2 Hosting, Inc

GoCart

Custom Laravel checkout application at cart.a2hosting.com, replacing WHMCS's built-in order flow with a modern storefront for all hosting...

Laravel PHP Stripe
2023

A2 Hosting, Inc

TurboHub

Distributed WordPress site management platform serving 385,000+ sites across 5,000+ servers — designed the three-tier architecture and le...

Laravel Laravel Zero PHP
2023

A2 Hosting, Inc

SOS Bot

Ruby automation that syncs PagerDuty on-call schedules to Slack user groups, so @-mentioning the on-call team always reaches the right pe...

Ruby Automation PagerDuty
2022

A2 Hosting, Inc

A2 Background Jobs

Custom WHMCS addon module providing a database-backed job queue for long-running tasks like reports and bulk operations.

PHP MySQL WHMCS
2020

A2 Hosting, Inc

a2d

CLI toolkit for A2 Hosting's dev team — reduced environment bootstrap from multi-day manual setups to same-day onboarding using a sub/rbe...

Bash PHP CLI
2019

A2 Hosting, Inc

On-Call Holiday Notifier

AWS Lambda function that alerts on-call teams when scheduled responders have PTO or company holidays, preventing coverage gaps.

Ruby AWS Lambda PagerDuty
2018

Envato Pty Ltd.

ThemeForest Marketplace

Infrastructure and reliability work on Envato's ThemeForest marketplace monolith — database optimization on 50M+ row tables, systematic t...

Ruby Rails MySQL
2018

Envato Pty Ltd.

Hosted Orders API

Rails checkout application with a React frontend, replacing the monolith's order flow for Envato Hosted with Braintree payment processing.

Ruby Rails React
2018

Envato Pty Ltd.

Author Managed Designs

Self-service system allowing ThemeForest authors to manage their WordPress theme demos on Envato Hosted, with a custom archiving pipeline.

Ruby Rails Sidekiq
2018

Envato Pty Ltd.

Bender Builds

Automated WordPress theme bundling system for Envato Hosted, packaging themes and their dependencies into near-instant site setups for ne...

Ruby Rails Capybara
2017

Envato Pty Ltd.

MWP Lazy Upgrader

WordPress plugin that cut plugin upgrade times on network filesystems from over 2 minutes to 30 seconds using symlinks and deferred backg...

PHP WordPress Bash
2016

Pressed, LLC

2adays.com

Coach rating platform for college recruiting — built and shipped a full Rails application in 6 weeks working nights and weekends, designe...

Ruby Rails MySQL
2016

2aDays, LLC

Partner Panel

White-label management dashboard for Pressed's hosting partners, with role-based access to customer data, reports, and troubleshooting to...

Ruby Rails JavaScript
2015

Pressed, LLC

Pressed Bundles

Automated WordPress theme bundling system — the original version of what became Bender Builds and Author Managed Designs after the Envato...

Ruby Rails PHP
2015

Pressed, LLC

Campagna Restaurant Website DevOps

DevOps consulting for a Statamic restaurant site — automated deployments, staging environments, monitoring, and integration testing.

Ruby Capistrano Statamic
2015

Campagna Restaurant, LLC

Website.me

Consumer-facing hosting brand built as a white-label instance of Helix, providing single sign-on access to cPanel and WordPress through a...

Ruby Rails Rack
2014

World Wide Web Hosting, LLC

Wormhole

CLI utility and Ruby library for migrating ~10,000 customers from legacy WHMCS billing systems into Helix, with encrypted transfer of sen...

Ruby Rails MySQL
2013

World Wide Web Hosting, LLC

Helix

Multi-app Rails billing and hosting platform spanning three companies over eight years — a ground-up rewrite of Synco built for maintaina...

Ruby Rails Rails Engines
2011

World Wide Web Hosting, LLC / Pressed, LLC / Envato Pty Ltd.

Synco

Legacy billing system for Site5 — optimized a 10-minute page load to under 1 minute, led security hardening, and built VPS provisioning f...

Ruby Rails MySQL
2011

World Wide Web Hosting, LLC

Liberty Sports Group Website

Custom WordPress theme and plugins for a local athletic organization, with Capistrano deployment pipeline for staging and production.

PHP WordPress jQuery
2011

Liberty Sports Group, LLC

iZabbix

iPhone app for VoIP engineers to receive real-time Zabbix monitoring alerts, backed by a Rails API with XMPP bot and Apple Push Notificat...

JavaScript Appcelerator Titanium Ruby
2010

ViaTalk, LLC

DotBlock Mobile

iPhone app for DotBlock VPS customers, backed by a Sinatra REST API bridging WHMCS billing and SolusVM hypervisors.

JavaScript Appcelerator Titanium Ruby
2010

DotBlock.com, Inc

DotBlock Order Form

Rails-based VPS order form for DotBlock with real-time pricing, WHMCS billing integration, and automated PBX callbacks on new sales.

Ruby Rails jQuery
2010

DotBlock.com, Inc

Ennouncement

Call broadcasting platform — Rails web app, iPhone app, and Asterisk telephony. Shipped the originally scoped application in about a week...

Ruby Rails PHP
2010

ViaTalk, LLC

ViaTalk Voicemail Player

Three-component system for web-based voicemail playback — Ruby daemon for WAV-to-MP3 conversion, PHP API for file serving, and jQuery aud...

Ruby PHP CodeIgniter
2009

ViaTalk, LLC

Will Dikker

Vehicle classifieds marketplace with SMS text-in via physical stickers — built the full Rails backend including payment processing, geolo...

Ruby Rails MySQL
2009

Will Dikker, LLC

ViaTalk Control Panel

Primary customer and staff interface for ViaTalk's VoIP service — became sole developer responsible for maintenance, security, and new fe...

Ruby Rails MySQL
2008

ViaTalk, LLC

Let’s Call Santa

Holiday phone line where kids called Santa and left voicemails — built without asking anyone, shipped as an official ViaTalk promotion.

PHP CodeIgniter Ruby
2008

ViaTalk, LLC

ViaTalk PBX

Multi-tenant VoIP call center handling 500-1000 daily support calls across three companies — full-stack ownership from Linux hardening to...

PHP CodeIgniter Asterisk
2008

ViaTalk, LLC

LVEDC Portal Redesign

Commercial real estate portal rebuilt from ColdFusion to CodeIgniter, with property search, admin panel, and contact management.

PHP CodeIgniter MySQL
2008

Lebanon Valley Economic Development Corporation

Trackmaster

Internal dashboard for tracking employee work trends and support call history, with a Firefox extension for shipping and porting teams.

PHP CodeIgniter JavaScript
2008

ViaTalk, LLC

Creative Dance Arts Website

Three major versions of a dance school website over 11 years, including custom WordPress themes with member registration, PDF generation,...

PHP WordPress jQuery
2005

Creative Dance Arts, LLC

Inglenook Realty Website and CMS

Custom CMS and website for a local real estate agency, with ongoing upgrades over several years.

PHP CodeIgniter MySQL
2005

Inglenook Realty, Inc

Crawford Insurance Agency Website

Company website for a local insurance agency, designed and built with Fireworks and Dreamweaver.

PHP Fireworks Dreamweaver
2004

Crawford Insurance Agency

Childs Automotive Website Redesign

The first website I got paid for — a full redesign of a local auto repair shop's site, built with Fireworks MX and Dreamweaver MX.

HTML JavaScript Fireworks
2002

Childs Automotive