Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Brent Edds

16+ years building scalable Laravel applications. I run an AI-native development workflow — I architect, Claude builds, I review everything before it ships. Based in Louisville, KY.

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Skills

Languages & Frameworks

PHP 8.4+ Laravel 12 Angular TypeScript Livewire Alpine.js TailwindCSS JavaScript Python C#

Laravel Expertise

Eloquent ORM Queues & Jobs Horizon Sanctum/Fortify Service/Repository Patterns Event Broadcasting REST API Design

AI & Agentic Tooling

Claude (Anthropic) Cursor AI Claude Code Prompt Engineering LLM Integration AI-native workflow

Data & Quality

PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Docker CI/CD Pest PHP TDD SOLID Principles

Work History

Lead Full-Stack Web Developer

Vivid Impact — Louisville, KY

April 2024 – Present
  • Adopted AI-native workflow using Claude and Cursor AI — feature delivery at accelerated pace without sacrificing code quality or test coverage.
  • Leading ground-up Laravel 12 rewrite of core promotions/distribution platform — PostgreSQL, TALL stack, RBAC, background jobs, streaming exports, 167+ passing Pest tests.
  • Established ADR documentation practices and searchable embeddings as grounding context for AI-assisted architecture decisions.
  • Mentor developers through code reviews, architectural discussions, and pair programming.

Senior Specialist Application Engineer

Waystar — Louisville, KY

Aug 2022 – Jan 2024
  • Engineered scalable C# microservices supporting high-volume healthcare data pipelines.
  • Built deployment tooling to automate integration of Python-based AI/ML models into production — including model lifecycle management and monitoring.
  • Collaborated with data science and DevOps teams to improve model reliability and observability.

Senior Full-Stack Web Developer

Avante Health Solutions — Louisville, KY

May 2014 – Aug 2022
  • Built and maintained avantehs.com and all subsidiaries — full-stack ownership across front-end, back-end, database, security, and deployments.
  • Developed custom e-commerce and CMS applications in Laravel; managed MySQL databases at scale.
  • Built incoming and outgoing RESTful API integrations with external platforms.

Projects

All recent personal work is AI-native, spanning multiple domains.

ReadyTicket

ReadyTicket

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Laravel 12 SaaS that converts unstructured requirements into developer-ready tickets using the Claude API. Live in production with Stripe billing and full ticket history.

Laravel 12 Livewire Claude API Stripe PostgreSQL

Celestial Tiles

Play ↗

Real-time multiplayer tile game inspired by Palia's Hotpot minigame. Cosmic theme, WebSocket-powered, playable with friends or AI opponents. No account needed.

Laravel Reverb WebSockets Alpine.js SVG art Real-time
ML Arena

ML Arena

Unity tactical shooter where 3v3 AI teams learn emergent combat behavior via self-play PPO. Nobody programs the tactics — they emerge from reward signals alone.

Unity ML-Agents PyTorch Python Self-play PPO
Roblox

Roblox Game Development

Building commercial Roblox games using AI-assisted Luau scripting and a hybrid world-building workflow. Current project: Steal a Shape — a multiplayer theft and passive income game.

Luau Roblox Studio AI-assisted Game Design
dead-drop

dead-drop

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A browser-based steganography tool that hides secret messages and images inside ordinary PNG files using LSB pixel manipulation. Supports AES-256 encryption, multi-channel encoding, spatial image-in-image, and a live channel visualizer. Zero backend — runs entirely in the browser.

Steganography Vanilla JS Canvas API Web Crypto GitHub Pages
Documentation system

How I Work

I don't use AI as a shortcut. I write the feature specs and ADRs, define the domain model, and review every line before it ships. Claude handles implementation. The result is production-quality code at a pace no traditional workflow can match.

Claude Cursor AI ADRs Spec-driven TDD

Contact

Open to the right opportunities. Feel free to reach out.