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Case Studies

Selected projects that demonstrate how I approach problems. No client names or confidential details — just patterns and outcomes.

Enterprise SaaS Lead Engineer · 6 months

Infrastructure Automation Platform

Designed and built a fully automated infrastructure provisioning platform handling 200+ servers across multiple data centers.

PythonTerraformDockerPostgreSQLRedisGrafana

Challenges

  • → Legacy manual provisioning taking 2-3 days per server
  • → No standardization across environments
  • → Zero visibility into infrastructure state

Outcomes

  • ✓ Provisioning time reduced from days to 15 minutes
  • ✓ 100% infrastructure-as-code coverage
  • ✓ Real-time dashboards for all environments
Personal project Architect & Developer · Ongoing

AI Twin — This Site

A personal portfolio site with an AI twin that can answer questions about my professional background, built with a full RAG pipeline.

FastAPIAstroPostgreSQLpgvectorGeminiClaudeDocker

Challenges

  • → Building a trustworthy AI chat that never fabricates information
  • → Two-layer adversarial defense against prompt injection
  • → GDPR compliance with encrypted message storage

Outcomes

  • ✓ Hybrid RAG search with 0.7/0.3 vector/keyword weighting
  • ✓ Two-layer injection defense (regex + LLM classifier)
  • ✓ Full DSAR support (export, delete, consent management)
Tech Startup Senior Engineer · 4 months

Observability Pipeline

Built a complete observability stack from scratch — metrics, logs, and traces — for a microservices platform processing 50k req/s.

OpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaLokiPythonGo

Challenges

  • → No existing monitoring beyond basic uptime checks
  • → Distributed tracing across 12 microservices
  • → Alert fatigue from previous naive threshold-based alerts

Outcomes

  • ✓ MTTR reduced from hours to minutes
  • ✓ SLO-based alerting with burn-rate windows
  • ✓ Custom dashboards for each team

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