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Senior Full Stack Developer / Technical Lead / Washington DC
I take on the systems that have to work at scale, under constraint, with no room to fail. Fifteen years of it, mostly on federal programs, and the teams that shipped it.
What I do
The work I want is the work with no documented answer. Scale that breaks the standard approach, constraints that rule out the textbook fix, deadlines that do not move. I own the architecture, I write production code, and I lead the team doing the same. I keep client specifics off a public page and I am glad to go deep in conversation.
Every system has a point where the obvious approach stops paying. Add capacity and it buckles somewhere else. Patch the symptom and it returns under a different name.
I look for the structural answer instead of the workaround, so the system meets demand as it rises rather than falling behind it and catching up later. That is the difference between a platform that grows and one that gets rewritten.
Demand rises, capacity follows it in real time. Nothing waits in line.
AI delivery
A trained model is the easy part. The hard part is everything around it: getting data in, moving it through, handling the failures nobody planned for, and turning a prediction into something a person can act on with confidence.
Scale
Most systems scale on whatever is easiest to measure rather than on what actually predicts strain. Finding the signal that sees pressure coming, and building the response around it, turns capacity from an incident into a non-event.
Platform
Simulators, end-to-end test harnesses, shared libraries, and dashboards that show what is really happening. The work that turns a day of hunting into a few minutes, built once and reused everywhere after.
Full stack
I work the whole depth of the system, from what the user touches down to what it runs on. Modernization too: carrying legacy platforms forward without stopping the business that depends on them.
Leadership
Setting technical direction, reviewing work, and making the call when there are three defensible options and no obvious winner. I brief leadership and demo to customers myself rather than handing it off.
Federal
Cleared environments, compliance gates, security reviews, and release windows that do not move. Fifteen years of shipping inside them without treating any of it as an excuse for slow work.
Capability
Languages
Frontend
Data & messaging
Cloud & delivery
AI
Observability
Track record
2025 now
Leading development teams and owning architecture for AI-assisted platforms in cleared environments. Details in conversation.
2021
Owned frontend and backend across a distributed service estate, and built the shared libraries and automated delivery path the rest of the program shipped through.
2018
Migrated AngularJS to Angular 2+, moved authentication to SAML 2.0 with SSO, and shipped access-request workflows across partner agencies. Production engineer for the release path.
2016
Modernized the Graduate Research Fellowships Program application from JSP to Java services on GlassFish, validated to Section 508.
2014
Built MyBatis mappers for the National Fire Incident Reporting System. Carried eCAPS from Struts to Struts2, OC4J to WebLogic 12, and rewrote its authentication layer for SSO.
2011
Network performance analysis, XML parsers and data adapters, SharePoint and Office 365 integrations.
The company
A Virginia S-Corp I have run since 2018, delivering full stack development to federal agencies on corp-to-corp and subcontract vehicles. Continuously engaged for eight years. Active Public Trust clearance on file.
equinoxconsultinginc.comContact
Lead and senior roles on federal programs, corp-to-corp preferred. Email me and I will send a résumé and walk through the work in detail.