Government Navigator

Government Navigator is a go-to-market sales and marketing intelligence platform tailored for state, local, and education IT vendors. By leveraging millions of data signals and decades of procurement expertise, it delivers real-time insights from early buyer-intent and pre-RFP alerts to verified contacts, jurisdictional profiles, statewide IT contracts, and curated market briefings so clients can uncover emerging opportunities and focus on winning deals instead of doing the homework.

Lead DevelopereRepublic LLCDecember 2017 - Present8 years, 3 months

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About This Project

I led a team of four developers to build and maintain a PHP/Laravel application that helps citizens find and access government services. The platform integrates with multiple government APIs and provides an intuitive search interface.

Key Achievements

Scaled platform to support hundreds of daily active users
Led team of 4 developers through complete platform rebuild
Implemented robust search functionality using OpenSearch and allowing in-flight re-indexing
Established CI/CD pipeline reducing deployment time by 75%
Moved from a monolithic application to a microservices architecture with a focus on scalability and maintainability
Implemented Unit Testing and Integration Testing to ensure the quality of the code
Created a fully virtualized development environment using Docker Compose to allow for high fidelity local development and testing
Implemented Redshift as a data warehouse to allow for data warehousing and analytics
Helped integrate OpenAi for rapid AI-powered categorization and summarization of documents
Led a project to bring the application into compliance with SOC 2
Architected and built a production AI agent system with 12+ MCP tool classes (search, RFP intelligence, analytics, territory, content, support ops), agentic planning loops, async job execution via queue services, and persona-based session management
Designed multi-agent architecture with tool-calling orchestration, server-side OpenAI proxy for credential isolation, and comprehensive test suites validating tool execution and DB parity

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