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7 cases · 4 companies · 2 projects of my own

Problems I solved and shipped.

Every project started as unfamiliar territory. These are the systems, with their measured numbers, not adjectives.

Measured incremental revenue: ~$576K/yr
External API cost cut: $15K/day to $40/mo
Shipping to production: 8+ years

Featured case · Eventbrite · 2024

Eventbrite: Distributed Indexing Pipelines That Drove ~$576K/yr Revenue

As a Senior Software Engineer at Eventbrite, I designed distributed indexing and sitemap pipelines using Airflow, dbt, and Snowflake that drove ~15% organic impression growth and ~$576K/yr in incremental revenue through controlled experimentation.

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I research it with you and ship the first version.

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01Arepa.AI: Agentic AI Platform for Spanish-Speaking SMBsArepa.AI · Founder & AI EngineerLangGraphRAGPython2026

02Manito Car Wash: Practical AI for a Family Car Wash in VenezuelaIndependent Project · AI EngineerAI for SMBComputer VisionFull-Stack2025

03Eventbrite: How I Cut External API Costs from $15K/Day to $40/MonthEventbrite · Senior Software EngineerCachingCost OptimizationDistributed Systems2025

04celestino.ai: A Voice Agent That Speaks for MePersonal Project · Founder & EngineerLiveKitWebRTCAI SDK2025

05Eventbrite: Distributed Indexing Pipelines That Drove ~$576K/yr RevenueEventbrite · Senior Software EngineerSEOAirflowdbt2024

06FlowWest: Modernizing 30 Years of dBase III into Cloud InfrastructureFlowWest · Senior Software EngineerPostgreSQLGCPETL2022

07ESLWorks: NLP Assessment & Subscription Platform from ZeroESLWorks · Software EngineerNLPFull-StackEdTech2020

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