Living specifications and tooling that keep AI coding agents in lockstep with product context. CLI-installable, MIT licensed.
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Software architect, consultant, and engineering leader. Seventeen years building mission-critical systems for defense, enterprise, and commercial clients — from radar warning receivers to Kubernetes-native mission platforms with 100+ engineer teams.
Currently Director of Solutions Architecture at Clarity Innovations, leading architecture for an Air Force mission system. Open to a small number of advisory and architecture engagements as the owner of Baller Software.
§ 01Selected
Work
07 ITEMSA Node CLI that aggregates scattered Git documentation into one citadel corpus humans and AI agents can reason over.
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Lead architect of an Air Force mission system. Derived architectural patterns through Domain-Driven Design and reactive principles for a 100+ engineer program.
DDDEvent StormingReactiveJava / Spring
Engagement details under NDA / clearance
Modernized an ISR system of record onto Kubernetes and cloud-native primitives. Improved scalability, deploy cadence, and maintainability across the program.
KubernetesPolyglotDataCloud-Native
Engagement details under NDA / clearance
Microservices and cloud architecture work at VMware Tanzu / Broadcom Software serving thousands of enterprise users.
MicroservicesCloudKubernetesDistributed Systems
Enterprise engagement — references on request
A static Next.js resume + portfolio. SEO-tuned, accessible, light/dark, deploys to GitHub Pages with a custom domain.
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§ 02Profile
About
RESUME · CVExperience
- October 2024 - Present · CurrentDirector of Solutions ArchitectureClarity Innovations
- Works directly with customer leadership to steer technical direction
- Operates as the Lead Architect of an Air Force mission system
- Makes team leadership decisions including team structure, staffing, and tasking
- Develops patterns and architectural components leveraged by apps and services within the mission system suite
- Derived mission system architectural patterns using Domain Driven Design
07 - April 2021 - October 2024 · 3 years 6 monthsStaff Engineer II (Director Equivalent)Broadcom / VMware
- Led organizations through complicated consulting relationships
- Architect of complex mission software systems including Air Force mission system and Army Software Factory applications
- Supported Army as Engineering Practice Lead for 60+ soldier engineers
- Developed evaluation rubrics and criteria to drive consistent evaluation of skills across numerous cohorts
- Supported numerous DoD agencies in production and modernization of software solutions
- Taught service members of various skill levels software engineering techniques and practices
- Instituted best engineering practices across large organizations including lean and extreme programming
- Achieved Staff 2 level promotion in extremely competitive, volatile corporate environment
06 - January 2019 - April 2021 · 2 years 4 monthsChief EngineerL3Harris
- Lead engineer over complex Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) system of record
- Managed a team of 40+ software, systems, and test engineers
- Grew and trained a leadership team to effectively lead the large team
- Successfully transitioned the large program to agile software methodologies
- Developed an architecture enabling deployment of complex mission system to the cloud
- Changed engineering tracking and task management to better inform future bids
- Actively involved in all phases of proposal and bidding lifecycle for multi-million dollar contracts
- Primary Engineering point of contact for customer, fostering healthy relationship that lasted years after leaving
- Engineered complex testing and software solutions around airborne Radar Warning Receivers (RWRs)
- Developed curriculum and taught highly technical course to multiple DoD services and countries
05 - March 2017 - January 2019 · 1 year 10 monthsTech LeadL3 Technologies
- Led an R&D project team from idea to successful demonstration in 1 year
- Worked with distributed systems, reactive architectures, microservices, containerization, and asynchronous programming
- Designed a scalable, resilient software architecture from the ground up
- Applications included mission systems, ground systems, big-data analytics, and more
- Successfully advocated for newer technologies resulting in more capable products with less time and money spent
- Developed and delivered briefs to multiple potential customers and collaborators
04 - January 2013 - March 2017 · 4 years 3 monthsSoftware Team LeadNAVAIR
- Defined, documented, designed, and developed software applications for engineers and analysts to aggregate, analyze and visualize flight and lab test data
- Managed up to seven simultaneous engineers and interns, including tasking, training, teaching, and technical guidance
- Interviewed and hired eight interns
- Designed and implemented a plug-in architecture for quick addition of new features
- Created custom Java Swing elements for enhanced user experience
- Increased user base from one customer to four through technical meetings and demonstrations
- Project funding increased to nearly $400,000
- Set-up and managed closed development network including enterprise tools
03 - August 2012 - March 2013 · 8 monthsMission Data Generator Software EngineerNAVAIR
- Participated in entire life-cycle of software tool-set for Naval Air Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)
- Gathered requirements and wrote software requirement documentation
- Worked with government contractors on implementation of new features
- Tested software and documented anomalies with suggested solutions
- Implemented features using C#
- Created and utilized training curriculum for foreign and domestic customers
- Designed database schema upgrades
02 - March 2008 - August 2012 · 4 years 6 monthsEngineering Aid / Mission Data / SystemsNAVAIR
- Developed mission data libraries for Naval Air RWR to protect aircrew
- Tested hardware and software, documented and analyzed issues
- Trained mission data and system engineers on RWR and intelligence analysis
- Started and maintained closed network wiki for technical knowledge
- Assisted in teaching technical courses overseas
- Chaired technical reviews
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§ 03Get in touch
Contact
OPEN · Q2/Q3 2026Have a system worth getting right? Let's talk.
Best for architecture reviews, mission-critical system design, engineering practice leadership, and turning around programs that have outgrown their architecture. Currently scoping a small number of engagements for the back half of 2026.