TECHNICAL CASE STUDIES

In-depth technical writeups covering architecture, implementation details, lessons learned, and outcomes. Both professional work and side projects.

in prodshipped · IBM
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Keysensus

ai

Context-aware data-governance service at IBM (HashiCorp). Applies policy decisions using business and service context — instead of static field-only matching — across distributed production pipelines, with an auditable draft → review → publish → revoke lifecycle. The control layer that determines what data is safe for downstream AI and analytics systems to use.

Data governanceDistributed systemsProduction deploymentIBMHashiCorp
54%faster ETL · Moody's

ETL Pipeline Optimization

data

Modernized high-throughput data pipeline at Moody's Analytics using PySpark and Databricks, reducing processing time by 54% while handling larger datasets — the data-velocity foundation downstream analytics and AI workloads depend on.

PySparkDatabricksETLPerformance optimizationMoody's Analytics
$1.2Mrevenue · Moody's

Sanctions Compliance System

aidata

Built AWS Bedrock-powered sanctions compliance system at Moody's Analytics that generated $1.2M in revenue. Secure, compliant production AI for financial regulatory workflows — high-security AI tooling for finance that customers paid for.

AWS BedrockLLMsComplianceRevenue generationMoody's Analytics
92%citation accuracy

LangChain Citation System

ai

Developed LangChain-powered RAG citation system at Moody's Analytics using GPT-4 Turbo, achieving 92% citation accuracy. Solved the hallucination problem with page-level source verification — LLM evaluation and grounding work, before it had a job title.

LangChainGPT-4 TurboRAG pipelinesCitation accuracyMoody's Analytics
24/7politely retrying
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Internet Historian

aidata

A patient Wayback Machine archiver. It treats a busy Internet Archive as weather rather than failure and retries until your pages are actually preserved.

PythonSQLitelaunchdWayback MachinePyPIClaude Code skill
25k+anime entries
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Anime Analyst

dataai

Natural-language query system over 25k+ anime entries: PostgreSQL, a local ReAct SQL agent, and a Streamlit frontend. CMU capstone, presented at Anime Boston 2026.

PythonPostgreSQLLangChainStreamlitOllamaReAct agents
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NLP

Twitter Archive Pipeline

data

ETL pipeline that turns Twitter/X export files into a searchable dataset with NLP sentiment and topic classification, built for longitudinal self-analysis.

PythonPandasspaCyDuckDBDagster
26,720likes, finally read

Digital Wellness Through Data

dataai

Interactive case study mining a decade of personal social media data (26,720 Twitter likes, 4,500 saved YouTube videos, 500+ LinkedIn connections) to reveal what the algorithm sees. CMU data mining final project, published as a scrollytelling site.

PythonPandasHuggingFace TransformersScikit-learnStatsmodelsReactRecharts
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Hamster Wheels

ai

17-agent AI system for personal life management, built in Craft on Claude MCP. Each agent owns one life domain: triage, career, finance, events.

CraftClaudeMCPAgentic workflows
2pets rescued so far
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Desktop Pet Rescue

fandommacos

A porting practice: adopting cute Windows-only desktop apps and giving them a second life on native macOS. Two Chiikawa pets so far, with prominent credit to the original developers and fixes offered back upstream, including an open PR for Mac support.

PythonPyQt6Godot 4.4GDScriptmacOS
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Gremlin Goods

maker

Maker studio producing laser-cut items, sublimation prints, acrylic charms, and button sets, with automated design-to-production workflows. Commissions open for conventions, events, nonprofits, and artist collabs. Charity donations (GDQ, Frost Fatales) stay at the core.

GlowforgeSilhouette CameoSublimation printingButton maker
livenewsletter
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Data Gremlin Go Brr

writing

Substack newsletter on AI tools and data systems for practitioners: the intersection of technical work with everyday life.

SubstackTechnical writingData storytelling
RAGdiscord bot

Uma Musume Q&A Bot

aifandom

Citation-first RAG Discord bot for Uma Musume game mechanics, answering with page-level source attribution from a 200+ page community reference doc.

PythonLangChainOpenAI EmbeddingsFAISSDiscord.py