senior full stack engineer · ai-accelerated

Jesse
Stanger

Eight years of full-stack engineering on complex systems. Startup to enterprise scale. Obsessive attention to detail, uncompromising quality.

currently

01
Role

Senior Full Stack Engineer @ Versent

02
Focus

AI-accelerated engineering — custom Claude agents, MCP servers, and codebase-specific tooling that multiplies team throughput.

03
Building

This site, tools that make my workflow faster, dialing in my coffee ☕

selected work

Projects

2025-present

CBA Mandate Management Platform

Performed lead-level delivery on the enterprise mandate management platform at Commonwealth Bank. Architected migration from legacy to new systems while preserving capabilities. Became subject matter expert in Temporal workflow orchestration for complex async processes. Pioneered AI-accelerated engineering practices with custom Claude agents and MCP configurations, multiplying team throughput. Owned end-to-end epic delivery of multiple mandate lifecycle events.

TypeScriptNode.jsExpressAWSDockerPostgreSQLCI/CDTemporalAI-Accelerated DevelopmentEnterpriseLeadership
2025-present

Agentic AI Platform — Vera & PixieOps

Engineer on Versent's internal agentic AI platform, building AWS-native AI agents and Slack-integrated tools alongside two junior engineers. Stack includes AWS Bedrock and AWS Strands for agent orchestration. Implemented observability layer for AI/ML systems: OpenTelemetry instrumentation, Jaeger for distributed tracing, and Arize Phoenix for ML model monitoring and evaluation.

AWS BedrockAWS StrandsAWSNode.jsTypeScriptSlackOpenTelemetryJaegerArize PhoenixAgentic AI
2024-2025

Klir Skin AI Platform

Lead technical consultant architecting complete NestJS microservices platform for skincare AI startup. Designed AWS infrastructure (ECS, RDS, S3) with Sceptre/CloudFormation handling 100k concurrent users. Implemented Playwright-based data scraping service with BrightData CDP integration. Established CI/CD via GitHub Actions with comprehensive documentation and knowledge transfer.

NestJSTypeScriptNode.jsAWSPostgreSQLDockerPlaywrightCI/CDInfrastructure as CodeMonorepo
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toolkit

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • React.js / Node.js
  • Angular
  • GraphQL / Apollo
  • NestJS / Express

Infrastructure & DevOps

  • Docker / Kubernetes
  • AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Sceptre)
  • CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
  • Observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)
  • OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

Specialties

  • AI-Accelerated Development (Claude, custom agents, MCP servers)
  • Monorepo Architecture
  • Microfrontends (single-spa)
  • Design Systems & Component Libraries
  • 3D Rendering & Performance (Three.js, WebGL)
  • Temporal Workflow Orchestration

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writing

Recent Posts

Parallel Development with Git Worktrees and Claude Code

Stop context-switching between tickets. Git worktrees give each task its own isolated workspace — and Claude Code skills automate the whole setup from a single prompt.

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