Each case study covers a concrete problem, the technical trade-offs, implementation, and operational lessons.
2025 - 2026 · Architect and primary technical lead: proof of concept, architecture, development, production rollout, and handover
Distributed backup and recovery infrastructure: from a Kopia vs. Restic POC to production across ~200 Perforce instances (~1.3 PB source data, ~940 TB backed up).
- ~200Perforce instances
- ~1.3 PBsource data
- ~940 TBbacked up
- Restic
- Resticprofile
- Python
- Chef
- systemd
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure Arc
- HashiCorp Vault
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Elasticsearch
- Azure Monitor
2026 · Architecture and development, commissioned by Security Risk Management
Cross-region recovery infrastructure: independent copies of ~940 TB of Restic backups across two Azure region pairs, with monthly delta synchronization.
- ~940 TBof backups replicated
- 4Azure regions
- 41automated tests
- Python 3.13
- Azure Functions
- Durable Functions
- AzCopy
- Terraform
- Azure Blob Storage
- Managed Identity
- OIDC / WIF
- GitLab CI/CD
- pytest
- Azurite
2021 - 2025 · Contributed to an existing project, supported production rollout, then assumed primary ownership of the service
Enterprise platform automating MySQL and Redis backup, storage, retention, validation, and restoration on Kubernetes.
- ~190Redis/MySQL servers
- 2database engines
- ~US$200K/yrsavings (service-level)
- Python
- Django REST
- Go
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Terraform
- Azure AKS
- Azure Blob Storage
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Elasticsearch
- HashiCorp Vault
- GitLab CI/CD
2026 · Personal MLOps and LLM engineering learning project
Personal CVE/LLM project: experiments exposed evaluation errors and RAG limitations, leading to a design that separates verifiable facts from generated content.
- 24,292unique indexed CVEs
- 50held-out test CVEs
- 184pytest tests passed
- Python
- Mistral 7B / LoRA
- PyTorch / ROCm
- ChromaDB / RAG
- MLflow
- DVC
- FastAPI
- Docker
- pytest