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Hey, I'm Kortney. I'm a Software Engineer at PagerDuty, building full-stack features in React/TypeScript and Elixir. On the side I design and build for the web — whether that's a production-grade marketing site and storefront for a creator, or a full-stack web application from the ground up. Architecture-first, built to last.

About Me

After earning my degree in Information Technology, I started out as a TIBCO developer at Synovus Financial Corp, then spent time as a fullstack developer at Aspirion before moving into product engineering at PrizePicks. At doxo I owned and scaled APIs powering 10M+ subscriptions, then shipped Go microservices on a focused contract at U.S. Bank. Today I'm a Software Engineer at PagerDuty, building full-stack features in React/TypeScript and Elixir on the Product Strategy & Growth team.

I work architecture-first and AI-accelerated. I use modern tooling to move fast, but I care about the shape of the system underneath: observability, CI/CD, resilience, and the boring fundamentals that keep software alive in production. I'm comfortable across Elixir, Go, Ruby on Rails, React, and TypeScript, and I've spent most of my career close to the systems that actually carry load.

On the side, I build for creators and small businesses: headless commerce, production-grade marketing sites, and full-stack web applications from the ground up. What makes it different is the same production engineering discipline I use at work: tests in CI, performance budgets, real CSPs, observability. Brought to projects that are usually handed templates. Not fancier, just built to last.

My Projects

Self-directed · Full-stack productLive
firstcrack.io
First Crack web app — Atlanta map with a place detail panel
First Crack iOS app — Atlanta map with clustered coffee-shop pins

First Crack

A curated specialty-coffee discovery platform — native iOS app, web app, and documented API — covering 380+ hand-verified shops across Georgia with editorial depth no competitor matches.

380+
Curated places
3
Platforms
90%
Backend coverage
0
Third-party SDKs
6
Georgia cities

Capabilities

  • Editorial vibe summaries & curated taxonomy
  • First-party auth, push, analytics — zero vendor lock-in
  • AI-powered auto-moderation pipeline
  • PostGIS geospatial search with clustering
  • Roasters-on-bar & brew method metadata
  • On-device geofencing for proximity alerts
  • Universal Links & unified deep link router
  • Documented REST API with Swagger UI

Stack

  • SwiftUI
  • MapKit
  • Core Haptics
  • Elixir
  • Phoenix
  • PostgreSQL
  • PostGIS
  • Oban
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Mapbox GL
  • Claude Haiku
  • Fly.io
  • Cloudflare R2
  • Sentry
  • Playwright
iOS
SwiftUI · iOS 18
Web
React · Vite · Vercel
API
Phoenix · Fly.io
Client work · FreelanceLive

AllieCat Cosplay

Production-grade headless storefront and portfolio site for a creator-led cosplay brand, replacing a legacy Squarespace site with a custom stack built for performance, SEO, and editorial quality.

  • Headless Shopify commerce with live YouTube and Twitch integrations
  • Git-based Decap CMS with GitHub OAuth for client-side edits
  • Graceful degradation so no external service can hard-fail the site
  • Production observability, monitoring, and analytics: Sentry, GoatCounter, Lighthouse and bundle budgets, and a Playwright E2E suite in CI
  • Headless Shopify
  • Decap CMS
  • React
  • Vite
  • TypeScript
  • Netlify
  • Cloudinary
  • Sentry
  • GoatCounter
  • Playwright

My Experience

My Skills

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Contact Me

Have a project in mind or want to work together? Send a message below, or email me directly at kortneystinson@gmail.com.