About

I write software for background screening — the systems that carry a check from the moment an employer orders it to the moment a result comes back. Most of that work has been APIs: the integrations connecting applicant tracking systems to a screening platform, where the data is regulated, personal, and expected to be correct.

I did not start here. I studied criminal justice, planned on law school, earned a paralegal certificate, and spent seven years in title insurance, eventually working as an underwriter. Underwriting is risk assessment under regulatory constraint — reading a file closely enough to know what could go wrong, and being accountable for the call. In 2016 I enrolled at Coding Temple in Chicago and changed careers. I landed, more or less by accident, in the one corner of software where the previous decade was domain knowledge rather than a detour.

Six years of that has been C# and ASP.NET Core; the last few have been Java and Spring Boot after moving to a different part of the company, which was a genuine adjustment and a useful one. Along the way I have picked Angular back up after years away from the front end, and started closing my longest-standing gap: for most of my career a DevOps team owned deployment, so this site runs on AWS infrastructure I wrote and deploy myself.