Career Profile

Software Engineer with 5+ years building high-scale loyalty platforms, AI agent tooling, and microservices. Processes 34M+ transactions/year with $100M+ in rewards value across 35M+ loyalty members.

Experience

Software Engineer II

May 2021 - Present
Lowe's Companies, Inc. — Charlotte, NC

  • Architected Spring Boot microservices and REST APIs powering MyLowe's Rewards (2024) and MyLowe's Pro Rewards — MLPR (Feb 2025), processing 34M+ transactions/year and awarding $100M+ in Pro rewards across 35M+ loyalty members.
  • Built HomeCare+ (HC+) backend from the ground up — a $99/year associate-powered home maintenance subscription — delivered through nationwide launch (Mar 2026).
  • Engineered the MLPR American Express card integration (Apr 2026), including multi-tier points logic (Gold/Platinum/Titanium), redemption flows, and Synchrony issuer migration serving 70M+ onboarded accounts.
  • Integrated loyalty partnership campaigns — McDonald's Monopoly (Fall 2025), Circle K rewards, and the "Epically More Messi" World Cup campaign (May 2026) — driving member acquisition, engagement, and cross-brand reward fulfillment.
  • Pioneered SDD (Spec-Driven Development) using Spec Kit to deliver MCP-based AI agent tooling, wrapping internal platform services as LLM-accessible tools; built SRE triage automation resolving 95% of tickets autonomously and eliminating a ~250-ticket backlog in one week.
  • Owned CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spinnaker) on GCP ensuring zero-downtime deploys; authored Cucumber/JUnit test suites with JMeter load profiles for high-throughput Kafka-backed services.

Software Engineer

September 2019 - January 2022
Grainhouse LLC — Tallahassee, FL

  • Co-founded Hire Wells, an intelligent sourcing chatbot for Slack and Microsoft Teams; architected end-to-end on Python, AWS, and Slack/Teams/Intercom APIs.

Education

BS in Computer Science

August 2018 - December 2021
Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

  • Concentration in Mathematics.

Projects

Octobot — Open-Source Group Expense Tracker -
Co-creator & tech lead (4 developers) | React/Ionic + Python/Flask + SQLite | CI/CD via GitHub Actions to Firebase
OpenClaw Agent Ecosystem — AI Automation -
Designed and deployed 10+ autonomous AI agent skills — trading automation, email triage, calendar orchestration, e-commerce workflows — using SDD, MCP tooling, and an open-source agent orchestration framework

Skills & Proficiency

Java / Spring Boot

Python / Flask

JavaScript / TypeScript

MCP / AI Agent Tooling

SDD (Spec-Driven Development)

REST APIs / Apache Kafka

GCP / Kubernetes / Docker

PostgreSQL / SQL / Couchbase

CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker)

Testing (JUnit, Cucumber, JMeter)