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[02_PROJECTS]CURATED CASE STUDIES & ARCHITECTURE SCHEMATICS

No generic repo dumps. Real architectural problem solving & systems engineering.

TOTAL_FILES: 8

[HARDWARE]YEAR: 2022 // ROLE: Hardware Designer & Firmware Developer

DomeDrum: Open Source Hardware MIDI Controller

Custom physical electronic musical instrument and MIDI drum controller with pressure-sensitive capacitive sensor domes.

> UX/UI CRAFT:Tactile hemispherical silicon domes offering expressive velocity and aftertouch response unavailable on traditional flat drum pads.

> ARCHITECTURE:Sub-2ms interrupt-driven sensor scanning matrix preventing crosstalk and transmitting low-jitter MIDI over USB.

Scan Latency< 1.8ms

Form FactorErgonomic Dome Cluster

Physical ComputingEmbedded CMIDI ProtocolCAD/3D PrintingCapacitive SensorsTeensy/Arduino

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[PROTOTYPE]YEAR: 2021 // ROLE: Industrial & Interface Designer

E-CUBE: Gel Electrophoresis Laboratory Instrument

Scientific biotechnology laboratory device casing and analogue/digital interface designed for DNA analysis and education.

> UX/UI CRAFT:Interlocking safety lid preventing electrical shock during high-voltage buffer chamber operation with clear visual status LED halo.

> ARCHITECTURE:Compact modular chamber design optimizing blue-light transillumination for real-time DNA band observation.

SafetyDual Interlock

DomainLife Sciences

BiotechnologyIndustrial DesignHardware PrototypingCADElectrical SafetyErgonomics

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[SOFTWARE]YEAR: 2023 // ROLE: Frontend Architect & Senior Consultant

Enginsight: SIEM & Infrastructure Security Platform

Modular Single Page Application architecture and enterprise interface redesign for cybersecurity SIEM & autonomous penetration testing.

> UX/UI CRAFT:Unified security operational center (SOC) triage dashboard reducing incident response time for IT security leads.

> ARCHITECTURE:Modular micro-frontend architecture enabling independent team deployments and virtualized rendering of 50k+ server event streams.

Event Scale100k+ events/sec

Client Test Suite100% Cypress Coverage

TypeScriptWebpackCypressModular SPACybersecuritySIEM ArchitectureData Grid Virtualization

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[HARDWARE]YEAR: 2023 // ROLE: Interaction Designer & UI Consultant

Fritzing: Hardware Made Simple

Interaction redesign for the globally recognized open-source electronics EDA suite, Fritzing 2.0 UX concept, and Parts Editor.

> UX/UI CRAFT:Reimagined component breadboard canvas with real-time wire auto-routing and magnetic pin snapping for electronics educators.

> ARCHITECTURE:Architectural component model separating schematic logical pins from physical PCB footprints and breadboard visuals.

UsersMillions worldwide

DomainOpen Source EDA

Interaction DesignEDA SoftwareParts EditorPCB FootprintsC++ / Qt ConceptsFigma Design System

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[SOFTWARE]YEAR: 2024 // ROLE: Creator & Maintainer

Google Sheet Translations (@el-j/google-sheet-translations)

Open Source i18n synchronization engine and GitHub Action linking Google Sheets directly with static site codebases.

> UX/UI CRAFT:Zero-friction workflow empowering non-technical translators to edit spreadsheet rows with live automated validation.

> ARCHITECTURE:Bidirectional sync pipeline generating typed JSON/TypeScript locale dictionaries with automated missing key detection.

NPM Package@el-j/google-sheet-translations

CI PipelineAutomated Sync

Sync Time< 2.5s

TypeScriptNode.jsGoogle Sheets APIGitHub ActionsNPMViteJSON Schema

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[EXHIBITION]YEAR: 2020 // ROLE: Interactive Engineer & Interface Designer

KTM Motohall: Exhibition Sensor Monitors & Installations

Interactive sensor monitoring stations and visitor engagement displays for the KTM Motohall museum in Mattighofen.

> UX/UI CRAFT:Immersive visitor telemetry display visualizing motorcycle acceleration forces, lean angles, and engine sensor metrics.

> ARCHITECTURE:Ruggedized embedded sensor telemetry nodes networked via industrial bus protocols to central multimedia display servers.

Museum Visitors200k+ annual

ReliabilityContinuous 365-day operation

IoT SensorsPhysical ComputingExhibition DesignInteractive DisplaysIndustrial AutomationMicrocontrollers

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[HARDWARE]YEAR: 2024 // ROLE: Lead UI/UX & Fullstack Consultant

REX-AT: Industrial Machinery Web-UIs & Shopfloor Telemetry

Hardware Web-UIs for real industry machines, production line time-tracking, and high-reliability machine controls.

> UX/UI CRAFT:High-contrast tactile touch UI designed for machine operators wearing protective gloves in noisy factory environments.

> ARCHITECTURE:Resilient WebSocket streaming layer with local-first offline buffers ensuring zero control command loss during factory network hiccups.

Uptime99.99% Shopfloor

Latency< 12ms WebSocket

EnvironmentFactory Floor

Industrial Web-UITypeScriptSCADA IntegrationVueTailwindEmbedded LinuxWebSockets

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[SOFTWARE]YEAR: 2025 // ROLE: Architect & Core Developer

RunZero: Dual-Engine Autoscaling Runner Fleet

Autoscaling self-hosted GitHub Actions runner fleet with intelligent hybrid auto-routing between Docker containers and OrbStack VMs.

> UX/UI CRAFT:Unified real-time fleet control console with live telemetry graphs, job latency metrics, and instant manual override dials.

> ARCHITECTURE:Hybrid engine auto-routing directing containerized tasks to Docker and DIND/systemd-heavy jobs to isolated OrbStack micro-VMs.

CI SpeedupUp to 8x faster

Cache Hit94.2% Proxy Hit

Orchestrationsystemd daemons

DockerOrbStackGitHub ActionsLinuxsystemdVerdaccioAthensAstroTypeScript

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