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Case Studies

Real projects. Real scale. Real results.

6 Months
22 Apps Migrated
70-80% Cost Reduction

FlashAcademy: From Ransomware to Modern Platform

6-month infrastructure rescue

After a security breach and a failed engagement with a "certified AWS partner," I rebuilt FlashAcademy's entire infrastructure from the ground up. Consolidated EC2, Amplify, Lambda, and ECS into a single EKS platform with GitOps, Pod Identity, and automated everything.

AWS EKS
Crisis Response
GitOps
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7 Days
30 Min Onboarding
12 Services

FlashAcademy DevEnv: Kubernetes-Native Local Development

7-day developer experience transformation

Rebuilt a fragile Docker Compose setup into a Kubernetes-native local environment that mirrors production. Onboarding went from days to 30 minutes. The Unity team — who had never gotten the old setup working — were finally able to develop locally.

Developer Experience
Kubernetes
Tilt
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4.3B Addresses
7 Full Scans
$2,000 Total Cost

Nightcrawler: Mapping the Entire Internet

Internet-scale security research

Built a distributed reconnaissance platform that scanned all 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses. Seven times. Solved data processing challenges that broke SQL databases and graph databases before finding the right architecture with Hadoop and Elasticsearch.

Distributed Systems
Big Data
Security
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Coming Soon

Recursion Pharmaceuticals:GitOps at Supercomputer Scale — Kubernetes on NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs

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