Devlin Vining

AI-Native Senior Software Architect

One-person engineering team. AI-native. Comfortable in any layer of the stack.

AI-native senior software architect with 15+ years across full-stack web, mobile, and DevOps. Operating as a one-person engineering team with Claude Code as a daily collaborator, I ship at roughly 100x solo-human pace — currently building and operating, in parallel, a self-hosted K3s cluster with full GitOps and observability stack, a multi-tenant agentic chat platform, a real-time persistent Blazor MMO, a fleet of Model Context Protocol servers, and a product intelligence platform on top of the CJ Dropshipping API. Equally comfortable at the application, container, kernel, or database layer.

Experience

New Life Recovery Centers · Chemical Dependency Technician

San Jose, CA

A hands-on detour into the human side of recovery — informing the design of Residential, a Blazor MMO tycoon set in the recovery industry.

  • Provide direct support to clients in residential treatment.
  • Document interactions and observations against compliance requirements.

Tether Studios · Software Engineer

Henderson, NV (Remote)

  • Architected and maintained a cross-platform build script in Apache Groovy on Jenkins, automating the delivery pipeline for 40+ titles to Apple App Store, Google Play, and Samsung Galaxy Store.
  • Built and deployed the company's web presence (tetherstudios.com) on October CMS and PHP, owning the full lifecycle from server configuration to frontend.
  • Secured remote operations by deploying and managing VPN solutions for Amazon Web Services across multiple availability zones.
  • Integrated performance-based marketing SDKs (Facebook, IronSource, AppLovin) in collaboration with marketing, contributing to user-acquisition strategies for a portfolio with millions of downloads.
  • Administered Google Workspace and internal tooling for a 20-person remote team — sole point of contact for technical onboarding and troubleshooting.
Groovy Jenkins AWS PHP October CMS Android iOS

Hacienda Otres Village · Operations Manager (Front of House)

Sihanoukville, Cambodia

  • Managed daily operations for a high-volume hospitality venue, coordinating workflows between kitchen, housekeeping, and service staff in Khmer.
  • Oversaw reservations and guest relations for a diverse international clientele, resolving conflicts and ensuring high-quality service delivery.

Chirpme Inc. · Software Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

  • Led full-stack web development for an international social networking application on a LAMP stack.
  • Specialized in Linux systems administration and MySQL database optimization to handle increasing user-data loads.
  • Owned release management, quality control, monitoring, and DevOps processes — significantly reducing downtime and deployment errors.
PHP MySQL Linux LAMP DevOps

Zynga, Inc. · Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

  • Developed social game features within a high-traffic LAMP stack environment (PHP, JavaScript, MySQL) for major titles including Mafia Wars and CityVille.
  • Shipped the CityVille Downtown expansion and Mafia Wars / FarmVille cross-promotion features in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
  • Conducted rigorous testing and debugging within a massive codebase, ensuring high availability and performance at 1–18 million DAU.
PHP ActionScript JavaScript MySQL LAMP

Sony Computer Entertainment America · Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

Foster City, CA

  • Developed and coordinated software test plans for third-party titles on PlayStation 3 and PSP, ensuring compliance with strict technical-requirement checklists.
  • Specialized in network functionality testing for online multiplayer titles, identifying critical connectivity issues prior to release.
PS3 PSP QA Network Testing

Selected Projects

QuitTrack

A full-featured smoking-cessation PWA with craving log, mindful breathing helper, savings tracker, and motivational notifications. Progress timeline supports four quit methods (cold turkey, NRT, MAT, tapering) and ships with seven selectable themes that mirror the look of common cigarette packs — so opening the app feels like reaching for the pack you used to reach for.

.NET PWA Web Push EF Core PostgreSQL

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