Principal, Nullframe Systems
Austin, since 2022. Backend and infrastructure work for scheduling, payments and logistics teams, mostly on six to twelve week scopes, with no more than two active build or advisory clients at a time.
Engineering philosophy
Pragmatic software, built to outlast the hype.
Nullframe Systems is an Austin practice built on a plain engineering belief: proven, boringly reliable architecture and clear communication beat over-engineered complexity every time.
Practice boundary
What this practice does—and what it hands off.
Backend systems, infrastructure and review work, with senior hands on the keyboard and battle-tested tools: Go, Python, TypeScript, Postgres and well-supported cloud primitives, so nobody is left maintaining an exotic framework two years after launch. Front-end design, mobile apps and open-ended staff augmentation get referred out to people who do them better.
Experience
Where the work came from.
Staff engineer, logistics platform
2018 to 2022. Owned the dispatch and routing services, and the on-call rota that came with them.
Backend engineer, payments
2014 to 2018. Card capture, refunds and reconciliation, including a long stretch on idempotency after a bad weekend.
Qualifications
What can be checked.
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BS in computer science, University of Texas at Austin, 2014.
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AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, renewed 2025.
- 03
Working day to day in Go, Python, Postgres, Terraform and Cloudflare Workers.