Cutting Telemetry Latency by 83%: What Actually Worked
·6 min read
A look at the IPC optimization, bulk API batching, and caching strategies that reduced our end-to-end telemetry latency from 30 minutes to under 5.
From Physics to Systems Software: Why the Dual Degree Paid Off
·5 min read
A physics degree teaches you to think about systems at the right level of abstraction. That turns out to be exactly what systems programming requires.
Building BugInsights: How We Won a 30-Team Hackathon with HDBSCAN
·7 min read
When thousands of bug reports pile up, the patterns get buried. Here is how we used LLM embeddings and density-based clustering to surface them automatically.
YANG, OpenConfig, and the Quiet Revolution in Network Automation
·5 min read
For decades, network configuration meant vendor-specific CLIs and fragile screen-scraping. YANG data models changed that — and I spent two years building inside that change.