Developer of Laravel Applications & Craft CMS Websites

I make the web work better for people so I can raise my kids and build my action figure empire.

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Featured Work

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TextSpot.io

I was a co-founder and Laravel/Vue developer for the TextSpot SMS/MMS marketing app serving 1,000+ business customers, leading full-stack Laravel/Inertia/Vue development and database schema design from concept through production launch.

  • Designed aspects of the database schema pertaining to message templates, queued messages and sent messages.
  • Developed services to queue SMS messages via the Twilio API and webhooks to listen for status updates.
  • Built automated compliance systems including spam/illegal content screening and recipient opt-out management to ensure regulatory compliance
  • Developed components that enabled customers to import their contacts and organize them into marketing lists.

Carmony

I was a co-founder and PHP/Laravel developer for Carmony, a car dealership lead generation service that matched car buyers with vehicles that fit their lifestyles.

  • Designed the database schema of the Laravel application.
  • Developed services that periodically imported vehicle inventory from numerous aggregators such as Dealer Specialties, Dealer eOps and Dealer Socket.
  • Developed services that fetched make/model info and car history from APIS provided by Edmunds API, NHTSA and VIN Audit.
  • Developed an early version of the "Carmonizer" responsible for rating vehicles on various car model data obtained via the third-party APIs.
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