Lead case study
Apex Waves Legacy Systems Modernization
Modernized the e-commerce and operations systems behind inventory, quotes, RMA intake, fulfillment, procurement, checkout, diagnostics, and public engineering tools for an instrumentation reseller.
PHPJavaScriptAWS EC2SQLInternal tooling
Modernized the systems that connected sales, inventory, service, and fulfillment.
- Reworked backend logic across inventory, quote, RMA, and fulfillment workflows.
- Improved checkout, procurement, diagnostic, testing, and data-visibility tools around daily business operations.
- During a self-initiated evening investigation, traced unusually high AWS usage to idle servers and compute-heavy experimental eBay scraping workloads, identifying a path from roughly $12,000 to $2,500 in monthly spend.
Role and context
Web DeveloperRaleigh, NC. Legacy electronic test and instrumentation hardware workflows, November 2025 to May 2026.
A useful investigation beyond the core brief
The cloud-cost result was not the center of the role. In one self-directed evening, I noticed that AWS spending was abnormally high, inspected logs and resource usage, identified servers with little or no activity, and isolated compute-heavy experimental scraping workloads used to track replacement inventory on eBay. That evidence made it possible to separate necessary infrastructure from avoidable spend.