Case studies
The problems worth writing up
Each one covers the context, the constraint that made it hard, what I actually did, and what I would do differently. The numbers are the ones that were measured, not the ones that sounded best.
Orchestrating 130+ autonomous agents in production
AI-First Software Engineer, Trilogy
Building the layer that lets LLM-driven agents run unattended against customer cloud infrastructure, and be trusted with what comes back.
99.9% execution reliability across millions of daily evaluations, failure rate under 0.1%
ai-agentsawsstep-functionslambdallmorchestrationStreamlining data flow for 230 million leads
Software Engineer II, Elite IT Team
A lead distribution platform holding 230M+ active records across 11 related tables, where a 15 minute query had to become a millisecond one without a schema migration.
Query time from 15 minutes to milliseconds, a 99.99% reduction, across 2.5B+ records
databasespostgresqlscalesystem-designaws165 million requests and a database running out of connections
Full Stack Developer, Techception
A serverless platform whose MongoDB connections scaled perfectly in lockstep with traffic, straight towards the ceiling. Connections went from 1,800 to 400.
78% fewer database connections, 45% faster p95, 99.9% availability after re-architecture
serverlessmongodbazuredockerscaleincidentFive legacy systems, one platform, 40% less infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer, Platform, OptoCeutics
Inheriting a fragmented Lambda estate across five legacy systems at a digital health company, and turning it into something a ten-person pod could actually operate.
40% infrastructure cost reduction, 65% less operational surface area, zero production incidents
platformawskafkaetlbigqueryleadershipRecovering corrupted InnoDB databases under pressure
Backend and infrastructure
A production database in an unrecoverable state and a business stopped behind it. Rebuilding InnoDB tablespaces, then making sure it could not happen the same way twice.
Operations restored, automated backups and version stability put in place afterwards
mysqlinnodbincidentrecoverydatabases