Engineered Agentic AI Systems: Designed and built agentic AI systems using LLMs for automated troubleshooting and operational intelligence.

Full-Stack Tooling: Architected and built a full-stack developer tool (React/TypeScript, Kotlin/Spring) that uses LLMs to analyze Jenkins build failures, reducing MTTR for developers.

JVM Performance Optimization: Improved performance of critical JVM services through in-depth profiling, GC tuning, and code optimization.

CI/CD & Deployment Automation: Built a custom deployment orchestration tool for complex multi-stage deployments, featuring automated rollbacks and audit trails, improving deployment reliability.

Open Source Contributions: Contributed production patches to Apache Ranger and Azkaban, enhancing security and workflow scheduling capabilities for the enterprise.

Led the cloud migration of big data infrastructure, architecting the transition from on-premises Hadoop to AWS/Qubole.

Designed and developed a new generation of Expedia's ads targeting system, a high-performance real-time data service (TP95 <5ms) using Scala, Redis, and Apache Storm to process ~10k transactions/sec.

Created novel data analytics tools and workflow optimization systems, including tools to analyze Hive scripts and provide graphical data flow graphs.

Provided technical leadership for a team of 5 developers, establishing best practices and leading design efforts.

Led the productionalization of a prototype Java web service for decision support and automation, including design review, refactoring, and deployment.

Reduced CPU/memory load by 90% on large-scale web services through architectural improvements and production debugging.

Developed sophisticated static code analysis tools based on Eclipse's Java AST to support large-scale code cleanup and review of a Spring web services application.

Plugged-In Technologies: Created a cross-platform video conferencing app using Java/C for real-time video streaming.

Big Fish Games, Inc: Developed an Android video game streaming client using Java and ffmpeg.

Serials Solutions: Implemented new Java data services based on Hibernate, Cassandra, and Thrift.

Led a team of six, designed a high-performance data service and analytics platform for time series data using Java, Python/Jython, and Berkeley DB.

Designed a MySQL partitioning service and maintained a GWT web application.

Provided technical leadership, created a distributed real-time data reporting service, and developed Apache httpd C modules for routing and security.

Developed real-time DDoS detection and response systems.

Developed C# .NET commercial business applications for the gaming industry.

Roles at Hanson Truss, The Lannert Group, NRNDesigns.com, iCyt Visionary Bioscience, Texas Instruments, and Lucent Technologies, working with C++, AutoLISP, Java, and web technologies.