Projects

Case studies of high-impact engineering projects demonstrating technical leadership, system design expertise, and measurable business outcomes. Each project showcases the STAR methodology: Situation, Task, Action, and Result.

Hotels4Truckers Platform Turnaround

Situation:Hotels4Truckers, a hotel booking platform for truck drivers, ran on a 5-year-old agency-built Laravel API and Nuxt web app with 3 API tests, CI switched off, unauthenticated production routes and a hotel search that often never finished.

Task:As CTO and sole engineer, make the platform safe to change, secure and fast, then add suppliers and payments to grow inventory and bookings.

Action:Restored CI and built out test suites, closed open routes and added a CI route audit, rebuilt search batching and the nightly catalog sync, built a provider-agnostic booking layer with an idempotent payment saga on Nexio/NMI, and ran production data migrations behind tested backups, using an AI-agent workflow for 1,000+ commits.

Result:Tests from 3 to 2,390 (API) and 0 to 478 (web); 2 new supplier APIs integrated, supplier catalog from 16K to 94K hotels; search from never finishing to under 27s; nightly sync from 9h43m to 4h30m; 21 prod migrations with zero bookings lost; monthly bookings up 63% (April to August 2026).

LaravelPHPNuxtVueTypeScriptMySQLRedisTerraformDigitalOceanCloudflare

VIP TypeScript Migration

Situation:Vermont Information Processing had 10+ legacy codebases written in JavaScript with inconsistent types, making maintenance difficult and increasing bug risk.

Task:Lead the migration to TypeScript across all repositories while maintaining system stability and team velocity.

Action:Established migration patterns, created type definitions, set up automated type checking in CI/CD, and mentored team members on TypeScript best practices.

Result:10+ repositories migrated, 40% reduction in runtime errors, improved developer productivity and code maintainability.

TypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsGitHub ActionsESLintJest

CI/CD Automation Platform

Situation:Manual deployment processes were causing delays, inconsistencies, and requiring significant developer time for releases.

Task:Design and implement a fully automated CI/CD pipeline to streamline deployments and reduce human error.

Action:Built GitHub Actions workflows with automated testing, Docker containerization, infrastructure provisioning via Ansible, and zero-downtime deployments to AWS.

Result:80% reduction in deployment time, 95% decrease in deployment failures, enabled multiple daily releases.

GitHub ActionsDockerAnsibleAWSTerraformNode.jsBash

Dynamic Preview Environments

Situation:QA team lacked isolated environments for testing feature branches, leading to delayed feedback and integration issues.

Task:Create on-demand preview environments that spin up automatically for each pull request.

Action:Designed infrastructure-as-code solution using Docker Compose and AWS ECS, integrated with GitHub webhooks to automatically provision and teardown environments.

Result:35% reduction in bugs reaching production, 50% faster QA feedback cycles, improved developer confidence.

DockerAWS ECSGitHub ActionsTerraformNode.jsMySQLNginx

AWS Cloud Infrastructure Optimization

Situation:VIP systems were experiencing frequent downtime due to poor infrastructure architecture and lack of monitoring.

Task:Redesign cloud infrastructure to improve reliability, scalability, and observability.

Action:Implemented multi-AZ deployments, auto-scaling groups, CloudWatch monitoring and alerting, RDS read replicas, and disaster recovery procedures.

Result:15% reduction in downtime, improved system resilience, reduced operational costs by 20% through resource optimization.

AWSEC2RDSCloudWatchLambdaS3Route53Terraform

React Native App Rewrite - Personify

Situation:Legacy mobile apps had poor performance, high crash rates, and required separate codebases for iOS and Android.

Task:Rewrite mobile applications using React Native to unify codebases and improve user experience.

Action:Led cross-functional team to architect and build new React Native app with shared business logic, offline-first architecture, and comprehensive testing.

Result:40% reduction in development costs, 60% faster feature delivery, unified codebase across platforms, 4.5+ star app rating.

React NativeTypeScriptReduxJestAWS AmplifyGraphQLiOSAndroid