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Systems with architectural weight.

This page no longer reads like a startup app gallery. It leads with production-scale payment systems, introduces three hardware-backed hero builds, and archives work that does not strengthen the principal systems and AI architecture narrative.

production proof

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hero builds queued

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commodity demos archived

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Featured systems

PRODUCTIONEnterprise production system

The Home Depot

Payment Card Tender System

Contributed to the tender path that carries credit, debit, and gift card traffic across a nationwide store footprint and ecommerce, with observability and migration work on the critical path.

Constraint

Peak retail traffic and a zero-downtime mandate leave no room for opaque dependencies, weak telemetry, or brittle release procedures.

Trade-off

Favor observability-first design and buffered distributed flows over simpler synchronous coupling, even when that increases platform complexity up front.

Decision

Worked within a Go and GKE payment environment to improve telemetry, support zero-downtime tender migrations, and make high-risk paths visible during production incidents.

Outcome

Helped keep a platinum-tier payments domain measurable under load, with leadership-facing observability and sub-50ms p99 performance on critical paths.

GoGKECockroachDBRedisOpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafana
proprietary systemArchitecture case study
BUILDING NOWHero build | edge observability

Independent build

Magic Jungle Telemetry Mesh

ESP32 environmental nodes feeding a Raspberry Pi 5 gateway, local vision workloads, and a public GCP analytics board for backyard growth telemetry.

Constraint

Owning sensors is not the same as operating a system. The goal is a resilient edge network with useful telemetry, not a pile of disconnected boards.

Trade-off

Keep sensing, buffering, and first-pass inference local for latency and resilience; ship curated events and long-horizon aggregates to GCP for analytics and a public dashboard.

Decision

Use ESP32 nodes for capture, MQTT into a Pi 5 gateway for edge rules and Frigate, then normalize events in Cloud Run and persist time-series analytics in BigQuery.

Outcome

Turns a backyard project into proof of silicon-to-satellite thinking: hardware, enclosures, observability, edge AI, and cloud analytics in one system.

ESP32Raspberry Pi 5MQTTFrigateCloud RunBigQueryGrafanaTerraform

Next milestone

Bring the first outdoor node online and publish a live telemetry board.

BUILDING NOWHero build | self-healing edge ops

Independent build

Edge Fleet Control Plane

A control plane for Pi 5 and ESP32 hardware that manages heartbeats, signed OTA rollouts, incident timelines, and public health telemetry from one operator surface.

Constraint

A shelf of boards is inventory, not architecture. The missing piece is coordinated fleet health, rollout discipline, and observable failure handling.

Trade-off

Use a lightweight edge gateway and event bus instead of heavyweight cluster tooling so the system stays cheap, understandable, and deployable on real hobby hardware.

Decision

Run fleet coordination and local buffering on the Pi 5, push signed rollout metadata and incident state through Cloud Run APIs, and store historical reliability signals in BigQuery.

Outcome

Demonstrates that the same operational patterns used in enterprise systems can govern small edge fleets with real SLOs, rollback paths, and health visibility.

Raspberry Pi 5ESP32TypeScriptCloud RunBigQueryOpenTelemetryTerraform

Next milestone

Stand up signed firmware manifests and device heartbeat reporting.

BUILDING NOWHero build | machine vision + manufacturing

Independent build

Autonomous Print Cell

A Bambu P1S production cell with ESP32 power and environmental sensing, Pi 5 vision analysis, and cloud-side quality analytics for failed-print detection.

Constraint

A printer is a tool. A print cell becomes a systems project only when failures, energy use, and quality signals are captured and acted on automatically.

Trade-off

Run vision and anomaly checks locally so detection remains fast and inexpensive; send structured events to GCP for quality trends, auditability, and remote monitoring.

Decision

Pair the printer with ESP32 telemetry, local camera analysis on the Pi 5, and a Cloud Run ingestion pipeline that records print events, defects, and energy data into BigQuery.

Outcome

Creates a hardware-backed AI operations case study that blends manufacturing telemetry, edge inference, and cloud analytics without becoming another generic web app.

Bambu P1SESP32Raspberry Pi 5FrigateCloud RunBigQueryLooker Studio

Next milestone

Instrument the printer job stream and calibrate local failed-print detection.

Supporting systems

LIVELive supporting system

gimenez.dev Operator Console

The portfolio itself as a live operator surface: recruiter-facing RAG, admin telemetry, trace-linked logs, and a war room that documents how the system behaves in production.

Next.js 16TypeScriptCloud RunTerraformCloud LoggingRAG

Archived from headline rotation

Churnistic

Automated churn modeling and retraining pipeline built before the portfolio shifted toward edge systems and infrastructure proof.

Why archived

Strong automation work, but it does not reinforce the new silicon-to-satellite narrative.

TypeScriptTensorFlow.jsFirebase FunctionsReact
Source

Real-Time Trading Engine

A streaming app with WebSockets and gRPC that reads as a capable engineering exercise but not a differentiated systems case study.

Why archived

The architecture is solid, but it looks like a product demo instead of a systems architecture headline.

GoWebSocketsgRPCPostgreSQLReact
Source