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Castle Risk Online
Personal Project2025 - present
Castle Risk Online is an online multiplayer board game with chat, animations, and AI players. It supports social login, mobile, dark mode, and is a blast to play with family and friends.
The game is built with React, with jotai for atomic state management on the frontend, and optimistic state synchronization viaWebSockets, proxied thru a K8s (Kubernetes) ingress controller equipped with Cert Manager to the underlying Express JS servers, which autoscale based on tcp connection rules, and use RxJS for Functional Programming stream processing of game events.
Key Results
- Launched fully functional multiplayer game with realtime chat, social login, mobile + desktop support, dark mode
- Achieved <200ms latency for real-time game state synchronization across all players
- Kubernetes + Skaffold used for cloud-agnostic deployments
Heartpoints.org
The Currency of Good2019 - 2023
A working prototype and specs for how heartpoints would be rewarded and exchanged and linked to "Proof of Good" that could be validated off-chain (since proof of good in this case may for example, be video evidence or other data that is too large to fit onto the chain), using a strategy of hashing the proof and storing the hash and URL of the proof's off-chain content.
Key Results
- Built blockchain-based "proof-of-good" currency prototype with off-chain validation
- Motivated a team of 5 to ideate and experiment on making the world a better place
MapR Technologies
Big Data / Hadoop Distributor2015 - 2018
A portal bringing together version control, automated test definitions and statuses, quality metrics, jira tickets, CICD jobs, and supportinginfrastructure definitions and status into a single place to aid in release management and devops practices.
Behind the scenes, pipelines made with K8s (Kubernetes), Mesos, Github and Jenkins automatically provisioned environments, deployed our software and ran extensive tests on it, including complex multi-cloud platform scale tests across Google Cloud and AWS as well as on prem with bare metal and Open Stack
I initiated and led "Scala Dojo" ,partnering with QA / Devs interested in adoption of Functional Programming, leading to certifications from Coursera and improved team morale and interest.
That broadened and continued on as "DevOps Dojo", which was a recurring collaboration initiative that produced theDevOps Portal + CICD by engaging across teams and disciplines to ascertain true priority pain points and solutions that scaled across multiple teams, so that we could address those via CI/CD and our DevOps practices.
Key Results
- Unified 5 disparate DevOps tools into single portal reducing context switching by 80%
- Trained 8+ engineers in Scala and functional programming with Coursera certifications
- Automated multi-cloud testing across GCP, AWS, and on-prem reducing test setup time by 80%