Principal, Nullframe Systems
Austin, since 2022. Backend and infrastructure work for scheduling, payments and logistics teams, mostly on six to twelve week scopes.
Profile
Fifteen years of backend work, in order.
An Austin engineering practice that designs, builds and reviews backend systems for teams that need a senior pair of hands.
Practice boundary
What this practice does—and what it hands off.
Backend systems, infrastructure and review work. Front-end design, mobile apps and open-ended staff augmentation get referred out to people who do them better.
Experience
Where the work came from.
Staff engineer, logistics platform
2018 to 2022. Owned the dispatch and routing services, and the on-call rota that came with them.
Backend engineer, payments
2014 to 2018. Card capture, refunds and reconciliation, including a long stretch on idempotency after a bad weekend.
Qualifications
What can be checked.
- 01
BS in computer science, University of Texas at Austin, 2014.
- 02
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, renewed 2025.
- 03
Working day to day in Go, Python, Postgres, Terraform and Cloudflare Workers.