Owner, CEO, full-stack developer
KLK Code LLC
July 2017 – December 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos

- React
- Redux
- REST APIs
- Ruby on Rails
- WordPress
My first company. After nearly a decade of agency work across a number of industries, I started my own shop to better control the trajectory of my career. I freelanced while still holding full-time jobs at other companies for the first two years, going full-time as an independent contractor starting in 2019. Notable clients included:
Projects ranged from building and maintaining heavily modified/customized WordPress installs integrated with numerous external data sources to managing large WordPress Multi-site networks featuring heavy integration of proprietary, sensitive data to building React/Redux-powered front ends to consume API data from any number of sources.
It also allowed me more opportunities to work on my passion: API development and data architecture using Rails 6.
Due to numerous major life changes, I opted to wind down my obligations throughout 2021, and closed the business at the end of the year.
Projects from this role

Janus Henderson Investors – Global Web Platform (GWP)
At KLK Code LLC
GWP is a heavily customized WordPress Multisite network of well over 60 subsites for each country in which JHI operates, broken down by investor types, with…
- Custom plugins
- Custom themes
- Multisite
- WordPress

Janus Henderson Indices
At KLK Code LLC
A one-off site under the Janus Henderson Investors umbrella that uses design aesthetics similar to the Global Web Platform project. This site also incorporates…
- Custom themes
- WordPress

K16 Solutions
At KLK Code LLC
An entirely custom, WordPress theme built with heavy use of the Flexible Content field from Advanced Custom Fields. The design was mostly simple, but due to…
- ACF
- Custom themes
- WordPress