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Engineering intelligent software that scales globally and delivers seamlessly.

Software engineer crafting secure, scalable, and delightful products.

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Feature Flag Manager01
Feature Flag Manager

Built an internal feature-flag management system on top of the AWS AppConfig API, replacing LaunchDarkly. Handles flag creation, environment-scoped rollouts, and config deployment without the per-seat licensing cost.

NextJS • AWS AppConfig
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Personal AI Assistant02
Personal AI Assistant

The on-site chat AI agent running on this portfolio. Answers visitor questions about my work while keeping every conversation private — no external logging.

OpenAI API • Supabase
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SamzZ Go03
SamzZ Go

Crafted an application leveraging OpenAI API to generate images from prompts and enable user interaction for quick AI solutions...

Flutter • OpenAI API
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React

Next.js

TypeScript

TailwindCSS

NestJS

AWS

React

Next.js

TypeScript

TailwindCSS

NestJS

AWS

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Software Engineer (L2)

Talent Systems, LLC (Casting Networks)

Nov 2025 – Present

Tech Stack

NestJSNextJSPostgreSQLAWSMUI

Key Contributions

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Part of a major cost-reduction initiative by building an internal media service that replaced Cloudinary and AWS Elemental across all company products — covering S3 media uploads, FFmpeg video transcoding, Sharp-based image transformation (multi-resolution and format variants), signed URL generation, and CloudFront CDN invalidation.

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Designed an event-based architecture publishing webhook events to drive asynchronous, decoupled processing workflows.

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Lead frontend development and architecture for R&D and production delivery initiatives across Casting Networks and StaffMeUp products.

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Architected a reusable UI abstraction layer — a wrapper over MUI and RizzUI component libraries with custom components to handle complex, evolving UI/UX requirements.

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Drive the full frontend release lifecycle: build optimization, deployment pipeline management, and early issue detection.

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Partner with the Tech Lead on cost and timeline estimations and new feature integration assessments.

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Drive experimentation with emerging technologies, particularly AI-powered systems, and guide team adoption of new approaches.

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Built a Next.js POC for an internal feature-flag management system on AWS AppConfig, evaluated as a replacement for LaunchDarkly to cut per-seat licensing costs.