Work

I led architecture for the Assessment Monitoring observability stack — a state-machine model over raw lifecycle data, a polling-friendly query layer, and structured error capture surfaced through a single dashboard used by engineering and clinical staff. I designed and ran live schema migrations on production data, including a JSON→relational conversion with drift recovery and atomic backfill. The backend orchestration patterns I shaped around an external AI service — transactional guarantees, idempotency, lossless persistence — became long-term conventions for the team.

Go · Python · TypeScript · PostgreSQL

I built a low-resolution face recognition system (FaceNet + KNN) for analyzing CCTV footage, and a Kafka + Go service that reliably handles thousands of ad display events. I developed a computer-vision system for tracking cylinders in industrial operations, and worked with IoT devices across the floor. One job I'm fond of: rescuing a hospital's dying nurse-call server by virtualizing a decade-old physical appliance — including reverse-engineering a Java license check that tied the software to the motherboard's hardware UUID, and shimming dmidecode so the VM could inherit the original machine's identity.

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Go · Python · Kafka · KVM · FaceNet · IoT

Co-founded a ticketing platform and built it across the stack: authentication, verification, and password-reset flows, with performance work that minimizes database round-trips — and a habit of attacking our own site before anyone else does.

Vue · Go · PostgreSQL · Redis

Built and maintained the backend for a platform supporting international students in the US, set up the CI/CD pipeline that sped up deployments, and mentored junior developers.

Next.js · TypeORM · PostgreSQL · Amazon SES