Selected Work
Deep dives into real-world engineering challenges: the problem, the approach, and what happened.
Pipeline Platform: A Config-Driven Document Processing System
Orchestrator, workers, dashboard, auth, and an MCP bridge built around a single DAG model
Pipeline Orchestrator: One DAG to Replace 534 Processors
A config-driven DAG engine for court-document processing with terminal evaluation and publish-before-commit safety
Pipeline Workers: Ten Generic Stages That Coexist With a Legacy Schema
Generic sub-processors over RabbitMQ, with read-only entity scan to share a database without owning it
Pipeline Dashboard: A Thin SPA and the API-Perimeter Lesson
A Vue 3 operator surface that grew from read-only observability to config editing without ever owning a mutation
Pipeline Auth: A Standalone JWT Issuer With a Zero-Downtime Cutover
A Micronaut auth service that decoupled the new platform from the legacy stack, and the dual-controller alias pattern that shipped it without an outage
MCP Bridge: Shipping the Data Plane, Deferring the Framework
Building MCP-aware tooling against a framework that was still picking its annotation style
EventHorizon: The Ultimate Data Detection Engine
A polymorphic ingestion, detection, and alerting platform born from solving the same problem across four companies
CI/CD Pipeline Optimization
Reducing build times from 47 minutes to under 8
EKS Cluster Migrations
Zero-downtime Kubernetes upgrade under deadline pressure