Senior Full-Stack Developer,TorahAnytime.com, Flushing, NY
June 2022–Present
Transitioned a legacy Cloudflare/nginx TLD site to Vercel,
while maintaining custom nginx routes on the TLD, plus the
entire legacy site under a subdomain.
Reduced time-to-deployment from 5 minutes to 15 seconds with
locally-runnable deploy scripts; besides setting up
Drone/Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.
Architected custom analytics backend w/ Clickhouse. Reduced
query times from minutes to milliseconds.
Implemented a custom IVR phone system to dynamically browse
content.
Deployed and configured various supporting/ancillary
services in Kubernetes, including Gitlab, private Docker &
NPM registries.
Implemented OpenTelemetry tracing visualized in Grafana,
decreasing transcoder troubleshooting by 50%.
Implemented various asynchronous workflows, including a new
video transcoder, in Temporal; thus completely severing our
dependence on Vimeo, reducing costs by $40k/year.
Assistant Manager,Sureknit Inc. Property Management, East Flatbush, NY
February 2020–June 2022
Kept accurate records of tenant rent payments.
Balanced and monitored bank accounts for all subsidiary
companies.
Furnished necessary documentation for various real estate
operations, such as new leases, property sales, etc.
Self-host email for the sakal.us domain
Vultr-Hosted
Postfix for SMTP
Dovecot for IMAP
Self-host a Kubernetes cluster
k3s
Private Docker image registry
cert-manager
Private coding projects
Self-host a Gitea code repositoryDeployed within the above Kubernetes cluster. Available at
https://git.sakal.us