Architected and built a data-intensive web application that ingests and processes real-time market data from multiple APIs. Integrated statistical models for trend analysis and predictive signal generation, and engineered a high-frequency interface that renders continuous updates without performance degradation. Custom API proxies and caching layers hold latency down through continuous market-hours load; Stripe powers subscription billing and the customer-facing dashboards were built end to end.
Ongoing development, maintenance, and technical direction.
Senior full-stack developer and technical consultant. Twenty years building, scaling, and stabilizing web platforms, applications, and legacy systems, shaped by constant exposure to different codebases, teams, and workflows. Comfortable across eras, from PHP-era stacks to modern TypeScript, React, and AI-integrated tooling.
Founded Vessio in 2006 (a full-stack web development and website-management company), grew it for nineteen years and exited via acquisition in 2024.
A premium TradingView indicator that reads market context in real time, weighing order flow, momentum, price structure, market regime, and multi-timeframe alignment across seven confirmation criteria before an entry label prints. A five-leg confluence engine scores long and short cases 0–100 each bar, a mid-candle signal-lock meter latches on confirmation, and a health-score engine runs fourteen penalty checks. Shipped as an invite-only Pine Script with 118 parameters and thirteen native alerts, backed by a marketing UI and subscription flow.
A Flask-based automation system connecting TradingView signals to Interactive Brokers for live order execution. Secure REST endpoints handle signal intake, manual overrides, and position tracking; dynamic allocation logic, drawdown protection, and tick-compliant limit routing govern execution. Polygon API enriches live pricing, and a session-aware dashboard provides manual signal control, PnL logging, and kill-switch safeguards.
A multi-vendor WordPress platform spanning 140+ vendors with article syndication and direct integration of more than 20,000 individual products for purchase through retailers such as Amazon and TackleDirect. Product endpoints refresh continuously through the OpenAI API and advanced WordPress capabilities, dynamically adapting to each user's preferences.
WooCommerce build for a functional-fitness brand: storefront, course and program merchandising, testimonial systems, and promotional tooling on a bold, high-energy theme.
Full redesign and rebuild of the marketing website for a B2B IT-software company, providing access control and automation for Windows server environments. Discovery, information architecture, and a performance-oriented front-end built around exactly what the product needed to communicate.
A resource and store for portable web-form templates and PHP form scripts: catalog, downloads, tutorials, and a form-builder tool, with Stripe and PayPal payment flows.
Marketing and lead-capture website for an agricultural lending company: inquiry forms, structured loan-product sections, and a warm land-and-livestock identity aimed squarely at rural borrowers.
Built the platform's real-time core: signal generation, momentum feed, market-maker inference, and multi-timeframe indicator logic, choosing each piece of the stack for what live market data actually demanded. Engineered custom API proxies and caching layers to hold latency down through continuous market-hours load, integrated Stripe for subscription billing, and built the customer-facing dashboards and share systems end to end.
Designed and built a premium TradingView indicator that reads market context in real time, weighing order flow, momentum, price structure, market regime, and multi-timeframe alignment before a single entry label prints. Engineered a five-leg confluence scoring engine that rates long and short cases 0–100 on every bar, a mid-candle signal-lock meter that latches the moment evidence confirms rather than waiting for the close, and a health-score engine with fourteen independent penalty checks. Shipped as an invite-only Pine Script with 118 tunable parameters across twelve input groups and thirteen native alert conditions for automation.
Platform stabilization, architecture, and technical direction for organizations that need senior oversight and high reliability. Modernize codebases, resolve deeply rooted systemic issues, and build the automation that keeps distributed, Google Workspace-based teams moving. Integrate OpenAI and Anthropic LLM APIs into client platforms: model selection, prompt and context architecture, and production rollout.
Led custom development and integrations across the network, adapting legacy and modern interfaces and backend systems as the platform required. Stabilized the CMS across 11 newsrooms in multiple states and modernized core components without interrupting daily publishing; raised Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores through targeted refactors. Served as the escalation point for hard production issues and fed into long-term platform-redesign planning.
Delivered and maintained a wide range of custom websites, applications, CMS platforms, and large-scale builds, including advanced WordPress and custom work. Directed all technical decisions, engineering standards, and team mentorship, and built the internal tooling that kept workflows simple as the company grew. Held a 90% client-retention rate across nineteen years; exited via acquisition in 2024.
Currently taking on select full-stack development, ongoing website maintenance, legacy modernization, and trading-system engagements. Send the stack and the timeline, and a short technical assessment comes back before anything is committed.
mike@servstage.com- A platform requiring senior engineering below the threshold of a full-time hire
- A codebase whose original developers are no longer available
- An existing vendor relationship that has stopped being responsive
- A build that stalled short of completion