Case studies

Detailed write-ups of significant engineering work. These are the artifacts I use to demonstrate how I think about technical problems.

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Legend of the Black Skies

Scaling 10,000 Players: Distributed State in Real-Time Tactical Environments

H3 hexagonal spatial sharding, worker-per-region consistency, Redis/etcd/DynamoDB storage architecture. A distributed game engine designed to exceed EVE Online's concurrency without time dilation.

Distributed SystemsConsistency ModelsSpatial IndexingKubernetes

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CogniCluster Engineering Practice

Architecture-Informed AI Delivery Pipeline

ADR-driven design decisions, spec-anchored AI coding workflows, Playwright and Storybook validation, GitHub Actions CI/CD with Terraform infrastructure.

CI/CDAI-Assisted DevelopmentTestingInfrastructure as Code

CarGurus

Monolith to Microservices at Scale

Led the decomposition of a monolithic Java application serving millions of daily users into domain-aligned microservices.

MicroservicesJavaDomain-Driven DesignMigration