Case studies

Selected work.

A subset of recent engagements. Client names are anonymized where the work is under NDA; the metrics and outcomes are real.

Open-source infrastructure project (anonymized)

Architecting an open-source observability tool

Nov 2025

Led the v1.0 architecture for an open-source observability tool. Three releases to 8k GitHub stars; design adopted by two major cloud providers' reference deployments.

GitHub stars: 8.2k
Time to v1.0: 9 months
Contributors: 47
P99 ingestion latency: <8ms

Rust
Apache Arrow
gRPC
OpenTelemetry
Kubernetes

Series B SaaS DevOps company (anonymized)

Building a multi-tenant CI/CD platform from scratch

Mar 2025

Designed and shipped the first version of their multi-tenant CI/CD platform in 14 weeks. Pipeline median runtime went from 45 minutes to 4 minutes.

Pipeline median runtime: 45m → 4m
Concurrent builds supported: 12 → 400+
Time to first green build: 8 weeks
Beta cohort churn: -60%

Kubernetes
BuildKit
PostgreSQL
NATS
Go

Series A fintech (anonymized)

Rebuilding a payments ledger for a Series A fintech

Sep 2024

Replaced a fragile nightly batch with a real-time double-entry ledger, cutting reconciliation time by 70% and saving $8k/mo in ops overhead.

Reconciliation time: -70%
Monthly cost saved: $8k
P99 ledger query latency: 42ms
On-call pages: -92%

PostgreSQL
Go
Kafka
Temporal
TimescaleDB