IBM Cloud VPC IaaSProfession

Designing high-availability backend libraries in Go and managing firmware-adjacent cloud services within the IBM Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) ecosystem.

• > IBM Reservations: Architecting Kubernetes custom controllers and backend logic in Go to manage guaranteed compute capacity and zonal availability.
• > IBM Dedicated Hosts: Leveraging Go concurrency patterns to orchestrate single-tenant isolation at scale for high-performance workloads.
• Containerization: Utilizing Docker for multi-stage builds and image optimization, ensuring secure and minimal runtime environments for Go-based microservices.

Profession

IBM CCA HSM

Developing and optimizing the Common Cryptographic Architecture. Developed high-performance C code for the host library and secure firmware layers.

• Engineered low-level C modules to facilitate secure communication between the host OS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM).
• Optimized cryptographic firmware to ensure high-throughput processing for mission-critical encryption workloads of many financial institutions on IBM mainframes and x86 servers.

> IBM CCA HSM

Wedding Automation: Print-Letters Automation

A cost-effective solution for mass physical mailings. This project automates the extraction of guest names and addresses from Google Docs to generate print-ready letters.

• Use Case: Mass wedding invite distribution.
• Result: Time savings of 96.341%, cost savings of 87.129%.
• Stack: Python / Google Docs API integration.

Hardware

Electronic Tic-Tac-Toe

A deep dive into micro-electronics using a TI MSP430 Launchpad. Built a fully functional game from scratch on breadboards, managing the logic entirely in C.

• Hardware: Shift registers, LED drivers, and birds nest of physical layer wiring.
• Complexity: Managed switch debouncing and state logic with 256 bytes of RAM.

> Watch the demo video [YouTube]