Proving Kafka Pipelines with the Confluent CLI: Publish and Subscribe
Description: Validate Kafka pipelines with console producer and consumer tools before writing application code.
- kafka
- confluent
- streaming
- cli
I architect and build data platforms and AI products businesses depend on:
- data pipelines processing over 5B+ records daily
- analytics & AI dashboards that reduce reporting latency by 60%
- operations automated end to end using autonomous workflows, cutting execution time by half
real-time / batch pipelines - analytics - streaming - applied AI - data migration - warehousing - agentic workflows
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Weekly Rental Price Retraining: MLflow, W&B, and Hydra Pipeline
Description: Automated weekly rental price retraining with MLflow orchestration, W&B artifact tracking, and Hydra configs.
- mlflow
- wandb
- mlops
- python
Big data jobs: Spark ETL Design on AWS EMR
Description: Spark ETL on EMR in practice — S3 inputs, star-schema outputs, and deploy paths via console, CLI, and Boto3.
- spark
- aws
- emr
- data-engineering
Latest work and insights
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2026-08-31
Building a data-intensive location platform with gRPC ingest, Kafka, Flask/REST, and Kubernetes on Vagrant VM
High-volume geodata ingest with gRPC and Kafka, REST reads via Flask, PostGIS proximity search, and Kubernetes on Vagrant.
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Building a data-intensive location platform with gRPC ingest, Kafka, Flask/REST, and Kubernetes on Vagrant VM
High-volume geodata ingest with gRPC and Kafka, REST reads via Flask, PostGIS proximity search, and Kubernetes on Vagrant.
gRPCKafkaKubernetesRESTVagrant VM
blog
2026-07-05
Smolagents framework: Building Multi-Agents, Tools, and Memory for Order Processing
smolagents multi-agent walkthrough — ToolCallingAgent specialists, tool trust boundaries, structured JSON handoffs, and sql db storage on a paper supply order pipeline
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Smolagents framework: Building Multi-Agents, Tools, and Memory for Order Processing
smolagents multi-agent walkthrough — ToolCallingAgent specialists, tool trust boundaries, structured JSON handoffs, and sql db storage on a paper supply order pipeline
agentstoolssmolagentsmemory
project
2026-06-27
Multi-agent system for customer service and sales operations
Orchestrating multiple agents to complete tasks involving handling customer inquiries, checking inventory status, providing accurate quotations, and completing transactions seamlessly
Viewai-orchestrationLLMsmolagentstool-calling
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View2026-06-27
Multi-agent system for customer service and sales operations
Orchestrating multiple agents to complete tasks involving handling customer inquiries, checking inventory status, providing accurate quotations, and completing transactions seamlessly
ai-orchestrationLLMsmolagentstool-calling
project
2026-05-24
A Snowflake Warehouse for Customer Reviews and Climate Analytics
Modeled Yelp reviews and GHCN-D climate data in a layered Snowflake warehouse from staging through ODS to star schema.
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A Snowflake Warehouse for Customer Reviews and Climate Analytics
Modeled Yelp reviews and GHCN-D climate data in a layered Snowflake warehouse from staging through ODS to star schema.
snowflakedata-warehousesqlanalytics
Specialization
Data Platforms (Kafka, Spark, Streaming)
Cloud Architecture (AWS, GCP, scalable systems)
AI Systems (RAG, Agents, LLM workflows)
Performance Engineering (low latency systems)
Impact
5B+ rows processed daily
50% faster data processing
5 days → 13 min ML retraining
98% NLP insight accuracy
70% better data accessibility
85% fewer pipeline breakages
Tech Stack
