Senior Software Engineer · Software Architect
For more than 20 years, I’ve worked as a hands-on engineer and architect across product development, distributed backend systems, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, and technical leadership.
About
My career spans Linux operations, web and mobile development, financial data infrastructure, cloud platforms, and modern TypeScript products. I’m most useful where systems, product decisions, and delivery constraints meet.
System boundaries, distributed services, data models, integration design, security, and pragmatic technology decisions — most recently in PRISM, a Zero-Trust gateway for MCP agent traffic, and Anna, a sovereign AI second brain.
Production APIs, financial data pipelines, Linux, AWS, Cloudflare, databases, CI/CD, fault tolerance, and operational tooling — from the Paybook financial aggregation backbone to Cloudflare Workers at the edge.
Turning ambiguous goals into shipped software through discovery, iterative planning, hands-on implementation, testing, and release — most recently the Liaison alpha and IncidentPulse.
Cross-functional alignment, architecture guidance, mentoring, developer enablement, and clear communication with technical and business teams — practiced leading initiatives at Earnest and across consulting engagements.
Selected work
Current independent work, described briefly — full career history is on the resume page.
2025–2026
A sovereign 24/7 AI second brain that remembers what your AI forgets. Anna connects once via MCP to Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and ChatGPT — one shared memory, goal pacing, and personalization layer across every model — with each user's data isolated in their own Cloudflare pod.
2026
An edge-native Zero-Trust gateway and policy broker for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Built on Cloudflare Workers and Hono, PRISM mediates between autonomous AI agents and downstream services, enforcing granular Role-Based Access Control, protocol translation (REST, GraphQL, SQL), asynchronous queue processing, and telemetry redaction.
2026
Open-source realtime incident commander and war room for microservices and SaaS. Built on Serverpod 2 (Dart) with a cross-platform Flutter client: webhook ingress from Sentry, Stripe, GitHub Actions, and AWS; a live WebSocket triage room; and a smart escalation ladder for unacknowledged criticals.
2025–2026
A developer-culture product brand — apparel and digital goods — grown out of game-jam roots. It began as a monster pet game extending a Global Game Jam entry and is evolving into products for people who write code.
2026
A human-in-the-loop product discovery workspace that keeps client intent and engineering decisions aligned. Liaison turns confirmed conversations into a living brief while preserving role boundaries: engineering notes stay private, AI-written translations require developer review, and scope changes require client approval.
Ongoing
The reusable platform behind my independent products. It standardizes project foundations, testing, automation, and delivery so I can move from an idea to a dependable release quickly without trading away reliability.
2013–2019
As Paybook's first engineer on the financial aggregation backbone, I designed and implemented the architecture, scaling model, data pipelines, infrastructure, database schemas, operational tooling, and user-facing components. The platform was operational before the team expanded and supported integrations across Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, the United States, and Europe.
Career
Most recently, I worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Earnest and Wizeline. Earlier, I spent seven years as Senior Software Architect at Paybook and more than a decade consulting across software development, infrastructure, security, and data systems.
Now
Building Anna — now in private beta — preparing PRISM for open source, and looking for remote senior engineering and architecture roles.
Contact
I’m available for senior software engineering, architecture, and technical leadership opportunities.
Email Ryan