Security
Threat and privacy risk folded into the design itself, not bolted on after, from hardened containers to access and data-protection boundaries.
evidenced in: 2 case studies · 1 companies
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Moving customer reporting off the transactional database
Customer-facing indicators were timing out as analytical queries competed with live application traffic. I authored the architecture decision to separate the workloads, revised it to account for warehouse latency, and helped another engineer establish the service foundation. Rollout is in progress; end-state latency has not been measured.
Making container and dependency hardening a standing practice, not an audit response
Turned container and dependency hardening into a standing quarterly practice across two backend services over four quarters, covering non-root runtimes, 135 CVEs flagged and all 7 rated critical remediated in the first pass, then a base-image and dependency overhaul that took the audit from 69 findings to 16, unfixable OS CVEs from 160 to 0, and the final image from 1.64 GB to 463 MB, with exploitability-based accepted risk documented rather than version numbers chased, and one self-inflicted rollout regression root-caused and fixed the same day.
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