Projects & case studies

Selected engineering work, architectural decisions, and incident write-ups, with links to source code where public.

HIPAA-Minded PII Isolation & Access Control

Full Stack Engineer · Empat Speech

Architected external PII storage, an AWS SQS synchronization pipeline with dead-letter queueing, and multi-layered Cognito and AppSync access control so sensitive student data never lives in the primary database or leaks to unauthenticated therapy sessions.

  • AWS SQS
  • AWS Cognito
  • AWS AppSync
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • SST
  • AWS

LLM Story Generation & Clinical Progress Reports

Full Stack Engineer · Empat Speech

Built two production LLM workflows on AWS Bedrock and Gemini: multi-page visual story generation with persistent character context, dynamic student questions, and real-time SSE streaming, plus schema-validated clinical progress reports linked to source sessions.

  • AWS Bedrock
  • Gemini
  • Server-Sent Events (SSE)
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • AWS

Resolving a Peak-Hour GraphQL Subscription Incident

Chief Technology Officer · GoPato

Diagnosed and patched a live launch-period order service overload at GoPato caused by a GraphQL subscription filter feedback loop, then introduced automated stress testing to prevent fan-out regressions.

  • GraphQL
  • Apollo
  • Node.js
  • Microservices
  • React
  • React Native