Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Working with GrowthLab on Rinashi, a Montreal classic-car accessories brand. Building a mobile-first product landing page as a custom Shopify Horizon product template.

Creating five to seven configurable custom sections, including reusable merchant-editable components. Defined product facts and prohibited claims in an implementation specification and used Claude Code with Shopify Dev MCP for AI-assisted development.

Building a white-label Shopify storefront for Rodentia Pest Products from agency Figma designs, including home, catalog, blog, and contact pages.

Implemented CAD-only pricing, Canada-only shipping, customer accounts, and Shopify Email lifecycle communications. Phased delivery to launch one-time purchases first while deferring subscriptions pending Shopify Payments verification, and scoped B2B gated pricing as a separate future phase.

Served as sole developer for a live-revenue US fitness membership platform with five membership tiers, more than 900 gated videos, WooCommerce Subscriptions, LearnDash, Stripe, and approximately 50 plugins.

Owned feature delivery and production incident response. Resolved MySQL OOM incidents, PHP-FPM saturation, a 64,000-row job queue backlog, WP-Cron outages, membership gating defects, and media migration requirements. Rebuilt checkout with Stripe Elements, designed recurring coupon logic, integrated Mailchimp through a custom asynchronous REST workflow, and implemented Sentry monitoring.

Led a four-person team consisting of a full-stack engineer, frontend developer, mobile developer, and product designer. Ran daily standups and owned technical direction for a healthcare communications platform.

Built an eight-user-type platform connecting nursing-home residents with family members, including live video calling and walkie-talkie-style push-to-talk functionality. Developed the platform using Django, Python, React, and PostgreSQL.

Delivered 37 production websites and applications for brands, agencies, startups, and nonprofits across eCommerce, SaaS, healthcare, real estate, and AI tooling.

Built and optimized 11 Shopify storefronts and WooCommerce solutions, developed Django and Django REST Framework backends, shipped React applications, and deployed systems across AWS, DigitalOcean, Cloudways, Render, Vercel, and Netlify. Also created AI audio-processing functionality using FastAPI and AssemblyAI.

Moderates and contributes technical content for a 3.8 million-plus member developer community.

Writes about architecture, APIs, Django, frontend development, and practical production engineering.

Built and redesigned websites for global nonprofits.

Focused on accessibility, SEO, performance, and maintainable web implementation.