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Engineering Case Studies

Systems I've designed and operated, written up the way I'd want to read them: the problem, the architecture, the choices I'd defend, and the trade-offs I accepted.

case studyPlatform & DevOps Engineer2026 – ongoing

Shipping an AI Document Processing Platform Into a Locked-Down Enterprise Network

Deploying a document-intelligence platform onto customer-managed AKS behind an enterprise firewall that never says no — it silently drops traffic. Every network policy surfaced as an application bug; the work was proving which layer was lying.

AKS · Azure · Python · Django · SMTP · Artifactory

case studyPlatform Engineer2025 – 2026

Running 25+ Ephemeral QA Environments on Self-Managed RKE2 — and Surviving the Storage

A rapid-QA tier of 28 namespaces on a self-managed cluster where Longhorn shared the root disk with kubelet and reserved nothing. One full disk became a cluster-wide eviction cascade; this is the reliability campaign that followed.

RKE2 · Longhorn · Argo CD · Tekton · Harbor · KEDA