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Software engineer and tech lead with 13+ years shipping consumer products — kids'
learning platforms, multiplayer games, AI research tools, and the cloud infrastructure
beneath them. Fluent across web (Next.js, React), mobile (React Native + Expo), game
development (Unity 6), and serverless Amazon Web Services (AWS) — SST, Lambda,
Aurora Serverless, AWS Batch. Currently a founding engineer on the rebooted Noggin,
where I took the product from zero to a live App Store launch. Deep in AI-assisted and
agentic development workflows — clear-eyed about how AI tooling is reshaping the
senior engineer bar in 2026.More...