About
A developer trained as a designer, working like a one-person product team
I am a front-end and full-stack developer based in Weston, Florida, working as an independent contractor through 27 Colab LLC, a two-person studio. I studied multimedia design and programming at a Broward County technical college and have been designing and building websites since 2011.
That path shows in how I work. I start from the user and the information architecture, build in code, and care about the unglamorous parts that decide whether a product holds up: accessibility, speed, search visibility, tests, hosting and security.
For four years I was the lead contributor on an insurance company's quote funnel, marketing site and React Native app. Alongside that I have been the sole developer of a senior-living wellness platform since 2019, built a Next.js and Strapi platform for a property-services company, and shipped an AI phone receptionist to production. Before all of that: 60+ small-business websites across South Florida.
I work in English and Spanish, remotely or on site in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area.
Resume
Same person, same facts, four emphases. Pick the closest to the work you have in mind.
Skills
Things I have shipped to production or used on real client work, grouped by area.
Front end
- React
- Next.js (App Router)
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript
- React Native (Expo)
- Figma specs to production components
- Accessibility (WCAG, axe-core, keyboard and focus)
WordPress
- Custom themes and plugins (PHP)
- REST API endpoints
- Gravity Forms as a data layer
- ACF and custom taxonomies
- WooCommerce
- WP-CLI and WP-Cron
- Security response and core upgrades
- Hosting: Cloudways, cPanel and WHM, DNS, SSL
Back end and data
- Node.js (Fastify)
- Strapi, Contentful, Prismic
- MySQL, Postgres, SQLite
- PDF generation
- Event consumers and webhooks
- QuickBooks Online and Salesforce integrations
- AWS (hands-on, self-study)
AI and automation
- Claude API: streaming, tool use, prompt caching
- Real-time voice: Twilio Media Streams, Deepgram, ElevenLabs
- Latency, turn-taking and barge-in engineering
- Agent tools with deterministic guardrails
- LLM evaluation harnesses
- Claude Code workflows: CLAUDE.md, skills, MCP, handover docs
Quality, performance and growth
- Playwright end-to-end tests
- GitHub Actions CI and preview environments
- Core Web Vitals and technical SEO
- GA4, Consent Mode v2, consent-management platforms
- A/B testing with Statsig
- Datadog RUM
How I work with AI
I use Claude Code every day. On AI-assisted projects I write the spec, review every change, run the tests and decide what ships, and I say “built with Claude Code” because the agent writes much of the code in those sessions. My work before 2025 is hand-written, including a CMS migration parser and a WordPress platform built from wireframes to launch, which is why I can judge generated code quickly.
What keeps it honest: a CLAUDE.md in every repository, approval gates for anything outward-facing, evaluation suites for AI features, and handover docs when a project ends. This site was built that way, and checked by automated accessibility and performance tests.
Education and community
- William T. McFatter Technical College: Multimedia Design Technology (2011) and Business Computer Programming (2012).
- Adobe Certified Associate in Photoshop and Premiere Pro (2011).
- Industry advisory committee member for Broward County public technical colleges' web and network-systems programs, 2016 to 2019.
- Languages: English and Spanish.