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A showcase of professional work and personal projects demonstrating expertise in distributed systems, AI integration, cross-platform development, and cloud-native architecture.

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Featured Projects

Vernal Financial — Enterprise Financial Platform (Teaching Project)

Architect & Technical Lead

• Several months

Designed an enterprise-grade financial platform as a teaching and coordination project to train a cross-functional junior team in professional software engineering practices, domain modeling, and system architecture.

Financial ServicesInformation TechnologySoftware and IT ServicesEducation

Technologies

Domain-Driven DesignKotlinSpring BootTypeScript +3

Key Tasks

  • Designed a realistic financial domain model including accounts, financial instruments, transactions, billing cycles, and identity
  • Established architectural boundaries and service responsibilities aligned with enterprise financial systems
  • Led and mentored a junior cross-functional team across backend, frontend, UX, and DevOps disciplines
  • Guided team members through professional development workflows including code reviews, architectural discussions, and system reasoning

Business Outcomes

  • Successfully trained a junior team to collaborate on and reason about enterprise-grade systems
  • Enabled multiple participants to use the project as a portfolio artifact in interviews, resulting in successful job placements
  • Demonstrated the ability to transmit architectural judgment and systems thinking, not just implementation skills

Diagram

Vernal Financial domain model UML diagram showing entity relationships
Domain model showing financial entities, accounts, transactions, and identity relationships
Professional

Interactive Resume Application

Full-Stack Developer

• Ongoing

This very application! A modern, accessible, and responsive web application built with Nuxt 4 and Nuxt UI to showcase professional experience and skills with interactive visualizations and a focus on accessibility.

Developer Tools

Technologies

Nuxt 4Vue 3TypeScriptTailwind CSS +6

Key Results

  • WCAG 2.1 AA compliant
  • Perfect Lighthouse accessibility score
  • Responsive design for all screen sizes

Business Outcomes

  • Created engaging way to showcase technical skills
  • Demonstrated full-stack development capabilities
  • Established reusable component patterns

Technical Challenges

  • Balancing visual appeal with accessibility requirements
  • Optimizing chart rendering for performance
  • Creating responsive layouts for complex data visualizations
Personal

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