export const contactInfo = { name: "Brian Sakal", email: "brian@sakal.us", phone: "305-930-0248", website: "https://git.sakal.us/avraham", location: "Passaic, NJ", }; export const mainSkills = [ "Javascript/Typescript", "React", "Next.js", "Node.js", "Express.js", "Docker", "MySQL", "Clickhouse", "DevOps", "Kubernetes", "Linux", "Cloudflare", "Vercel", "S3", ]; export const exposedSkills = [ "PostgreSQL", "Elasticsearch", "Redis", "RethinkDB", "Helm", "nginx", "React Native", "Swagger", ]; export const employment = [ { title: "Lead Developer (Full-Stack)", company: "TorahAnytime.com", location: "Flushing, NY", start: "June 2022", end: "Present", highlights: [ // From old resume: // "Fixed/troubleshooted bugs and added features across multiple legacy codebases", // "Consolidated cloud resources by using Kubernetes.", // "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.", // From Otta resume: "General full-stack work (frontend implementation in Next.js, adding endpoints to api, running database migrations in MySQL, updating Clickhouse with those schema changes, etc.)", "Architected and implemented an in-house transcoding/content-delivery system based on Temporal, Cloudflare, and Backblaze B2 to replace Vimeo; saving $70k/year.", "Setup generic events analytics system in Clickhouse to replace MySQL, Redis, and (eventually) Google Analytics, for faster and more granular analytics over arbitrary events and event payloads; significantly improving query times from minutes to milliseconds", "Legacy code maintenance/incremental refactoring", "Consolidated various async jobs (e.g. notifications, daily/weekly digest, delayed release, etc.) into type-safe Temporal workflows, enhancing developer experience and setting conventions for easy implementation of future workflows", "Designed and deployed a multi-instance tRPC server for type-safe endpoints for the frontend", `Adapted Agile/Scrum to accomodate stakeholder expectations of simultaneous planned and unplanned (i.e. during a Sprint) throughput and turnaround, while keeping longer-term goals predictable.`, "Crafted multi-stage Dockerfiles to leverage layer caching in various projects", "Reduced deployment time from 5 minutes to 15 seconds by implementing locally-runnable deploy scripts, besides setting up Github Actions CI/CD pipelines.", "Developed a custom IVR phone system for dynamically browsing our content.", "Deployed and configured various supporting services in Kubernetes such as Grafana, private Docker & NPM registries.", "Implemented OpenTelemetry tracing visualized in Grafana, resulting in 50% decrease in legacy transcoder troubleshooting time.", "Designed various parameterized Grafana dashboards for at-a-glance analysis of user stats.", "Implemented two integrations: MySQL-Clickhouse sync (using Clickhouse primitives), and MySQL-Salesforce sync (on Temporal).", "Transitioned legacy Cloudflare/nginx TLD site to Vercel, while maintaining custom nginx routes on the TLD and hosting the entire legacy site under a subdomain.", ], }, // { // title: "Assistant Manager", // company: "Sureknit Inc. Property Management", // location: "East Flatbush, NY", // start: "February 2020", // end: "June 2022", // highlights: [ // "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.", // ], // }, // { // title: "Architect Intern", // company: "Sandy Hacohen", // location: "Flushing, NY", // start: "July 2018", // end: "November 2018", // highlights: [ // "Produced architectural drawings of various points-of-view based on given floorplans.", // "Adjusted existing floorplans to spec.", // ], // }, // { // title: "Operations Manager", // company: "Tax Opportunities America", // location: "Flushing, NY", // start: "April 2014", // end: "May 2015", // highlights: [ // "Interfaced with clients, prepared necessary documentation and submitted applications to government programs on behalf of clients.", // "Monitored and accommodated deadlines, missing client data, and when client promised to have the data available", // ], // }, // { // title: "Representative", // company: "Computer-Aided Engineering Network (CAEN) Hotline", // location: "U. of Michigan", // start: "2007", // end: "2009, 2010", // highlights: [ // "Provided first-response assistance to students and collecting pertinent information to arrange for involvement of specialized staff.", // ], // }, ]; export const projectsHobbies = [ { title: "Token-Efficient AI Chat", highlights: ["Vike", "Hono", "React", "Cloudflare Pages"], code: "https://git.sakal.us/avraham/context-efficient-ai", deployment: "https://ai.sakal.us", }, { title: "Calendar Optimizer project", highlights: [ "Stock options research platform", "Preact", "trpc", "Clickhouse", ], code: "https://git.sakal.us/avraham/calendar-optimizer", deployment: "https://calendar-optimizer-frontend.sakal.us", }, { title: "Personal coding blog", highlights: ["Astro", "Cloudflare Pages"], code: "https://git.sakal.us/avraham/blog-astro", deployment: "https://blog.sakal.us", }, { title: "Self-host email for the sakal.us domain", highlights: ["Vultr-Hosted", "Postfix for SMTP", "Dovecot for IMAP"], }, { title: "Self-host a Kubernetes cluster", highlights: [ "k3s", "Private Docker image registry", "cert-manager", "Private coding projects", ], }, { title: "Self-host a Gitea code repository", highlights: ["Deployed within the above Kubernetes cluster."], deployment: "https://git.sakal.us", }, // { // title: "Custom From-Scratch Full-Stack eCommerce website", // highlights: [ // "Previously at piazzaoptical.com", // "mithril.js", // "nginx as reverse proxy and TLS termination", // "lua-http on LuaJIT", // "LMDB", // ], // }, ]; export const education = [ { title: "B.S. in Aerospace Engineering", location: "University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI", start: "Sept. 2006", end: "April 2009, Sept. 2010, April 2011", gpa: "3.185", }, // { // title: "Ph.D. in Rabbinics", // location: "Rabbinical Seminary of America, Flushing, NY", // start: "April 2009", // end: "April 2010, April 2011, January 2020", // }, ];