Eagle Metal Products
Dallas, TX · RemoteSoftware Technical Lead
2025–present- Shape technical direction for the internal Laravel/Postgres ERP that runs plant operations, translating business priorities into architecture decisions and a delivery roadmap.
- Lead technical delivery through design and code reviews, implementation guidance, and mentorship; review and merge the majority of the team's changes.
- Serve as the primary owner of release readiness and production deployments for the ERP.
- Partner with stakeholders to uncover root causes, translate operational needs into maintainable software, and automate repetitive workflows.
Senior Software Engineer
2025- Led initiatives across the production ERP to improve runtime performance, data correctness, and code reuse.
- Reduced Laravel boot time from ~600ms to ~30ms, removed ~200ms from request runtime, and doubled CI test throughput.
- Converted the codebase to CarbonImmutable and Postgres timestamptz (microsecond precision), eliminating a class of mutation and timezone bugs.
- Developed open-source and internal Laravel packages that standardized shared behavior and reduced duplicate implementation across applications.
Software Engineer
2022–2025- Delivered ERP capabilities supporting plant production, maintenance, inventory, shipping, and customer support.
- Introduced PHPStan and brought a 15–20-year-old codebase to level 5 compliance, identifying type errors before production.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines that reduced runtime by ~75% through parallel DAG stages and test execution; administered Docker development environments and on-prem production servers.