Systems, incentives & execution

Building a systems lab: product-first experiments, reusable tooling extraction, and advisory work focused on decentralized application architecture and backend systems.

• Developed Ronin-integrated application systems and supporting backend services.
• Built modular tooling from production constraints (dashboards, utilities, governance-oriented prototypes).
• Current work includes developing a casual puzzle game to study player profile systems, persistence, and identity.

Grew and maintained a small, high-retention guild while building lightweight tooling to track performance and incentives. Focus: player systems, measurement, and long-term loyalty.

• Scaled from 0 → 150 players, then intentionally consolidated to a core of 3 highly loyal long-term players.
• Built scripts and simple leaderboards to track contribution and performance over time.
• Designed incentive rules and community processes to reduce churn and improve retention.
• Handled community management: onboarding, expectation-setting, conflict resolution, and cadence.

Occasional project-based work across web development, backend systems, and technical writing. Not continuous—selected engagements based on scope and learning value.

• Delivered web applications and backend features for small teams and solo founders.
• Wrote technical documentation to clarify systems, APIs, and implementation choices.
• Worked across frontend and backend as needed to ship end-to-end deliverables.

Supported research work through data preparation, analysis, and reproducible scripting. Focus: getting reliable results from messy real-world datasets.

• Built Python and R scripts for cleaning, transforming, and analyzing datasets.
• Produced repeatable analysis pipelines and clear outputs for public researchers.
• Contributed to interpretation and presentation of results.

Worked on backend services around authentication flows (Mobile Connect), focusing on reliability, correctness, and integration constraints typical of identity systems.

• Contributed to backend development for authentication services.
• Worked with security-sensitive flows and integration requirements.
• Improved implementation clarity through documentation and structured testing habits.

Formal training in distributed systems concepts and engineering foundations. Focus areas included networking, system design, reliability, and concurrency.

• Distributed systems foundations: coordination, failure modes, and tradeoffs.
• System design thinking applied through projects and coursework.