Engineering Work & Case Studies

Selected software systems, enterprise initiatives, and independent products that illustrate my approach to architecture, technical problem-solving, and engineering execution.

Featured Case Studies

Morningstar · Delivered

Investment Platform Cloud Modernization

Led the modernization of investment management workloads from legacy infrastructure to AWS, using cloud-native services and infrastructure automation to improve deployment efficiency and reduce operating costs.

Cost-aware cloud architecture at platform scope — $1M annual savings with measurable deployment improvements, not lift-and-shift for its own sake.

AWS.NET CoreTerraformECS
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Independent · Built

.NET Engineering Agent

Built a repository-aware AI agent that can inspect .NET projects, plan and implement changes, execute builds and tests, and review code modifications.

Demonstrates controlled tool execution, agent orchestration, and automated engineering validation.

C#.NET 10ASP.NET CoreAmazon Bedrock
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Independent · Built

Blanket Finance

An independently developed financial technology product for exploring Indian equities, mutual funds, market data, portfolio research, and AI-assisted financial analysis.

End-to-end fintech platform engineering — .NET backend, cloud architecture, market data, and product ownership.

AWS.NETPostgreSQLReact
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Morningstar · Delivered

TAMP Account Onboarding Automation

Automated TAMP account onboarding orchestration — multi-step workflow covering model mapping, SMA/UMA setup, fees, restrictions, and vendor API integration.

Operational automation with measurable hour savings in a regulated-adjacent financial technology environment.

.NET CorePostgreSQLAWS LambdaSQS
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Applied AI

Blanket AI

Built

LLM-powered investing assistant with stock and fund context, rate limiting, and multi-turn research sessions.

Practical LLM product integration inside a fintech product — grounded answers, not a demo chatbot.

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Financial Technology

Blanket Chakra Rating Engine

Built

Chakra rating algorithm that powered the screener, dashboards, and investing ideas on Blanket Finance.

Finance domain depth applied to product differentiation — explainable ratings, not black-box scores.

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Blanket Quant Platform

In progress

Separate .NET 8 CLI codebase for US equity data ingestion, signal generation, backtesting, Monte Carlo, and portfolio risk analytics.

Quantitative R&D separated from consumer product — systematic strategy evaluation infrastructure.

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Vendor API Integration

Delivered

System-to-system API integration automating account-to-user assignment between Morningstar's platform and a third-party financial vendor.

High-value integration engineering — $300K annual savings from removing repetitive operational work.

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Vendor Payment Audit & Recovery

Delivered

Full product lifecycle on ASP.NET MVC + Web API platform detecting vendor payment errors and supporting audit/recovery workflows for Walmart.

Early finance-minded engineering — software where dollars recovered and payment accuracy are the product outcome.

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Cloud & Distributed Systems

Fifth Third Bank — Hybrid Cloud Migration

Delivered

First Kin + Carta engagement — hybrid migration of commercial banking applications to AWS with DDD microservices, Terraform, and OAuth/JWT auth.

Enterprise cloud migration under regulatory-adjacent constraints — consulting delivery with workshops plus implementation.

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ElasticSearch Financial Data Index

Delivered

ElasticSearch index with DynamoDB Streams pipeline and .NET Core API for near-real-time portfolio and account queries.

Data pipeline engineering for query performance at scale — from change capture through search index to consumer API.

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MyQ Marketing Cohort Platform

Internal

Scheduled Kubernetes workload that aggregates user data across databases and APIs, materializes cohort membership in Couchbase, and exposes it through REST APIs for targeted in-app experiences.

Batch data platform work inside a consumer IoT product — reliable scheduled jobs, cross-store consistency, and API contracts product teams depend on for personalization.

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Magellan Midstream — Scheduling APIs

Delivered

REST scheduling APIs for oil tanker pickup and drop operations — second Kin + Carta engagement after Fifth Third.

Same engineering toolkit applied across domains — energy logistics after commercial banking.

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Earlier work

Political Contribution Data Mining

Loyola University Chicago · Apr 2015

Graduate coursework project applying data mining techniques to political contribution records — donor patterns, geographic distribution, and temporal trends.

PBX Simulation with Asterisk

Loyola University Chicago · Dec 2014

Built a functional PBX simulation using Asterisk demonstrating call routing, extensions, voicemail, and trunk configuration.

Hotel Management System

Gogte Institute of Technology · Feb – Apr 2014

Undergraduate web application for room bookings, guest check-in/check-out, billing, and room availability management.

Online Stamp Collection

Gogte Institute of Technology · Apr – May 2012

Web application for cataloging stamps with metadata (country, year, denomination, condition) and search capabilities.

Car Robot

Gogte Institute of Technology · Nov – Dec 2009

Small car robot integrating mechanical components with basic control logic — bridging software and hardware in a physical system.

RFID Door Lock

Personal Project · Sep 2016 – Dec 2017

Personal hobby project — RFID-controlled door lock with Arduino, authorized tag registration, and servo/solenoid lock actuation.