• Designed and implemented a metadata mechanism for the caching infrastructure of AtlasDB, a transactional layer on top of key-value stores

• Improved observability and debuggability of multiple AtlasDB components

• Containerized all major product components using Docker and Bazel

• Built a Kubernetes-based System Under Test for benchmarking and regression testing (reached within 5% of production HTAP performance)

• Implemented provisioning of Kubernetes pods instead of cloud provider VMs

• Utilized GraalVM's native image tool and Profile-Guided Optimizations to achieve performance uplifts for JavaScript execution in the Oracle Database Multilingual Engine (MLE)

• Created a dedicated benchmarking driver to compare different builds and configurations

• Authored comprehensive reports about the experimental evaluation

• Developed and maintained a distributed system consisting of multiple microservices to

demonstrate and evaluate different best practices and technologies for event-driven archi-

tectures in an IoT environment

• Assessed the dapr framework and EventStoreDB as part of the Siemens mentoring program

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