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

Live ↗

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

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 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

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