Hi, I'm Kyle.

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Treeo Marketplace

Global marketplace for lumber and logs

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Overview

At Treeo Marketplace, I collaborated closely with two fellow engineers to develop and scale both web and mobile applications. I led numerous projects from inception to deployment, providing guidance through code reviews and best practices to ensure high-quality deliverables. I architected and implemented comprehensive backend services for critical business functions, including inventory management, pricing, shipments, orders, and notifications, ensuring a scalable and maintainable system architecture. Additionally, I created the iOS application using a webview approach, expanding our platform's accessibility to a broader user base.My role encompassed designing and managing cloud infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Pub/Sub, optimizing for an event-driven architecture and high availability. I enhanced frontend performance by implementing caching strategies and UI optimizations, significantly improving the user experience for clients with low-quality network connections. Through meticulous database design and efficient query implementation, I ensured data integrity and seamless integration with frontend components. My efforts in testing and documentation, including generating OpenAPI docs and maintaining comprehensive test suites with Cypress and Jest, contributed to the platform's stability and scalability. These initiatives were pivotal in achieving breakeven status and supporting the platform's ongoing growth and client satisfaction.

Tech

We leveraged a modern and robust technology stack to build scalable and high-performance web and mobile applications. Our frontend was developed using Preact for its lightweight and efficient rendering capabilities, complemented by Swift for the iOS app built via webview integration. The backend was powered by NestJS and Node.js, providing a solid foundation for building scalable and maintainable server-side applications. We utilized TypeScript across the stack to ensure type safety and enhance developer productivity.For data management, we implemented MongoDB as our primary database, enabling flexible and efficient handling of our business-critical data. Our DevOps workflow was streamlined with Docker and Kubernetes, facilitating containerization and orchestrating our microservices for seamless deployment and scalability. Google Pub/Sub and Redis were integral for managing real-time event-driven architectures and caching, respectively, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.To maintain code quality and reliability, we employed Cypress and Jest for comprehensive testing, ensuring robust and error-free deployments. Our development process was further supported by tools like OpenAPI for API design and documentation, an NX Monorepo for organized codebase management, and Git paired with CI/CD Pipelines to enable continuous integration and continuous deployment. This cohesive technology stack empowered us to deliver a resilient and user-friendly platform, driving Treeo Marketplace to achieve breakeven status and support ongoing growth.

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Summit Web Solutions

Digital agency specializing in website development and management for small businesses

Overview

Building out Summit Web Solutions is, for the most part, what I've been up to since graduating college in 2020. I started this business in 2019 from my dorm room after helping a friend build out an ecommerce website. Years later, I supported over 100 clients in just about every way imaginable, including:

Despite it being my initial passion and business venture, I decided to sell the business in August of 2023 due to the emergence of more promising opportunities.

Tech

Since each website was built with the owner in mind, I primarily used easy-to-learn CMS' like Wordpress and plugins like Elementor. However, each site featured a unique design with custom themes and plugins. Other custom solutions were built with Nextjs and Nestjs.

Portfolio

Here's a few of my former clients. Not all designs were purely mine, and most of the develoment was done hand-in-hand with the owner and/or manager. I've worked with over 100 clients, but here are a few highlights.

Zuber Lawler

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KS Mushroom Store

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Lotus Capital Partners

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Field & Cattle

A better way to buy local bulk beef

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Overview

Field & Cattle started from a simple observation: buying directly from a local farm is better in every way — fresher product, fairer prices, stronger community — but there was no good way to actually do it. I built the platform to fix that, connecting local buyers directly to farmers for beef sides and, eventually, the full range of farm products.
The platform is fully self-built on Next.js and MongoDB, deployed on Vercel, with GCP handling backend infrastructure. In six months it's grown to 50k monthly visitors and $1k MRR across three revenue streams — display ads, a B2B channel for restaurants and retailers, and direct D2C sales. The NestJS migration is already planned as the backend load scales up.
What makes the project interesting technically is how much is built entirely in-house. Rather than stitching together SaaS tools, I built most of the core infrastructure myself: a CRM purpose-built for farm operations, a multi-channel messaging system covering email, SMS, and in-platform notifications, and a cold outreach platform that passively gathers farm data at scale through automated campaigns. For marketing, I replaced Mailchimp entirely with a custom email platform powered by Amazon SES — better deliverability, full control, and a fraction of the cost. I also built a browser extension for scraping relevant farm and product data to keep the marketplace supply side well-informed.
The marketplace itself is built on Stripe Connect, laying the foundation for direct transactions between buyers and farms as the platform matures. The goal has always been a full agricultural marketplace — beef is just where it starts.

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Bulk Exchange

Headed up engineering to take an off-shored 0-1 project and make it secure, scalable, and reliable. Built my own team of five, with three engineers, a designer, and a PM.

Overview

Led a full-scale transformation of the engineering organization during a critical growth stage, rebuilding the team with high-caliber engineers from top programs including Stanford and Columbia. Directed a company-wide platform modernization initiative, rewriting core systems to eliminate years of technical debt and migrating infrastructure from Django to a scalable NestJS-based architecture using Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, GCP, and an NX monorepo.Oversaw cloud infrastructure modernization and deployment strategy, transitioning systems toward secure managed services including Cloud Run and Vercel. Introduced agentic engineering workflows and internal tooling that significantly improved developer onboarding, productivity, and codebase understanding across the organization.Worked closely with executive leadership on technical strategy, organizational communication standards, and long-term platform direction, serving as a key technical voice in both engineering and C-suite decision-making.

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Thoreau

Thoreau is an AI writing assistant empowering you to write smarter, not harder

Overview

Thoreau is a project I began building back when GPT-2 was all the rage in niche LLM communities (aka, back when it wasn't worth much, but it showed promise). I began building this SaaS back in 2020, but didn't officially launch until the beginning of 2023. It wasn't until the beginning of 2022 that I accepted my invitation to OpenAI's beta, and the software actually became useful. By then, there were market was much more saturated - leading me to sell the business right after launch. After a strong start with over 300 active users, I exited in January 2023, after anticipating market oversaturation.Like many other LLM-based applications, Thoreau was essentially a wrapper of GPT-4, only aimed at helping small businesses create mid-quality content with SEO in mind.

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Demo

Due to the fact that Thoreau is no longer in production and I no longer have rights to the codebase, instead of screenshots to demonstrate the web app, I'll use my demo series on Youtube. There are 8 videos demonstrating the software I created.

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Columbia University

Graduated in 2020 with a B.A. in computer science with a concentration on intelligent systems

Overview

I received my B.A. from Columbia University in 2020. I was a student-athlete on the football team, and founded an investment club (The Lincoln Foundation) on campus where a group of 15 students and I simulated a portfolio and debated whether or not to invest in certain companies.The most formative experience I had here was a result of the time required to play on the football team while keeping up with my academics. With over 40 hours/week dedicated to the team, and another 40+ dedicated to schooling, I was exhausted, and had little time for anything else - but I wouldn't have had it any other way. The friendships and bonds I formed with both my classmates and teammates are invaluable and lifelong, and they were forged in those long hours spent together.

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Personal Life

Work isn't everything! Here's a little more about me.

I've lived around the U.S

My favorite place is Montana, but here's the laundry list, in no particular order:

My Fiance & I are travelling (currently, not forever)

At the end of 2022 we moved in together in Charleston, SC. We've been bouncing around out west since the end of 2023. Currently, we're in Downingtown, PA, just married, and expecting our first child in July.

I've got a great group of friends

We all met in college and plan trips together throughout the year. They're all still back in NYC :/

I'm a real estate investor

I have a very low maintenance side business called Onyx Capital. We have 7 doors in our portfolio. One at a property in Montana, and another at a property in Maine.Two friends and I bought a triplex in Anaconda, Montana in March of 2022. I lived there for 8 months and fixed it up, and now I manage the property. Ask me what it's like to live in an old smelting town with 8,000 people.We just closed on our Maine property in August of 2024.

I'm Active

I'm an outdoorsman who enjoys bowhunting, fishing, hiking, working out, and everything inbetween.

What's In my ears

Here are my favorite podcasts:

Here are my favorite books:

I'm currently reading:

I love philly sports

Being born and raised an hour outside of Philly has it's perks - one of them being a diehard Eagles, Phillies, Flyers, and Sixers fan.

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Contact