Konrad Wright

Summary

Experience

1. Founder & Independent Software Engineer · Self-directed

   Feb 2025 – Present · Paso Robles, CA

   Independent engineering across owned products, contract work, and self-funded experiments.

   • Built bighammergarage.com from scratch for a YouTube studio's merch store — every tool the client needs and none they don't, roughly two dozen shirt-and-hat sales to date, hosted for $12/year with no Shopify subscription to manage.
   • Shipped GrowGo's working prototype — a farmers-market marketplace on Flutter and Cloudflare Workers + D1 — after pitching it for VC funding in 2025.
   • Took Widda (widda.club), a monetization tool for YouTubers, through Chrome Web Store submission with a small launch team.
   • Built a Discord community and a custom bot using game-design principles — group accountability with a "casino points" carrot-and-stick loop.

   Technologies: Cloudflare Pages, TypeScript, Laravel, Astro, Discord API

2. DevOps Engineer · UNCOMN LLC

   Jan 2020 – Nov 2024 · Remote

   Five years building and securing AWS-hosted systems — largely on AWS GovCloud — for federal government and enterprise clients. Owned Fortify/SAST security remediation and CI/CD across successive production contracts. Left when the contract concluded — UNCOMN had no other remote seats open, and relocating to the St. Louis office wasn't in the cards.

   • Resolved 1,000+ Fortify-flagged (SAST) security vulnerabilities, owning security remediation across five years of federal contracts — on CPA, ran bi-weekly Fortify scans and briefed findings through a legacy-modernization effort.
   • Built GitOps CI/CD on GitLab + ArgoCD on AWS GovCloud, retiring the prior Jenkins-only pipeline — recovered roughly one developer-day per two-week sprint and cut pipeline-environment issues in half.
   • Scripted and deployed the AWS Lambda + API Gateway layer behind 50+ automated jobs — the team pattern for Java/JavaScript services on Docker/Kubernetes, supporting systems used across US military bases, including every US installation in South Korea.
   • Ramped from junior hire to owning contract security work within six months, closing sprint work at roughly 6x peer rate (by Jira task points) on ICODES — a 30–40-developer ship and aircraft load-planning platform.
   • Performed code and security reviews, coordinated agile delivery with external client stakeholders, and completed STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide) compliance training.

   Technologies: AWS GovCloud, Kubernetes, Docker, GitLab, ArgoCD, Fortify, Java, Python

3. Software Engineer · Draftboard

   Mar 2018 – Sep 2019 · Remote

   Full-stack engineer on an iOS sports-drafting app. Took a half-finished product across the finish line; the company was acquired by DraftKings shortly after.

   • Drove a stalled iOS product to launch readiness; the company was acquired by DraftKings in 2019.
   • Mentored junior developers and ran user-feedback iterations into the dev cycle.

   Technologies: Swift, iOS, JavaScript

4. Software Engineer · Cumulus Data Storage Solutions

   Nov 2015 – Jan 2018 · Remote

   Database and data-visualization engineer for retail clients, primarily on BevMo's point-of-sale systems.

   • Charted point-of-sale data BevMo hadn't been able to visualize; the holiday stocking decisions it guided saved the client a few million dollars in one season.
   • Designed user-friendly visualizations of complex POS data to support decision-making.
   • Transitioned to consultancy at the end of the contract to support long-term client relationships.

   Technologies: SQL, JavaScript, Data Visualization

5. Software Engineer · Neurotopia (SenseLabs LLC)

   Jun 2010 – Nov 2015 · San Luis Obispo, CA

   First professional role at an EEG neurotech startup. Owned the Ruby backend for the Neuro Headgear product, plus iPad games in Unity/Swift, plus the company website.

   • Developed and maintained the Ruby backend powering EEG Neuro Headgear — five-year ownership.
   • Built interactive iPad games in Unity and Swift for user engagement and EEG training.
   • Delivered talks at San Francisco conferences as a young engineer.
   • Mentored interns through their first technical challenges in the role.

   Technologies: Ruby, Unity, Swift, JavaScript

Education

• General College Coursework · Cuesta College

  San Luis Obispo, CA

• High School Diploma

Certifications

• CompTIA Security+ · CompTIA (Jul 2023 – Jul 2026 · lapsed — prepared to recertify on hire)

  Threats & Vulnerabilities · Cryptography · Identity & Access Management · Risk Management · Incident Response

Skills