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Platform & open-source work (Kafka, MCP, connectors, demos) first; personal apps and lighter side tools below.

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Kafka, MCP, connectors, streaming demos, and open-source tooling.

Led Apicurio Registry V2→V3 for Event Streams; upstream HTTP MCP + OAuth forwarding is an open PR under review.

Transform any REST API into an MCP server — connectors that make existing APIs usable by LLM tools.

Expose Kafka cluster operations as LLM-accessible tools via the Model Context Protocol.

Shrink Kafka integer payloads with a compact encoding library for Java/Kafka apps.

Production-ready Kafka Connect template with Testcontainers integration tests.

A real-time multiplayer tap battle that turns every click into a Kafka event you can inspect.

Kafka Connect source that turns Server-Sent Events streams into Kafka topics — used in Event Streams demos.

Turn an existing Django REST Framework project into MCP tools for AI assistants in minutes.

Turn GitHub Actions + Pages into a free scrape-and-serve data API — template and weather example.

Minimal Server-Sent Events demo — a live CPU/RAM dashboard with almost no client code.

Side-by-side Flask apps showing durable execution with Restate versus plain request handlers.

Compare Celery-style async tasks in Django with Restate durable execution on the same workload.

Smaller apps and side tools — useful, personal, not the hiring brief.

Convert Hugo-friendly Markdown into Medium-ready posts with a live preview and one-click copy.

Real-time iceberg monitoring with NASA data, automated pipelines, and GitHub as a data platform.

Aesthetic challenge-grid habit tracker hosted on GitHub Pages.

Home-screen PWA for nursing/feeding logs, built and shipped on GitHub Pages.