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Product workacross the stack.

A selection of work across products, systems, and engineering problems, from mature commerce software to newer API-driven applications.

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FULL STACKCOMMERCEHEADLESSAPISDATAAI TOOLING

Case studies

Selected product work

Each case focuses on a distinct engineering problem, the contribution I made, and how the system works.

CASE / 01
MERCHANT APPLICATIONCATALOGORDERSCUSTOMERSCHANNELSSHARED DOMAIN SERVICESASYNC

Finqu Commerce

Long-running full-stack work on the merchant-facing application of a multi-tenant ecommerce platform, across catalog, orders, customers, pricing, integrations, and background processing.

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • Vue
  • jQuery
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CASE / 02
ACCOUNTMARKETPLACECOMMERCEDISCOVERPURCHASEGRANT

Finqu Marketplace

A marketplace for discovering, purchasing, and accessing applications, built as a headless storefront on top of the commerce platform.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Storefront GraphQL
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CASE / 03
CATALOGLIQUIDXMLJSONCSVTEXTDELIVERYSCHEDULED REFRESH

Finqu Feeds

A configurable product-data syndication system that transforms catalog data into destination-specific feeds.

  • PHP
  • Liquid
  • XML
  • JSON
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CASE / 04
CONNECTED SIDEACCOUNTSESSIONAUTHCOMMERCECONNECTED APPOAUTHSCOPES

Finqu Account Portal

Central sign-in, account security, sessions, two-factor authentication, and OAuth 2.0 authorization for connected Finqu products.

  • PHP
  • Vue
  • OAuth 2.0
  • JWT
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CASE / 05
PARTNERAPPTHEMEDRAFTREVIEWPUBLISHCATALOGPAYOUTSUBMITLIST AND SELL

Finqu Partner Portal

A self-service console for partners and developers, covering onboarding, app and theme lifecycle, OAuth clients, and seller payouts.

  • PHP
  • Vue
  • OAuth 2.0
  • Stripe Connect
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CASE / 06
LIQUIDMARKUPSTYLESCRIPTRENDERED STOREFRONTRENDER

Finqu Storefront & Liquid Themes

Production ecommerce storefronts and Liquid themes, backed by years of work on the surrounding customization system.

  • Liquid
  • HTML
  • Sass/CSS
  • JavaScript
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CASE / 07
COMMERCEPARTNER TOOLINGEMBEDDED APPSSHARED TOKENS

Finqu Cool UI

A reusable component library and shared UI foundation for connected products and embedded partner applications.

  • JavaScript
  • Sass/CSS
  • Design tokens
  • UI components
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Experience across the stack

What the work has covered

The case studies go deep on a few systems. This is the broader product and engineering experience behind them.

APIs & integrations

REST, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs, versioned contracts, webhooks, partner integrations, and external platform connections.

Commerce operations

Product and catalog management, variants, inventory, pricing, orders, customers, merchant workflows, and sales channels.

Checkout & payments

Hosted checkout, order flows, payment logic, Stripe, Stripe Connect, and provider integrations.

Identity & access

Login, sessions, two-factor authentication, OAuth, PKCE, JWT, permissions, and account context across connected applications.

Data flows & background processing

Imports, exports, product feeds, asynchronous jobs, messaging, retries, and integration delivery.

Storefronts & headless commerce

Liquid themes, shopper-facing ecommerce, headless storefronts, and Storefront GraphQL consumers.

Shared product foundations

Component libraries, design tokens, reusable application patterns, and shared platform capabilities.

Delivery, observability & infrastructure

CI/CD, containers, cloud services, monitoring, error tracking, search infrastructure, and internal engineering tools.

Public websites & SEO

Company and public websites, frontend implementation, analytics, and search optimization.