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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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