Full Stack Developer
Clerk Data LLC (Via Toptal)
Aug 2025 – Present8m
Key Achievements
- Migrated a legacy ASP1/MS SQL application to a modern NestJS/React stack, eliminating technical debt from a Windows 95-based system and establishing a scalable, cloud-native architecture on AWS.
- Reduced page load times by 98%, optimizing queries on 50+ million record tables to execute in under 500ms compared to previous 60+ second wait times through database restructuring and strategic caching.
- Architected and deployed a distributed AWS infrastructure utilizing Elastic Beanstalk with load balancing, RDS PostgreSQL, ElastiCache Valkey, and CloudFront CDN to ensure high availability and performance.
- Implemented Redis-based caching and session management, achieving sub-second response times for data-intensive operations while supporting concurrent user sessions at scale.
- Established enterprise-grade security by integrating AWS Cognito authentication with role-based access control, protecting sensitive data, and ensuring compliance with modern security standards.
- Optimized database performance for large-scale operations, engineering efficient query strategies that reduced full-database searches from indefinite loading to ~1 second execution time.
- Delivered a production-ready application with modern UI/UX using React and shadcn/ui, transforming user experience from an outdated interface to a responsive, intuitive platform with enhanced accessibility.