Work with an engineer who has built a business.
Work directly with Theo Wallace
You work with the person designing, building, and handing over your software.
Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, with remote projects welcome. Your project starts with a written scope and ends with the code, access, and notes you need.
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. At P.S., that meant customer personalization, Shopify order tools, print-file generation, catalog processing, and scheduled reminders. For Jack Nelson, it meant a portfolio site he could update himself. Those are the experiences I bring to your project.
Where the experience came from.
- • Built card personalization interfaces and order-review flows
- • Built Python workflows for AI-assisted catalog tagging and category labeling
- • Connected Shopify orders to print-file generation and S3; built scheduled MongoDB-to-Mailchimp reminders
- • 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)
- • 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
A few things I care about.
You own everything
Written scope first
Plain language
You can keep using what we build
Find out whether your project is a fit.
Reach out and I'll let you know if I'm the right fit.