Built first TypeScript compiler plugin — validates custom decorators at compile time

Implemented RAG pipeline with LangChain and Pinecone — first real embedding search working

Passed Google L5 interview after 3 months of targeted preparation

Completed Advent of Code 2024 Day 18 — shortest path in a corrupted memory grid

First code review as senior — gave feedback on a junior's auth implementation

Refactored authentication system to eliminate 3,200 lines of duplicate session handling

Completed Stanford's CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition

Deployed CLI agent that writes commit messages from git diff using GPT-4

Refactored authentication system to eliminate 3,200 lines of duplicate session handling

Completed first pull request to open source project, merged after 2 rounds of review

First code review as senior — gave feedback on a junior's auth implementation

Refactored authentication system to eliminate 3,200 lines of duplicate session handling

Shipped observability stack: OpenTelemetry + Jaeger + Grafana for our microservices

Implemented RAG pipeline with LangChain and Pinecone — first real embedding search working

Completed Advent of Code 2024 Day 18 — shortest path in a corrupted memory grid

First code review as senior — gave feedback on a junior's auth implementation

Contributed CUDA kernel optimization reducing inference latency by 34%

Completed Stanford's CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition