Operations Team Lead · Aloe Software Group · Victoria, Texas
Seventeen years building the systems that move student records between school districts and the states that audit them — and now the AI agents that read them.
Every point below is a student record — elevation is the volume moved
What I build
Building an agent that understands the education data standards our clients actually run on — Ed-Fi, TEA TSDS, College Board, Accuplacer — and answers our users' questions directly from their own data. I am training it now, and teaching it to educate itself on how the Texas and California education systems work.
Running an NVIDIA Spark box in the office as on-prem inference for a two-tier agent system: Claude orchestrates the migration plan, and a local Qwen model does the heavy code refactoring. The goal is to finally retire the legacy codebase and run entirely on our modern framework.
Architected the real-time synchronization engine for the Texas Education Agency API, then extended the same fault-tolerant ingestion architecture to California's Aeries SIS. Over 1.1 billion rows moved at full state reporting compliance, with no data latency.
Our product runs on PHP and Laravel, and still does. My work has been building its React and TypeScript surface and the Node scripting around it — and I am one of two developers on the team who can write in those languages without leaning on AI to do it.
Seventeen years, one employer
Associate of Science at Victoria College, then a B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Houston–Victoria.
Came on as a full-stack engineer on enterprise education software. Still here — not out of inertia, but ownership. When you stay, you live with every architectural decision you make.
Designed and shipped the real-time synchronization engine for the Texas Education Agency API: fault-tolerant pipelines that keep district data and state reporting in step, with zero data latency and full compliance.
Replaced hand-configured local setups with Docker across the whole development lifecycle, so every developer's environment matched production exactly. Configuration drift stopped being a class of bug, onboarding went from days to an afternoon, and deployment regressions dropped.
Built the React and TypeScript surface of a platform that runs on PHP and Laravel, along with the Node scripting around it — one of two developers on the team who can work in those languages without relying on AI.
Built the district-level data pull for California's Aeries SIS API, proving the Texas ingestion architecture generalized to a second state and its reporting rules.
Operations Team Lead. Training an agent on the education data standards our clients use so it can answer their questions directly, and running an on-prem NVIDIA Spark box where Claude orchestrates and a local Qwen model refactors us off the legacy codebase for good.
Toolbox
AI & agents
Education data standards
Core architecture
Infrastructure & DevOps
Data & analytics
Emerging tech & R&D
Education
Certifications