23 years of Java/Spring, CI/CD, and legacy modernization, most recently 12 years leading architecture for ~30 Group Life applications at a Fortune 500 insurer. Available for remote contract work.
I'm a physics-educated software engineer with 23 years building and modernizing enterprise systems, from DoD defense modeling to insurance platforms at Fortune 500 scale.
Most of my recent work is the unglamorous part that keeps big systems alive: Java/Spring services, CI/CD pipelines, containerized delivery to OpenShift and Docker Swarm, mainframe DB2 and WebSphere modernization, and security remediation across dozens of applications. I lead teams onshore and offshore, and I still write the code.
I use AI coding assistants (Claude, GitHub Copilot) every day, and I've built a few Claude API projects of my own. I'll tell you what's possible and what isn't, up front.
Spring Boot REST services, OpenAPI contracts, multi-threaded batch and data tools. Built to be maintained, not just to demo.
Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Jenkins, and UrbanCode pipelines with security scans, quality gates, and smoke tests built in. Reusable templates teams actually adopt.
Mainframe DB2, WebSphere, and green-screen systems moved to modern web apps and containers on OpenShift and Docker Swarm.
Veracode and SonarQube findings, Log4j, XSS, and SQL injection fixed at the source, plus the training so they stay fixed.
Architecture across a ~30-application portfolio, SAFe, Scrum Master, Git Flow discipline, and mentoring engineers and interns.
Claude API wired into real services, and AI-assisted development in daily work. Hands-on and practical, not an ML research pitch.
Lead Architect over ~30 Group Life applications at a Fortune 500 insurer: Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, containerized delivery to OpenShift, a .NET Core rules engine replacing 1,000+ manual rules, a Blue/Green deployment model on Docker Swarm, and org-wide security remediation (Log4j, XSS/SQL injection, WebSphere migrations).
A multi-tenant assistant a business puts on its website to answer customer questions in its own voice, with guardrails. One Cloudflare Worker serves the REST API and every client page, backed by D1 and the Claude API with streaming responses and per-client rate limiting. Designed with an AI assistant (Claude), which wrote most of the code. A product of Chase Energy LLC.
A live bot integrating the Claude API, deployed through a full pipeline from local development through GitHub to AWS EC2 under pm2 process management.
A Python/BeautifulSoup scraper feeding a Java combinatorics engine that computes probability and expected value across all available scratch-off prizes.
Architecture and hands-on development across an enterprise Group Life portfolio: CI/CD, containerization, rules engines, mainframe modernization, and high-throughput call-center systems.
DoD hazard modeling supporting Northrop Grumman, and missile-tracking filters for Missile Defense Agency trade studies: Java, C++, and Fortran on Linux, PKI security modules, Windows-to-Linux ports.
B.S. Mathematics, Stockton State College.
Need a senior Java engineer or architect on contract? Let's talk.
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