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Different products. The same responsibility: understand the system and make it work.

SaaS, mobile, data, media, payments, communications, and operational platforms I have built, inherited, stabilized, or carried forward.

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Anonymized client · Communications + payments

Rescued the critical paths of a live communications and payments platform

Situation
A mature marketplace had broken and unpaid calls, customers stranded on hold, fragile payment state, weak failure visibility, a slow browsing path, and releases that were difficult to trust.
Responsibility
I took responsibility across both applications and the complete development lifecycle, following failures through communications, payments, security, moderation, monitoring, review, and deployment.
Verified result
I handed over a steadier, faster platform with a complete development lifecycle: reviewed changes, repeatable releases, device-fingerprinting and fraud controls, machine-learning-assisted media moderation, and monitoring that turns production failures into fixes. The principal measured database path also fell from roughly 7–8 seconds to 338–581 milliseconds.
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Calls, payments, security, moderation, monitoring, and delivery

Anonymized client · Cybersecurity SaaS

Translated a CTO’s cybersecurity vision into the product he had been trying to build

Situation
The inherited agency build contained code, but the intended assessment and risk model was still being lost between stakeholder conversations and implementation.
Responsibility
I became the CTO’s technical counterpart, learned the domain, reworked the MVP around its real data lifecycle, and stayed accountable through releases, recovery, repair, and continued delivery.
Verified result
The handover became long-term technical ownership of an operating platform designed for large, recurring assessment datasets and continued production change.
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Anonymized cybersecurity dashboard showing health, risk, remediation, and risk-debt trends over time
Health, risk, remediation, and risk-debt view

Anonymized client · Event photography commerce

Turned a raw source handover into a product the owner could safely keep developing

Situation
A live event-photography commerce platform arrived from its previous supplier as a raw ZIP rather than a trustworthy handover, test environment, or release system.
Responsibility
I converted the archive into maintained software, established a controlled delivery path, handled urgent event work, and continued development through the product’s revenue path.
Verified result
The business gained a versioned product, a repeatable route to release, an isolated place to test, a connected event-floor workflow, and a path to keep changing checkout and payments without depending on the previous supplier.
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From source archive to an owner-controlled delivery system

Public product · End-to-end ownership · Media SaaS

Built and operated a production SaaS end to end

Situation
A photo-delivery SaaS has to connect photographer workflows with controlled customer galleries while keeping storage, processing, access, billing, delivery, and support coherent.
Responsibility
I own the product decisions, application, data model, media processing, cloud storage, access controls, custom domains, subscriptions, releases, and production operation.
Verified result
SendPhoto is a live public product with its complete product-to-production path under one accountable technical owner.
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SendPhoto sign-in screen beside a photographic globe composed from delivered client images
The public SendPhoto product

Visual project archive

Selected interfaces from systems I built, inherited, or operated.

SendPhoto sign-in screen beside a photographic globe composed from delivered client images

Media SaaS

SendPhoto

Product, galleries, media processing, delivery, subscriptions, releases, and production operation.

Sanitized cybersecurity risk, remediation, and risk-debt dashboard

Data lifecycle

Security assessment portal

Assessment periods, assets, findings, remediation, reporting, workers, and release environments.

Anonymized group safety coordination mobile interface

Real-time safety

Group safety coordination

Group plans, live location, check-ins, alerts, maps, notifications, and administration.

Anonymized property intelligence mobile interface

Data product

Property intelligence

Property discovery, time-series data, maps, clustering, favorites, history, and release configuration.

Anonymized live competition judging dashboard

Deadline-bound state

Live competition judging

Mobile scoring, independent judges, synchronized results, placing calculations, and tie rules.

Anonymized professional networking product interface

Mature SaaS

Networking platform

Members, meetings, subscriptions, reports, media jobs, recovery, and automated deployment.

Anonymized venue booking product interface

Commercial workflow

Venue booking

Availability, quotes, payments, guests, suppliers, documents, migrations, tests, and releases.

Anonymized engineering project management interface

Operational system

Engineering project management

Technical records, load cases, approvals, history, attachments, notifications, and exports.

Anonymized video training membership interface

Media and entitlement

Training membership

Structured training, protected media, progress, subscriptions, processing, and release environments.

Anonymized event planning CRM interface

Team operations

Event planning CRM

Events, schedules, contacts, tasks, documents, notifications, search, and exports.

Anonymized device recovery SaaS interface

State-dependent guidance

Device recovery SaaS

Recovery plans, contacts, geography, notifications, tutorial media, accessibility, and tests.

Anonymized marketing operations CRM interface

Commercial workflow

Marketing operations CRM

Proposals, pricing, deposits, installments, documents, customer views, and cloud environments.

Anonymized show management SaaS interface

Schedule and billing

Show management

Calendars, divisions, judges, imported data, subscriptions, webhooks, email, and environments.

Anonymized healthcare staffing interface

Team operations

Healthcare staffing

Staff records, availability, shifts, documents, permissions, notifications, and search.

Anonymized sports sales CRM interface

Team operations

Sports sales CRM

Contacts, opportunities, tasks, pipeline state, documents, notifications, and exports.

Production rescue

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