Remote agents, cloud services, observability, update and recovery infrastructure, and software that runs inside cinemas. Every one of them exists because something upstream is unreliable, and pretending otherwise doesn't scale.
Distributed systems
Go · SQLite · Distributed queues · Linux / Windows
Qube Cinema · Staff scope
Modernizing a long-lived remote agent into Go: durable local queues, cloud command handling, heartbeats, scheduling, and a behavior-preserving migration off a legacy runtime that nobody downstream is supposed to notice.
Engineering focus — Delivery semantics, restart safety, and clear ownership across concurrent workers.
Platform engineering
Go · A/B slots · systemd · Windows SCM
Qube Cinema · Staff scope
A self-update architecture for software deployed to machines I will never physically touch: verified artifacts, A/B installations, atomic activation, candidate probation, crash-loop detection, and automatic rollback.
Engineering focus — The known-good version stays recoverable through every step of the transaction.
Cloud & reliability
OpenTelemetry · OpenObserve · Kubernetes · OTLP
Qube Cinema · Staff scope
Instrumenting agent workflows across callbacks, schedules, persistent queues, and cloud commands with traces, structured logs, and metrics — then proving it on real virtual machines rather than in a diagram.
Engineering focus — Trace context survives the three places it usually dies: the queue, the restart, and the network hop.
Media systems · Rust
Rust · wgpu · GPU rendering · DCI / SMPTE
Qube Cinema · Earlier role
Led the design and build of a next-generation playback system in Rust, with a wgpu-powered rendering pipeline for hardware-accelerated video. Owned the low-level and high-level design: service boundaries, security model, and a Rust-centric architecture.
Engineering focus — Frame stability and low latency, in a room where a crash is three hundred people in the dark.
Media systems · Rust
Rust · GStreamer · Encrypted media · Pipeline debugging
Qube Cinema · Earlier role
Built a set of custom GStreamer plugins in Rust for secure video and audio pipelines — encrypted sources, decryptors, and media processing elements — replacing fragile pieces of the runtime with ones that hold up under production load.
Engineering focus — Runtime stability across GPU rendering, encrypted streams, and real-time playback.
Reliability & compliance
Rust · Binary formats · XML · Web tooling
Qube Cinema · Earlier role
A tamper-resistant logging system in Rust using a binary log format with XML export, for forensic auditing and compliance. Then the tools that make it usable: a browser-based viewer that turns encrypted logs into something a human can read, and a web playback controller for managing and monitoring secure playback remotely.
Engineering focus — Evidence that holds up when somebody asks “are you certain?” in a distinctly legal tone.
Systems architecture
C / C++ · Rust FFI · libasdcp · xmlsec
Qube Cinema · Earlier role
Developed and maintained safe Rust bindings for the C and C++ libraries the industry runs on — libasdcp and xmlsec — so cryptographic and DCP workflows get memory safety without discarding decades of proven domain behavior.
Engineering focus — Reduce the unsafe surface area; keep everything the old code already knows.
Migration · Rust
Rust · C++ · MXF / KLV · SMPTE
Qube Cinema · Internal
Rewrote asdcplib — CineCert’s C++ AS-DCP implementation, the library the industry uses to pack JPEG2000 video, PCM audio, and timed text into MXF containers — as a Rust library, driven by the porting skill I wrote for coding agents. The core MXF reading logic compiled and ran correctly on the first pass. Test coverage and performance tuning are ongoing; it is an internal tool and not open source yet.
Engineering focus — Wrapping a C++ library buys safety at the boundary. Porting it moves the safety inside — which means redesigning ownership, not translating syntax.
Earlier work · C++
C++ · Design patterns · Code review · Security
Wipro · 2021 – 2023
Back-end logic in modern C++ — templates and object-oriented design patterns for modularity and maintainability — plus sustained code review and analysis that found and closed more than 500 vulnerabilities across critical systems.
Engineering focus — The habit of reading code adversarially, which never stopped being useful.
The common thread
Boring is the highest compliment a distributed system can receive. Languages change, platforms change, the fashionable architecture changes twice a year. The work doesn't: define contracts, expose failure, preserve evidence, and make recovery something the system does rather than something a person remembers to do.
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