4+ years building SaaS platforms and community tools with Ruby on Rails, EmberJS, and React. Lead maintainer of open-source Discourse plugins with 10,000+ combined installations. Shipped 15+ features for enterprise clients, optimized systems from 30+ API calls down to 1, and built email engagement pipelines with 90% open rates.
Currently at Pavilion, shipping features for US and UK enterprise clients. Working fully remote and async across time zones since 2021.
- Build and ship production features end-to-end (backend + frontend + tests + deploy)
- Maintain open-source plugins used by thousands of communities worldwide
- Review PRs from external contributors with detailed written feedback
- Mentor junior developers on code quality and best practices
- Integrate third-party APIs (OpenAI, translation services, payment systems, SSO)
Lead maintainer of plugins used by communities worldwide:
| Plugin | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 39 | Topic rating system for community feedback |
| Multilingual | 29 | Multi-language content support for global communities |
| Tickets | 22 | Full support ticket system |
| Category Lockdown | 6 | Category-level access control |
Also contributed to Custom Wizard (54 stars), Question & Answer (49 stars), and Discourse core.
| Metric | Result |
|---|---|
| Open source installations | 10,000+ combined |
| Email engagement pipeline | 90% open rate, 75% return-to-platform |
| API optimization | 30+ calls reduced to 1 (95% reliability gain) |
| Manual process automation | 80% reduction via webhooks |
| Junior devs mentored | 10+ |
