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Castle Risk Online
Personal Project2025 - present
Castle Risk Online is an online multiplayer board game with chat, animations, and AI players. It supports social login, mobile, dark mode, and is a blast to play with family and friends.
The game is built with React, with jotai for atomic state management on the frontend, and optimistic state synchronization viaWebSockets, proxied thru a K8s (Kubernetes) ingress controller equipped with Cert Manager to the underlying Express JS servers, which autoscale based on tcp connection rules, and use RxJS for Functional Programming stream processing of game events.
Key Results
- Launched fully functional multiplayer game with realtime chat, social login, mobile + desktop support, dark mode
- Achieved <200ms latency for real-time game state synchronization across all players
- Kubernetes + Skaffold used for cloud-agnostic deployments

Sourceability
Electronic Component Parts Distributor2019 - 2020
My PM and the business wanted to illustrate to other teams that a fast-paced, fail-fast approach where we released daily (as opposed to 1-3 times per year) would serve us much better in that we could learn quickly, iterate and pivot, without huge costly investments into products that did not meet expectations or deadlines.
Before hiring my team, I set up a CICD pipeline and basic framework of a site that could sustain a heavy and intense crawl from google.
New hires all released to production on their first day of work - a principle I had brought to the table, that it should be so automated and simple that someone could set up and deploy a small feature within their first few hours of working at Sourceability.
Our parts and datasheets website, which also incorporated proprietary availability and quality scores, was used - within 3 months of inception - to successfully sell a 3 year Analytics API contract to an international multibillion dollar company, as well as driving organic traffic and learning how to scale to sustain google crawls of the hundreds of thousands of electronic component parts in our inventory while scaling down outside of the crawl / high-traffic moments.
- Full Stack - React, NodeJS, Typescript, Kubernetes, Gitlab
- Functional Reactive Programming - RxJS, highlandjs
- Daily Production Deploys - Canary Deployment w/ K8s
- Constant Collaboration - No “throwing over the wall”
- CI/CD Automation Pipeline - Every user story gets an instant shareable environment
- Coaching / Mentoring / Leading diverse team
Key Results
- Secured $3M analytics API contract within 3 months of product launch
- Achieved 400% increase in organic search index uptake thru SEO optimization
- Enabled team to deploy on day one reducing time-to-first-deploy from weeks to hours

Heartpoints.org
The Currency of Good2019 - 2023
A working prototype and specs for how heartpoints would be rewarded and exchanged and linked to "Proof of Good" that could be validated off-chain (since proof of good in this case may for example, be video evidence or other data that is too large to fit onto the chain), using a strategy of hashing the proof and storing the hash and URL of the proof's off-chain content.
Key Results
- Built blockchain-based "proof-of-good" currency prototype with off-chain validation
- Motivated a team of 5 to ideate and experiment on making the world a better place