resume/database/resume.ts

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: "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. Available at https://git.sakal.us",
    ],
  },
  {
    title: "Personal coding blog",
    highlights: ["Astro", "Cloudflare Pages", "https://blog.sakal.us"],
  },
  {
    title: "Calendar Optimizer project",
    highlights: [
      "Stock options research platform",
      "Preact",
      "trpc",
      "Clickhouse",
      "https://calendar-optimizer-frontend.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",
  // },
];