Selected work
Selected engineering work
Most of my work has been performed inside proprietary production systems. These case studies focus on the technical situation, my role, the work performed, and the measurable outcome without exposing confidential implementation details.
Where an initiative involved a larger team, I state that directly.
Case studies
Cloud modernization
Replatforming a legacy SaaS platform to AWS and Kubernetes
Played a central technical role in moving a long-lived production SaaS platform from colocated infrastructure to AWS EKS while maintaining continuity for active business operations.
Outcome: Production migration from colocation to AWS EKS
Technical areas: AWS, Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Networking, Observability
Read case studySearch and AI-assisted retrieval
Improving search speed by 99.67% while increasing result relevance
Modernized search for an enterprise RFP platform using LLM-based search and retrieval strategies, improving search speed by 99.67% while significantly increasing the relevance of returned results.
Outcome: 99.67% improvement in search speed
Technical areas: Backend services, Search and retrieval, LLM-based search strategies, Production measurement
Read case studyBackend platform performance
Producing a 100× processing-performance improvement
Reworked a critical processing path inside a high-volume SaaS messaging platform, producing a measured 100× performance improvement and restoring operating headroom.
Outcome: 100× processing-performance improvement
Technical areas: Backend processing, Event-driven architecture, Distributed SaaS systems, Performance profiling
Read case studyCurrent opportunities
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