About
A software engineer who still builds on the side.
Portrait, coming soon
I'm Theo Wallace, a software engineer and independent consultant. I'm a recent Virginia Tech computer science grad, and I take on projects like this one on the side, nights and weekends.
I got here through my own projects. It started with Quikmint, a Stripe-to-crypto checkout I built in high school, and it kept going through P.S., the startup that taught me how to operate, and still ship, when nothing about the situation was certain. Now I build and maintain software for small and growing businesses: sites, dashboards, analytics setups, and the integrations that connect the tools you already pay for.
Web DevelopmentProject ManagementGoogle AnalyticsDashboardsContent Management Systems (CMS)Google Tag ManagerDebuggingTroubleshootingGenerative AIUser Experience (UX)Cloud Applications
Based in
Raleigh, NC
Open to remote work
Building since
2021
Quikmint onward
School
VT '26
B.S. Computer Science
Early career
Where the experience came from.
Jan 2025 – Nov 2025
Founder & CTO · P.S. (bootstrapped B2C startup)
Palo Alto, CA
- • Designed customer-facing AI personalization experiences
- • Built AI-in-the-loop workflows for tagging, labeling, product generation
- • Implemented Shopify and fulfillment pipelines end-to-end
Generative AIAgentsTerraformNext.jsGraphQLAWS
Jun – Aug 2025
Software Engineering Intern · LPL Financial
Fort Mill, SC
- • Broke down on-prem monoliths into microservices with AWS Lambda and Apache Kafka
- • Owned Terraform-based provisioning and configuration
- • Reduced core service outages (~54 engineer-hours saved yearly)
C#/.NETTerraformAWSKafkaSQLSDLC
May – Aug 2024
Software Engineering Intern · Marieke Consulting, Inc
Arlington, VA
- • Shipped a Swift iOS app with a team of technical interns
- • Designed and maintained a Postgres database on AWS
- • CI/CD with GitHub Actions to ECS; REST API with Spring Boot
SwiftSQLAWSECSSpringGitHub Actions
How I work
A few things I care about.
01
You own everything
Code, hosting, analytics and CMS accounts are in your name from the first day, not mine.
02
Written scope first
A fixed price and a date before work starts. If scope changes, that is a new sentence in the document, not a surprise invoice.
03
Plain language
No stack opinions you did not ask for. I will tell you what it does and what it costs to keep running.
04
Handover is the deliverable
A build nobody on your team can edit is not finished.