Projects

Selected engineering work across infrastructure tooling, streaming data platforms, distributed systems, and blockchain. I focus on architecture decisions, operational tradeoffs, and the correctness problems that only surface at the boundaries of a system.

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Case studies

Each project page covers the problem, architecture, key design decisions, and what I would do differently.

Professional2024

Platform Engineering — GitOps on EKS

Production infrastructure platform for a growing SaaS product — Terraform and Terragrunt across seven AWS accounts applied through Atlantis, Kubernetes workload delivery via ArgoCD with Flagger-based canary analysis, and two custom operators handling namespace provisioning and progressive delivery policy, replacing a manual process that blocked engineering teams for days at a time.

TerraformTerragruntAtlantisArgoCDApplicationSetsFlaggerKubernetesEKSKarpenterHelmGitHub ActionsGocontroller-runtimeKubebuilderOPA GatekeeperConftestExternal Secrets OperatorCert ManagerPrometheus OperatorAWS Load Balancer ControllerExternal DNSFluent BitAmazon ECRAWS Secrets ManagerAWS OrganizationsMSKAurora PostgreSQLElastiCacheOpenSearchTransit GatewayIRSAOIDC

Peak throughput5K req/s

p99 latency28ms (↓ from 140ms)

Annual compute savings~$124K (54% Spot)

AWS accounts7 (single region)

Deploy frequency50+ / day

MTTR8 min (auto-rollback)

Terraform modules18 reusable

Static credentialsEliminated

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Open Source2024

Pingdom Terraform Provider

Open-source Terraform Provider in Go that manages Pingdom monitoring resources — checks, contacts, and teams — as infrastructure code, with a layered expand/flatten/normalize model that enforces strict state consistency and eliminates phantom diffs across plan/apply cycles.

GoTerraform Plugin SDKPingdom APIHCL

Resources managed3 types

Check protocolsHTTP / Ping / TCP

Plan stabilityIdempotent

Import supportAll resources

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Side Project2022

Scalable Real-Time Streaming Twitter Data Analytic System

Streaming analytics pipeline that ingests Twitter data with Kafka, processes it through Spark Structured Streaming, stores semantic vectors in Milvus, and runs on Kubernetes for scale and resilience.

PythonKafkaSpark Structured StreamingKubernetesMilvusDocker

Streaming engineSpark

Message busKafka

Vector storeMilvus

OrchestrationKubernetes

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Earlier work

Older projects — coursework, side projects, and early-career builds — kept here for completeness.

Coursework2022

Paxos-based Sharded KV Storage System

Fault-tolerant distributed key-value store built for UW CSE 452 with exactly-once RPC, Viewstamped Replication, Multi-Paxos replication groups, and sharded transactions coordinated with 2PC and 2PL.

JavaPaxosViewstamped Replication2PC

Replication modelMulti-Paxos

Transaction model2PC + 2PL

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Side Project2022

Decentralized GameNFT Marketplace

Blockchain marketplace for game NFTs using Solidity, OpenZeppelin, Hardhat, Moralis, and IPFS, with off-chain storage, creator royalties, and hash-based anti-cheating validation.

SolidityOpenZeppelinHardhatIPFS

Token standardERC721

Asset storageIPFS

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Side Project2021

YANA - Clubhouse-like Voice Chatroom

Cloud-based voice and text chat platform built during the pandemic with React, Flask, Twilio, EC2, SQS, Celery, and AWS networking primitives for scalable room-based communication.

ReactFlaskPythonTwilio

Realtime mediaTwilio Voice

Async workersCelery + SQS

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