Hippo Manager Software, Inc.

Engineering Manager | 2022 - 2025

• Led the engineering team and managed AWS infrastructure, GitHub organization, and technical administration across the company.
• Reduced AWS costs by over $6,000/month through infrastructure refinements upon promotion.
• Migrated the entire local development stack and eligible AWS infrastructure to Docker.
• Drove product direction, created Figma prototypes, and gathered feature feedback directly from veterinary clients.
• Maintained the platform through end of life after acquisition by Shepherd Veterinary Software.

Kalamazoo Valley Community College

Technical Lead | 2017 - 2022

• Shipped 11+ web applications end-to-end, spanning Vue.js front-ends, back-end APIs, data seeders, and CI/CD.
• Replaced legacy institutional systems, including a department directory from the early 2000s and several manual administrative workflows.
• Navigated complex technical challenges including multi-system authentication pass-through and cron-based data seeding from network-restricted Oracle data sources.
• Ran requirement-gathering meetings across academic departments, HR, and faculty.
• Collaborated with designers and back-end developers, bridging different problem-solving perspectives.

The L.I.V.E. Outreach

L.I.V.E. Outreach (nonprofit)

Astro, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Keystatic, Cloudflare

Built and launched a full nonprofit website with an in-browser CMS, automated social share cards, structured data for search and AI discoverability, and a 100/100 accessibility score on every page. Runs on nonprofit-eligible tiers for approximately $15/year.

Hippo Manager 2.0

Hippo Manager Software, Inc.

Vue.js, Laravel, GraphQL, MySQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Tailwind CSS

Cloud-based practice management platform for veterinary clinics covering billing, scheduling, client management, reporting, and treatments.