- Configured Kafka cluster on a local host for development and testing in order to create an open source solution for monitoring the health of clusters operating with the KRaft controller election consensus protocol, which will supplant Apache Zookeeper for Kafka cluster controller management with the next major update to Kafka.- Migrated JMX Exporter to scale horizontally as an HTTP agent with Prometheus to create a more flexible monitoring platform, allowing for monitoring of brokers at default JMX endpoints thereby reducing the need for user configuration of scrape targets.- Employed React to engineer an interactive dashboard of draggable, resizable, and reusable graphs with live state management.- Engineered a Node/Express back end, minimizing overall application overhead while providing a flexible middleware chain for handling a wide variety of user requirements such as management of CRUD operations on a PostgreSQL DB, live-updates of configuration files on the local machine, and discovery of Kafka brokers from a seed broker through an external Kafka library.- Leveraged Electron to consolidate application technologies to ensure cross-platform compatibility, providing a stable application for Kafka engineers working in a variety of operating environments and a more potent application that leverages Electron’s access to the local filesystem to dynamically modify Kafka/Prometheus/Grafana YAML configuration files and initialize Docker processes.- Authored automated client and server-side Jest tests in order to improve the robustness of the codebase and to prevent regressions.- Utilized Prometheus as a querying and scraping tool for Kafka cluster metrics for visualization with Grafana, providing horizontal scalability for monitoring and alerting on multiple Kafka clusters, simplifying the user interface through templating for data sources.- Accelerated by OSLabs

- Architected a Typescript/Express server, providing a strongly typed backend with improved stability, error handling, and predictability in managing complex state data from parsing user-created diagrams into a LLM-readable string format for queries.- Built RESTful API endpoints to interact with the OpenAI API with inputs generated by parsing user-created diagrams.

- Leveraged Next.JS’s caching and routing architecture to reduce sever load and improve SEO optimization via server-side rendering.- Optimized database queries by implementing joins to avoid fetch waterfalls and improve load-time and stability of asynchronous operations.- Crafted custom hooks, contexts, and styled-components, providing cohesiveness and intuitive syntax for media queries & managing global states.- Authoring Jest tests with React Testing Library to automate testing flow and improve codebase resiliency.- Integrated Google cloud services for server- and client-side management of delivery data to optimize route efficiency and to provide a familiar, intuitive interface for both client and retailer in managing order fulfillment.- Implemented PostgresSQL for both application and authentication services, providing robust security of user data by utilizing PSQL row-level security policies, management of cookie/session data for user authentication/authorization flow, and integration with OAuth2.0 and standard SMTP email verification.

- Implementing a React frontend styled with CSS modules for flexible, reusable styling, and for minimizing unused CSS to reduce bundle size- Integrating Zustand for global state management, providing performance improvements over React Context by ensuring minimal state updates.- Constructing an Express server to query a PSQL database of test questions, written in TypeScript to improve server stability and dev process.- Utilizing PSQL for authentication services to provide robust app security by restricting database access through RLS policies.

- Maintaining and incrementally updating a legacy Wordpress-hosted website by adjusting PHP theme files, managing code updates where necessary based on company budget, timeline for completion, and value added to core business needs.- Oversaw the company’s COVID-19 transition to a fully-remote service, weighing the cost and quality of remote services and providing onboarding training for employees to become fluent with the applications, providing alternative solutions in case of incompatible technologies or services.

- Provided K-12 academic tutoring for subjects ranging from K-12 Math to English, Reading, Biology, Comp Sci, Chemistry, etc.- Coached tutors on pedagogical theory and best practices for instruction, providing content expertise where needed to ensure quality instruction.