building infra for agents & reliable background jobs

rebuilt image rendering 90% more reliable, 70% cheaper, 50% faster (now photo albums work!), built our long running job platform and led automated customer region migrations. observability for oddly shaped services. helped put html on the cdn

helped robots sell more hotels (designed a pricing transparency framework that increased checkout conversion by 10%), helped reduce websocket volume by 38 fold, helped build security and account protection stuff that was very unhelpful to fraudsters (cut our fraud cases by 75%)

Course: Computer Architecture with Prof. Siddhartha Chatterjee

helped students understand how computers work, did cursed things with C, used some minecraft redstone and looted my roommate's arduino kit for live demos (thanks julian)

built an isolated search indexing test environment, ensuring the correctness of upgrades which cut spend by $2-4m/yr. then built some dev tools like an internal api discovery tool & playground

helped a yc startup with everything from early infrastructure to customer support to building features like Notion retrospectives and handling tens of thousands of incoming webhooks that all arrived at exactly 9am PT every day