Full Stack Cloud Expert

Spearheaded full-stack development and cloud architecture for a specialized AI search platform.

• ✦Ingested 20M+ molecules (~30GB) into GCS and Vertex AI Search, enabling massive-scale semantic RAG-based search.
• ✦Served as the sole full-stack engineer in an 11-person team, taking complete end-to-end ownership of the web app, infrastructure, and databases.
• ✦Built a highly interactive Gemini-style search app (Next.js + FastAPI) featuring SSE for real-time streaming responses and hand-drawn structure inputs.

Architected event-driven microservices and led cost-saving cloud infrastructure redesigns.

• ✦Built a scalable mentorship platform serving over 2 million students, and optimized calendar search using OpenSearch to reduce search latency by 30%.
• ✦Designed a real-time ETL pipeline extracting 20GB of data daily, and built high-throughput worker-thread services pushing ~3k events/sec.
• ✦Redesigned cloud infrastructure and refined log retention policies, successfully decreasing overall cloud costs by 50%.
• ✦Migrated critical user-facing web pages from CSR to SSR, aggressively improving Web Vitals and achieving an LCP of under 1.5 seconds.
• ✦Engineered robust event-driven architectures and full CI/CD pipelines.

Automated core infrastructure and securely managed deployment pipelines.

• ✦Automated cloud infrastructure provisioning from scratch using AWS CloudFormation templates.
• ✦Configured robust AWS VPC setups to strictly secure cloud networking via public/private subnets.
• ✦Managed and tuned on-premises PostgreSQL databases, establishing high-availability read replicas.