Career Highlights

Case Studies

Projects that moved the needle

The stories behind the work—technical challenges, ownership journeys, and the impact that resulted. These aren't just projects; they're problems I lived with for years.

🏆 Flagship Project

Infrastructure · 2020-Present · 4+ Years

Leviathan: Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing

The first open-source HiL testing system for IoT. Automated embedded OS testing on physical devices at scale.

6 weeks → 3 hrs

Release Cycle

2000+

Weekly Tests

200+

Device Types

$250K

Yearly Savings

The Story

The crisis: In my 3rd month at Balena, we received a silent deadline from the CEO—give up on hardware testing or start fresh. The senior developer had just left. The project was in shambles: confused product decisions, undocumented code, mountains of technical debt.

What I did: I took ownership of everything—software, hardware, strategy, planning, support, CI/CD, reliability, tests, and documentation. Ran experiments, talked to customers, consulted ex-employees, researched market demands. Documented it all, crafted a new MVP spec, and convinced management to build Autokit—a completely off-the-shelf test jig replacing expensive proprietary hardware.

The result: 10 months later, we released support for Raspberry Pi 3. Then the entire Pi family. The team could now run automated tests for each PR. What took weeks of manual testing became hours of automated validation.

Technical Challenges Conquered

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Hardware Design: Built Autokit—an open-source HiL testing device that can power on, flash, and execute commands on embedded devices

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Device Firmware: First time writing firmware to interact with Autokit's components

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Test Framework: Built queue management and worker discovery across distributed locations

📖 Read the Full Story GitHub Chip Shortage Story

DevOps · 2024 · 6 Months

Jenkins to GitHub Actions Migration

Spearheaded the migration of Balena's entire balenaOS build-test-deploy CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. Reduced Hetzner costs significantly while improving pipeline reliability and easing engineering pain points across the organization.

100+

Pipelines Migrated

40%

Cost Reduction

Faster Builds

📖 Read the Migration Story

Developer Education · 2022-Present

Documentation Leadership & DocuBuilder

Took ownership of Balena's documentation landscape when there was no docs team. Built DocuBuilder—a framework powering 30+ documentation sites with zero-config Docusaurus deployments. Championed Documentation Driven Development, ran the company's first docs sprint, and saved $18K/year by migrating off Netlify/Heroku.

30+

Sites Powered

$18K

Yearly Savings

400+

Issues Resolved

DocuBuilder on GitHub Docs Sprint Story

📚 Earlier Career Highlights (2016-2021)

Google Summer of Code (2018-2019)

Two consecutive years as a GSoC student with Sugar Labs, then continuing as a mentor:

2018: Built Sugar Port—migration tool for educational software
2019: Continued development and expanded tooling
2018-2019: Mentored 300+ pre-university students through Google Code-in

View GSoC certificates →

HackMIT 2018

Selected among 1000+ applicants to attend MIT's premier hackathon. The experience led me to create the Abroad Opportunities Fund Scholarship at my alma mater—ensuring future students wouldn't face the same funding barriers.

Community Founding: ALiAS (2016)

Founded ALiAS (Amity Linux Assistance Sapience)—an independent open-source college community that grew from a classroom to hundreds of students across campuses. Started the ALiAS AMA program that helped 20+ students get selected in GSoC.

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