Spot Bikes · Golden, CO

~10-person direct-to-consumer mountain and gravel bike manufacturer. Hired to build bikes; took over purchasing five months in, then business systems and IT.

Purchasing, Business Systems & IT Aug 2024 – Present

• Led the ERP migration from NetSuite to Katana MRP + QuickBooks Online: planned the cutover, migrated inventory, orders, and POs, retired the legacy NetSuite connectors for Shopify and eBay, stood up the replacement integrations, and worked alongside accounting through the first month-end closes on the new system.
• Designed and built Shogun (700+ PRs), a FastAPI / SQLAlchemy / Pydantic integration platform connecting Katana, Shopify, eBay, StockTrim, StatusPro, Front, and supplier systems, with shared domain models, a Vite/TypeScript configuration UI, a CLI, and a CI-verified PostgreSQL migration foundation (deterministic IDs, transactional apply, rehearsal step). Design captured in ADRs covering multi-supplier sourcing, BOM archetypes, and constrained-demand calculations.
• Built the Spot Suspension Calculator, a rider setup tool that started as a Google Sheet and is now a production web and mobile app: React 19 / TypeScript front end (1,100+ tests, 85%+ coverage), FastAPI / SQLAlchemy 2.0 / Python 3.13 back end with Shopify customer-account OAuth (PKCE), role-based admin, a built-in MCP server, and rate limiting; deployed on Render as one Docker service with managed Postgres. iOS and Android builds ship the same bundle through Capacitor 8, with signed release artifacts produced in CI.
• Built Spot Kiosk, the showroom appliance: an Electron / TypeScript macOS app that replaced Chrome, a Python web server, and six LaunchAgents with one universal binary, with idle recovery, showroom-hours display control, and unattended signed and notarized updates from GitHub Releases. Docker-defined build, SHA-pinned Actions, environment-gated release signing.
• Built comp-intel, a competitive-pricing platform: scrapers for Shopify, Nuxt, and headless Hydrogen storefronts, sale detection, cross-currency normalization, partial-scrape guards, and real-Postgres integration tests.
• Automated daily operations with LLM-agent workflows (Claude + MCP): order processing and MO creation, PO creation and receiving from supplier PDFs, B2B order reconciliation across SRAM, QBP, and BTI, eBay order entry, customer status confirmations, and website spec audits against master BOMs.
• Rebuilt spotbikes.com on Shopify’s Horizon theme (1,100+ PRs and issues): design-system tokens, system color mode, AA contrast, CI gating on six Python test suites. Currently leading the HubSpot migration off Klaviyo.
• Owned purchasing end to end: supplier relationships (SRAM, QBP, BTI, Gates, Industry Nine, Öhlins, Schwalbe, Ergon, WTB), PO lifecycle, pricing conventions, and MRP data modeling including frame-level BOMs.
• Also built: a suspension linkage kinematics calculator (React/canvas) and its .NET port as a SolidWorks add-in (xCAD.NET, Avalonia); a pneumatic brake-force test fixture (ATmega328P, HX711, interrupt-driven valve timing); the Apps Script build-queue system; the Spot Bike Configurator Shopify app; a Google/Meta Ads control room (Next.js, SQLite, MCP-backed reporting); the company runbooks and infrastructure plans. Ran all IT.

Apple · Cupertino, CA

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (joined as Solutions Engineer)

• Drove adoption of the internal CI platform across development teams, then moved into a development role on the platform itself.
• Designed and built the platform’s build-secrets management system, improving both security posture and developer workflow.
• Escalation point for complex build failures; delivered internal training on the CI system.

ReadyTalk · Denver, CO

Software Engineer, CI → DevTools Engineer

• Built and ran build and deployment infrastructure for multiple cross-functional teams: Gradle (including custom plugin development), Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, and Docker-based containerized deployment; JavaScript client and server build tooling. Increased deployment frequency and reduced integration failures.

Integware · Fort Collins, CO

Software Engineer Intern → Lead SCM / Build Engineer

• Led a small team owning build and deployment infrastructure for multiple product teams: introduced the Jenkins/Hudson continuous-build system, automated test-server deployments, and ran SCM, issue tracking, Oracle 10g/11g dev databases, and virtualization. Built multi-platform product installers and contributed to hardware purchase plans and budgets.
• Co-inventor, US9218179: automated software data-model and data upgrade system.