Clean design. Solid code.
I design fast frontends and build secure backends. No bloated templates, no slow page-builders—just clean, custom code that works.
Services
Websites & E-Commerce
Fast, beautiful marketing sites and online stores. Built from scratch for high conversion, search rankings, and easy updates.
Web Applications
Custom client portals, interactive web apps, and dashboards. Built to automate your manual business workflows.
Speed & Upgrades
Fixing slow, buggy, or outdated legacy systems. I clean up fragile code, optimize database speeds, and lower hosting costs.
Featured Projects
Hardware-Accelerated Bulk Image Processing
A client-side bulk image compressor using HTML5 canvas and JSZip. Zero cloud uploads, zero data leakage, and absolute privacy.
Read Case Study →Privacy First Task & Time Tracking
A local-first, zero-latency time tracker built with IndexedDB and delta-timestamping. Immune to background tab throttling and monthly fees.
Read Case Study →Zero-Leakage Developer Sandboxes
Secure, offline developer utilities for safe regex testing and hashing. Runs entirely on-device using the native Web Crypto API and browser V8.
Read Case Study →Selected Articles
Architecting a High-Throughput Telemetry Pipeline in Go
Building resilient memory rings for pipeline routing.
Distributed Rate Limiting: From Local State to Atomic Lua
In a distributed system, a rate limiter isn't just a counter—it's a critical reliability component. If it fails, your services are vulnerable to DDoS; if it's slow, you break your SLA latency targets.
Architecting a Privacy-First Portfolio at the Edge
A personal portfolio should be a reflection of an engineer's architectural values. For my own digital storefront, my core requirements were strict: zero database maintenance, sub-100ms global load times, zero privacy-violating trackers, and absolute compliance with commercial intellectual property licenses.
Bypassing UI Virtualization: Cross-Platform Windows 11 Automation
Building resilient memory rings for pipeline routing.
Architecting a Polyglot Lead Attribution Engine: Node.js vs Spring Boot
As systems scale, language syntax becomes secondary to system architecture. To evaluate the current state of modern backend ecosystems, I built the exact same microservice—a Marketing Attribution and Lead Scoring API—in both Node.js (Fastify + Prisma 7) and Java 26 (Spring Boot 4 + Hibernate).
Hardening Email Infrastructure: A Technical Guide to MTA-STS and BIMI
In modern systems engineering, domain authority extends far beyond the web server. While most developers stop at configuring basic SPF and DKIM records, a truly resilient infrastructure requires hardening the transport and identity layers of email communication.
Executive Endorsements
"...he has helped to raise our entire team to another level and not just those to which he directly interacts."
Ben and I have worked together for more than 2 years. During this time Ben has proven himself to be an invaluable asset. With Ben's contributions in the areas of team leadership, development, time management, documentation and communication, he has helped to raise our entire team to another level and not just those to which he directly interacts. Ben prides himself on thoroughness and has a high level of attention to detail. Ben maintains a strong work ethic and consistently delivers quality work. Ben is selfless in his day-to-day activities and is always willing to stop and help others as needed. Without Ben's contributions, our team's deliverables would not be at their current quality levels. My view is that Ben is the type of person one would want on their team. His skills, persistence and personality allow him to both be successful and bring success to any team.
"Ben encourages innovation and out-of-the-box thinking..."
I worked directly with Ben for several months as I transitioned from the Dell Data Protection Server Virtual Edition product to a new project, with Ben assuming a team lead role on Server VE. Not only is Ben one of the smartest guys I've worked with at Dell, has a great sense humor, is highly committed to his work, and was a pleasure for me to work with. As mentioned by a few of his other reviewers, Ben stays on top of the latest technology, regardless of whether or not he is currently working with it on the job. His introduction of software tools such as docker, ansible, and gradle led to vast improvements for dev ops, particularly in the packaging automation of the Server VE product. In addition to his technical expertise, Ben encourages innovation and out-of-the-box thinking from by his team. For example, he scheduled regular ideation sessions, then documented and prioritized the results to drive continuous improvement both in development processes as well as implementation of product features. Based on my experience working with Ben, he is a great developer and technologist, and is highly effective both as an individual contributor as well as a technical leader.
"Ben gets it and can build it."
Very intelligent and extremely capable software engineer and technical lead with deep expertise in analytics, DevOps and all aspects of software development. Ben takes pride in his work and aggressively up-levels his skills and stays on top of emerging technology. Kubernetes, Docker, Big Data pipelines, lambda architectures, SaaS, microservices, messaging, continuous integration, etc. - Ben gets it and can build it. Whenever I needed another set of eyes on an analytics or enterprise architecture - Ben was my guy - providing expert feedback that always led to an improved product. Highly recommended and I look forward to working with Ben in the future.
"He always went above and beyond what was asked of him..."
I had the honor of working together with Ben as my mentor during an early stage of my career. From the very beginning, Ben demonstrated extreme passion and dedication not only for his work but for the people that he worked with. He always went above and beyond what was asked of him and he very often went out of his way to help others. As a mentor, Ben showed a great ability to take complex ideas and break them down into simpler pieces to gradually build up understanding of challenging concepts. It was always a treat being able to work together on projects as I got to learn and experience first-hand the makings of effective application development. Ben possesses a very deep understanding of various software engineering concepts and practices ranging from design patterns and system architectures to best-practice methodologies. He has the ability to approach a problem in the context of what could be rather than being limited to what is already present and he is able to successfully execute on his designs to create something better than what he started out with. His problem-solving skills, his good-natured personality, and his ability to go that extra mile would make him an excellent addition to any Agile software engineering team looking for someone that can get things done the right way. It was a pleasure working with Ben and I hope to get the opportunity to do so again.