Software engineer.
I make systems reach
the machines they were
never designed for.
Two-time Google Summer of Code contributor (MIT App Inventor, Debezium / Red Hat). 26 merged pull requests across 13 open source organizations. Specializing in high-throughput distributed systems, CDC pipelines, and zero-downtime automation.
Selected Engineering Work
Stack & Systems Architecture
Languages & Runtimes
Java, Quarkus, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Gateway, systemd daemons, OpenAPI.
Data, Streaming & Locks
Debezium CDC, Apache Kafka, Apache Avro, Schema Registry, PostgreSQL, sorted pessimistic locking.
Infrastructure & Security
Ansible automation, Docker, Kubernetes, Keycloak 24 OAuth2/JWT, Prometheus, Zipkin.
Technical Deep Dives
From SSH Config to Running CDC Pipelines: Host-Based Deployment for Debezium Platform
A complete architectural guide to orchestrating native host-based Debezium change data capture deployments directly from SSH configurations without container runtime overhead.
Building Zero-Touch Host Provisioning for the Debezium Platform
Automating idempotent host provisioning with Ansible playbooks and systemd service daemons to achieve resilient, zero-downtime edge CDC instances.
Pipeline Deployment & Container Lifecycle with Background Polling: Building Debezium's Host Path
Implementing non-blocking HTTP 202 Accepted polling state machines, health monitoring, and asynchronous lifecycle controllers in Quarkus to eliminate gateway timeouts.
Build-Time CDI in Quarkus: Why @IfBuildProperty Changed My Entire GSoC Design
How compile-time dependency injection and build-time conditional bean resolution cut host agent resident memory to 34 MB and enabled instant native binary startup.
I Learned Ansible From Scratch for My Open-Source Project — Here's the Full Breakdown
A comprehensive, first-principles breakdown of mastering infrastructure-as-code: inventory configuration, idempotent roles, handler patterns, and vault secrets for production Linux hosts.
How I Finally Understood SSH Before Building a Real Open-Source Feature?
Demystifying asymmetric key cryptography, agent forwarding, strict host checking, and socket tunnels for secure remote daemon orchestration in open-source systems.
GSoC Progress (Weeks 1–4) at MIT App Inventor — Building a Responsive GWT Interface
Modernizing legacy Google Web Toolkit (GWT) visual blocks, debugging drag-and-drop boundary collisions, and shipping backward-compatible responsive layouts for 1M+ active users.