About Me

I'm a Senior Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience, currently working remotely from Ontario, Canada. I work on a small team of brilliant developers for a company called QuoteVelocity. We provide real-time web and live transfer prospects. We generate qualified leads and calls of consumers seeking assistance in most financial, automotive, and healthcare verticals. The companies experience spans over a decade in delivering the right customers to the right clients.

When I’m not working, you’ll usually find me spending time with my wife, Elyse, and our two dogs, Bear and Teddy. When the weather cooperates, I’m out riding my Triumph Street Triple RS 765—and lately that’s become even better since Elyse got her license and we’ve been enjoying rides together.

Fitness has also become an important part of my routine. I spend a good chunk of my mornings in the gym lifting weights and working on overall strength, balance, and long-term health. I’ve also been on a running journey—starting from scratch and gradually building consistency, endurance, and respect for my heart rate (humbling, but effective).

These days I focus on maintaining a healthy, sustainable lifestyle rather than chasing extremes. Staying active helps me show up better at work, clear my head, and enjoy the things I care about outside of a screen.

I also love tinkering in the garage on woodworking projects, anywhere from small pieces like cutting boards and signs to full-on furniture builds—tables, desks, and the occasional “this started simple” project (including the desk my keyboard is sitting on right now).

My Current Stack

For work, I use PHP and Laravel, Vue.js, and Nova 4. For personal projects, you’ll find me using the TALL stack: Tailwind CSS, Alpine JS, Laravel, and Livewire. It’s fast, scalable, and allows for rapid development and prototyping of ideas; and with Laravel recently announcing first-party support for Livewire, it's not going away anytime soon! If I need to script something, it’s either Powershell or Bash, depending on which OS I am using. I'm also familiar with Python, I've recently been using it to help fine-tune OpenAI models.

I’ve deployed apps to on-prem servers, Azure app services, AWS EC2 and Lambda functions (Laravel Vapor), Docker, and for rapid development I use services like surge.sh and Vercel to get something up fast and easy.

For the most part I try to at least stay in touch with the current trends, so I will often dabble in new tech or frameworks just to get a sense for what’s out there (like this site I made with Next.js). Well written docs make it so easy to jump into something new and get up-to-speed quickly (I’m looking at you Laravel…).

I’ve started looking into open source projects I can contribute to in my spare time, as well I have a couple ideas floating around that I think would make for potential packages that I'd like to develop. I’ve also committed myself to start blogging!