Experienced full-stack engineer, open to straightforward contract work or getting a new venture off the ground.

Location: Vermont, USA

Remote: Yes (open to travel)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js/Deno, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, React, Elasticsearch, Databricks/Spark, FFmpeg

Résumé/CV: https://en.masher.media/about.html

Email: hn.57@masher.media

I’ve spent about half my time in first/founding engineer roles at startups, and half working directly for clients, agencies, and institutions on a wide variety of products. Folks enjoy my enthusiasm for their ideas and my ability to meet them where they are technically, always providing that extra context that builds trust and understanding.

I’m comfortable owning concerns end-to-end, from initial scoping and architectural tradeoffs through deployment of functional prototypes and user testing. I enjoy iterating and scaling systems from there, while building teams to maintain and build upon them.

Expertise in database design, media rendering systems, engagement platforms, high-volume event ingestion, ML pipelines, and getting it all working in AWS. Top priorities are data integrity, security, and privacy.

Lean on me for:

- Technical scoping and planning for a new product or platform before committing resources

- Architectural review and data modeling to see how a system should flow and which tradeoffs matter

- Greenfield builds where you need someone to plan and ship v1 without much hand-holding

- Forward-deployed engineering, working directly with potential customers to help guide the product

Pragmatic about LLMs: effective for exploration, debugging, documentation, and tightly scoped implementation work when paired with strong engineering judgment and rigid testing.