Keeping AI agents from going rogue with automated least privilege.

• Developed a dashboard of Kafka cluster metrics to empower engineers with an interactive UI for pulling actionable insights on stream health with snapshots of bytes in/out, CPU usage, and broker count

• Harnessed Prometheus and React Router to scrape Kafka metrics with client-side queries and lazy loading of comprehensive data insights, resulting in a 30% reduction in CPU usage and server strain.

• Designed the Kafka Integration Engine in Node.js with Express, capable of ingesting high-throughput data streams exceeding 500 MB per second from Prometheus, ensuring seamless and efficient data flow

• Created the Real Time Monitoring Experience with Chart.js, bringing stream performance data to life with an intuitive, vibrant dashboard that updated every 2 seconds, optimized for a delightful developer experience

• Boosted build efficiency by 40% and expedited development by switching over to Vite from webpack and leveraging its hot module replacement (HMR) and native ES module imports

• Implemented TDD cycle with Vitest’s seamless integration to achieve 95% backend test coverage

• Redesigned cloud production infrastructure to halt business-stopping crashes that occurred every 3 months

• Built on-prem and AWS cloud media database with hybrid design for 99.999% availability

• Systematized QA testing and technical documentation, ensuring content quality for 100K+ subscribers

• Maintained websites using HTML/CSS and CMS and led technical education initiatives for 15 team members

Freelance sound recordist, dialogue editor, and sound designer.

Notable Projects:

Trade Center, dir. Adam Baran, 2020. Sound designer, re-recorder mixer. Premiered at SXSW 2021, with write-ups in GQ and Interview Magazine.

Cady Did, dir. Megan Hessenthaler, sound recordist. Received 12 nominations and 5 awards from the Indie Series Awards

Flu$h, dir. Heather Ács, 2018, respectively. Boom op, sound designer, re-recording mixer. Screened at Outfest, Newfest, and Hollyshorts, written up in Out and i-D Magazine.

• Leveraged a NoSQL database’s highly flexible, scalable, and performant architecture to streamline development and secure horizontal scalability of performance during fluctuations in user demand.

• Optimized builds with Webpack’s minification, uglification, and tree-shaking, resulting in faster load times.