Production systems
Authorization & integration APIs
A set of IAM pipelines and authorization APIs acting as Policy Information Points and Policy Decision Points, so policy data and access decisions live in one place rather than being reimplemented per application.
- Designed a secure OAuth 2.0 token exchange flow that establishes partner sessions without reauthentication, minimizing shared user data through scoped claims and masked identifiers.
- Built an integration API for AI-driven analytics that centralizes third-party authentication and data transformations, isolating latency-sensitive queries from large-scale exports.
- Helped drive company-wide Model Context Protocol adoption by delivering integrations with existing APIs and setting implementation standards for other teams.
Public GraphQL API & federation gateway
Technical lead from inception for a flagship public-facing API, working directly with clients to shape requirements, architecture, and delivery.
- Standardized API security and service exposure with an Apollo Federation gateway and OAuth 2.0, creating one consistent integration layer across services.
- Doubled release frequency with reusable CircleCI Orbs that standardized testing, staging, and deployment.
- Led adoption of Terraform for infrastructure as code, reducing configuration drift and infrastructure-related defects.
Distributed data platform
Systems processing terabytes of data daily for enterprise clients, delivered across 15+ REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs in Kubernetes and other containerized environments.
- Cut query execution times by 40% and substantially lowered data-platform and cloud costs through schema optimization, resource allocation, and redesigning legacy services.
- Maintained 99.9% availability by establishing SLOs, monitoring SLIs, and building dashboards and automated alerts that reduced investigation time from hours to minutes.
- Designed event-driven workflows with Google Pub/Sub for scalability and eventual consistency across distributed services.
Radiomic feature extraction pipelines
Python pipelines for radiomic feature extraction and statistical analysis of panoramic dental radiographs, supporting research into imaging biomarkers associated with bone health outcomes in patients with multiple myeloma.
- Second author on a research poster to be presented at the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology 2026 Annual Meeting.
Side projects
Tabletop simulator
A web-based tabletop simulator supporting 200+ concurrent users, with real-time game state synchronization built in TypeScript with React and Express.js.
Classroom Assistant
Led a team of 4 building a low-latency real-time classroom feedback system for 100+ users, using Python and TypeScript with Flask, React, and web sockets.
Foveated vision for object tracking
Investigated the effectiveness of foveated vision systems for identifying and tracking objects in live video feeds, using Python, OpenCV, and NumPy.
Technical writing
10+ articles for other software engineers, breaking down topics like GraphQL pagination with cursor connections and Rust’s ownership, borrowing, and lifetime rules.