▸ Leveraged AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Copilot) to build TypeScript / Node.js system for

encoding rules of original board game, and conducting automated, parallelized playtesting using Monte Carlo Tree Search.

▸ Rapidly prototyped a real-time speech-to-text interface for the Shakespeare Programming Language, integrating the Google

Cloud Speech API with an existing Python REPL.

▸ Started and ran weekly code review meetings for other retreat participants, which faculty adopted as an official retreat event.

▸ Designed and implemented engineering-wide authorization framework in Python, evaluating and presenting multiple architectural approaches and documenting tradeoffs, and directly advancing company's long-term "single platform" vision.

▸ Led 3-person development team to decouple frontend builds from monolithic build system by creating dedicated pipelines in

AWS CodePipeline / GitHub Actions for each web application and parameterizing a shared Docker container, reducing frontend deployment time by 75% and enabling teams to manage their frontend builds and deployments independently.

▸ Developed and launched new client-facing web application in close collaboration with product team, building React components, GraphQL endpoints, Python / Flask backend service methods to query PostgreSQL database, PyTest unit tests, and supporting Terraform-controlled AWS infrastructure.

▸ Identified root cause of persistent spike in Datadog costs for monitoring AWS EC2 instances after previous cost reduction

efforts had been unsuccessful, saving the company roughly $20k per month.

▸ Introduced IAM group-based access control to AWS organization. Based group permissions on the principle of least privilege, historical access records in AWS Access Analyzer, end-user feedback, and post-launch monitoring in CloudTrail.