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Own the architecture and delivery of Lighthouse, a platform that screens every submission across Elsevier's journal portfolio for research integrity issues. Lead a distributed team of 5 engineers spanning three time zones.
- Cut ethics review turnaround from months to 15 minutes per flagged submission
- Shipped 3 net-new products (Reference Analyzer, GRE Platform, Declaration Tool) — each adopted org-wide
- Led 5 engineers across US, EU, and Indonesia; sprint deliveries consistently within 1-sprint cycle
- Improved team velocity 15% by introducing test automation, shared coding standards, and internal tooling
- Architected 20+ real-time analytical signals processing 4M+ submissions/year on AWS EKS
- Migrated CI/CD from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, cutting pipeline time and eliminating manual infrastructure drift with Terraform
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Promoted from engineer to lead over 5+ years, owning identity, billing, and communication services for a major US telecom provider. Rebuilt legacy systems into cloud-native microservices serving 26M monthly users.
- Collapsed billing response times from 2.5–4 minutes to 200–500ms — a 300x improvement
- Architected AWS/Kubernetes microservices layer handling 26M users/month across 3 service domains
- Cut payment processing costs 8% by modernizing the legacy billing backend
- Pioneered contract-first API development — adopted as org standard, reducing integration test time 22%
- Grew and directed cross-functional teams of 4–7 engineers across identity, billing, and comms
- Eliminated a class of duplicate payment incidents through architecture redesign and idempotency controls
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Delivered backend systems and API modernization engagements for two enterprise clients — a state-run insurer and a global HR platform — as an early-career consultant.
- Built the RESTful API layer for Citizens' ePAS application, ensuring compliance with Florida insurance legislation
- Replaced legacy SOAP services with REST, reducing integration complexity and onboarding time for downstream teams
- Designed and executed a large-scale data migration strategy for ADP enterprise HR systems
- Authored unit/integration testing framework that brought the QA team from near-zero to 80% coverage
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A family genealogy app with server-computed tree layouts and interactive visualization. Handles complex structures like remarriages and multiple parents. Server-side layout computation keeps mobile clients fast — the tree is positioned once and streamed to every device.
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The site you're on right now. A CSS-first Astro static site with a single React island for the AI chat. The chatbot runs on a self-hosted llama.cpp instance with RAG over my resume via sqlite-vec. Total JS for the static site: ~40 lines.
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A self-managed Proxmox homelab provisioned end-to-end with OpenTofu. Runs 20+ Docker containers across LXCs — including llama.cpp with GPU passthrough (AMD Radeon 890M), Jellyfin, monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), automated backups to PBS, and secure external access via Pangolin on OCI. Infrastructure-as-code manages everything from container creation to Traefik routing.