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Case Studies

Deep dives into real-world engineering challenges: the problem, the approach, and what happened.

Optimization
47min → <8min Build Time Reduction

CI/CD Pipeline Optimization

Reducing build times from 47 minutes to under 8

How I restructured a monolith's build system and CI pipeline: replacing Dockerfile builds with JIB, adding per-app change detection, and cutting pipeline times by 83%.

CI/CD DevOps Performance Gradle
Architecture

EventHorizon: The Ultimate Data Detection Engine

A polymorphic ingestion, detection, and alerting platform born from solving the same problem across four companies

Designing a generic, pluggable anomaly detection platform using Apache Flink, Kafka, Micronaut, and ML/LLM integration. The culmination of building similar systems in Ruby, Java, Python, and TypeScript across multiple industries.

Flink Kafka Micronaut ML
Infrastructure
0 Minutes of Downtime

EKS Cluster Migrations

Zero-downtime Kubernetes upgrade under deadline pressure

Upgrading EKS clusters to v1.32 and migrating Karpenter to v1 across 100+ production services with zero downtime, all as a solo DevOps engineer racing to avoid extended support charges.

Kubernetes AWS EKS Terraform