Developed a best-in-class adventure photo hosting platform, initially to host my own photography but now open to all. Check it out at www.lumathon.com. Features include:

• Rapid bulk uploading, with server-side GPU processing and client-side progressive streaming of imagery

• No-code plugin system for embedding photos and galleries into one's personal website

• Geospatial mapping tool utilizing extensively processed and indexed large publicly-available datasets

• Integration with Stripe Billing to support a paid subscription tier

Technologies: C++, CUDA, Kotlin, React, SQL, Postgres, SPARQL, WebGL, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, PubSub, Spring Boot, PostGIS, jOOQ, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata

Advised and architected backend systems during a product pivot from "specialized video-conferencing platform" to "machine learning and targeted promotions tooling for web3 applications" for an early stage startup, including:

• Large-scale, distributed data-mining and analysis of Ethereum blockchain

• Machine learning pipelines for generating actionable insights about crypto users

• Productionalization of resultant data within live web services

Technologies: BigQuery, Neo4J, Dataflow, Apache Beam, Postgres, Java, TypeScript

Expanded the feature-set of a specialized video-conferencing web application, including:

• Real-time participant polling

• Interactive and collaborative visual brainstorming tools

• Consensus-based moderation and "kick" functionality

• Automated scale-testing up to thousands of users within a single videoconference room

• Integration with Stripe Billing and Stripe Connect to support subscriptions and revenue-sharing

Technologies: Google Cloud Platform stack including Dart, Firebase, Firestore, Flutter, Cloud Functions

Served as team leader for platform engineering, and architected several backend systems, including:

• E-commerce order routing and subscription handling service

• Interface for data transfer (EDI) to and from legacy retail partners using open source tools

• Internal authentication layer across multiple services

• Integration with internal ERP system

Technologies: Java, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Python, EDI, RabbitMQ, Airflow