Backend engineer with a focus on .NET APIs, systems design, and AI-enhanced developer workflows. I build tools for developers — not demo apps — and I think hard about what happens after the happy path.

After three years away caring for a family member, I'm back — sharper on fundamentals, genuinely fluent in AI tooling, and building in public at dev.to/amodelandme.

The name? It's me and the model — pair-programming at the intersection of craft and AI.

Azure-native. .NET-first. AI-assisted feature flag management.

🔗 Feature Flag Service Repository

A developer tooling project built to serve mid-market engineering teams running .NET on Azure — the teams that find LaunchDarkly expensive and Unleash under-supported.

Stack        .NET 8  ·  ASP.NET Core  ·  Azure (Key Vault · App Insights · Container Apps)
AI Layer     Azure OpenAI — natural language flag health analysis · stale flag detection
SDK          Production .NET SDK ships alongside the service
Model        Open core · MIT licensed · self-hostable

What makes it different:

• Azure-native from Phase 1 — not bolted on later
• AI-assisted flag management: ask "which of my flags need attention?" and get a real answer
• ASP.NET Core teams are productive in under 15 minutes

The demo that validates it: Clone the repo → docker compose up → working flag service with .NET SDK and AI analysis. Under 15 minutes, no account required.

Design-first. .NET-native. AI-assisted system architecture.

🔗 Specwright Repository

A development workflow and tooling kit for engineers who want to move beyond tickets and toward spec-driven system design.

Built for backend teams working in .NET environments, Specwright introduces a structured approach to designing, implementing, and evolving systems using living documents and AI-assisted roles.

CompuGroup Medical · Software Developer — Backend/DevOps (2022–2023)

• Built and maintained high-throughput .NET and Node.js APIs for laboratory management products
• EF Core + schema optimization drove significant query time reductions across PostgreSQL and SQL Server
• Redesigned CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions + Docker + AWS — dramatically faster, more reliable deployments
• Implemented Redis caching strategies to reduce primary database load

Ecosystem · Software Engineer (2020–2021)

• Architected RESTful APIs for iOS and Electron clients, improving data accessibility at scale
• Performance investigations and targeted refactoring cut load times significantly
• Automated testing + deployment via GitHub Actions and Selenium

+ Deepening: API design patterns · .NET internals · Systems architecture
+ Building:  Developer tools (not CRUD demos)
+ Learning:  AI-augmented workflows · Prompt engineering with Claude
+ Writing:   amodelandme.dev — building in public, thinking out loud

• [active] eLearnSecurity Certified Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT)
• [in progress] Salesforce Administrator
• [in progress] Salesforce Platform Developer I

LinkedIn →  linkedin.com/in/amodelandme
Email    →  contact@amodelandme.dev

// thinking carefully · building deliberately · shipping honestly