Pivoting from a Computer Engineering degree and embedded-systems teaching into backend software engineering, through a structured ~400-hour self-directed program.
What I build: secure, tested REST APIs — real deployments, real databases, defense-in-depth auth, integration tests against live Postgres.
- Twitter Bookmark Organizer — multi-user REST API, JWT auth, BOLA-safe row scoping, tiered rate limiting. Live · Case study
- World Cup Data Pipeline — CSV → PostgreSQL ingestion pipeline with chunked batch inserts, idempotent upserts, Redis cache-aside. Live · Case study
- csv-parser — open-source contribution: found and fixed a
raw: truemode regression in a 1.5k★ npm package. PR open, under review.
Node.js · Express · PostgreSQL · Knex · Redis · Jest/Supertest · JWT/bcrypt


