Selected work
My work spans remote agents, cloud services, observability, update and recovery infrastructure, and high-reliability media software.
Environment
Edge ↔ Cloud
Primary constraint
Failure is normal
Method
Observe · Verify · Recover
Distributed systems · Current
Modernizing a long-lived remote agent into Go, with durable local queues, cloud command handling, heartbeats, scheduling, and behavior-preserving migration from a legacy runtime.
Engineering focus: Delivery semantics, restart safety, and clear ownership across concurrent workers.
Platform engineering · Current
Designing a self-update architecture for remotely deployed software: verified artifacts, A/B installations, atomic activation, candidate probation, crash-loop detection, and automatic rollback.
Engineering focus: The known-good version remains recoverable throughout the entire transaction.
Cloud & reliability · Current
Instrumenting agent workflows across callbacks, schedules, persistent queues, and cloud commands using traces, structured logs, and metrics—then validating them on real virtual machines.
Engineering focus: Trace context follows work across process, persistence, and network boundaries.
Media systems · Production
Building DCI/SMPTE-compliant playback infrastructure with secure media processing, custom pipeline components, and GPU-accelerated rendering for cinema environments.
Engineering focus: Predictable playback where a software failure becomes a dark screen for an audience.
Reliability & compliance · Production
Designed tamper-resistant playback records and human-readable diagnostic tooling for forensic investigation, operational support, and cinema compliance workflows.
Engineering focus: Operational evidence must remain trustworthy even when something goes wrong.
Systems architecture · Production
Creating safer language boundaries around mature C and C++ cinema libraries, while exploring repeatable workflows for behavior-preserving modernization.
Engineering focus: Reduce unsafe surface area without discarding proven domain behavior.
The common thread
Languages and platforms change. The work remains: define contracts, expose failure, preserve evidence, and make recovery explicit.
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