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## **Risk, Controls, and Conduct**
### **Accomplishments**
**1. Maintained Full Compliance with Corporate Policies and Standards**
Consistently adhered to all corporate security, governance, and personnel policies throughout the year. Demonstrated commitment to regulatory compliance through proactive identification and resolution of Atlas 2 integration gaps with JPM regulatory and compliance systems (Harmony/PTX, SEAL, AppLeMan, PlanEx).
**2. Reduced "Hit by Bus" Risk Through Systematic Knowledge Sharing**
Mitigated key person risk by actively transferring specialized knowledge through design reviews and one-on-one consultations with DPI team and application teams across Digital. Developed comprehensive patterns and blueprints now used as BAU by dozens of application teams, reducing dependency on individual expertise for routine architectural decisions.
## **Teamwork and Leadership**
### **Accomplishments**
**1. Cross-Organizational Collaboration on Critical Atlas 2 Integration Challenges**
Collaboration across multiple organizations including CCB Architecture, Corp LoB tool teams, and regulatory/compliance groups to identify and resolve Atlas 2 integration gaps. Partnered effectively with Carrie Rittenhouse and tool-specific teams to drive consensus on solutions, demonstrating ability to lead complex initiatives across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
**2. Mentored DPI Team Technical Growth Through Hands-On Guidance**
Invested significant effort in developing DPI team capabilities, providing detailed guidance on challenging technical projects including custom AMI creation, sophisticated Route 53 configurations, and composable infrastructure components. Guided team through complex EaC feature requirements definition, building their confidence and ability to independently tackle sophisticated implementations.
**1. Enabled DPI Team Growth Through Challenging Technical Projects**
Provided opportunities for the DPI team to expand capabilities across complex technical domains including custom AMI creation, sophisticated Route 53 configurations, and composable infrastructure components. Guided their deep skill development in EaC and mentored them in defining detailed feature requirements for EaC enhancements. This capability building positions the team to independently handle increasingly sophisticated implementations.
**2. Prevented Multi-Month Delays for Future Atlas 2 Adopters Across CCB**
Through proactive discovery of critical gaps in Atlas 2 regulatory and compliance integrations, prevented significant implementation struggles that would have caused delays of multiple months for all future CCB applications adopting Atlas 2. This trail-blazing effort will directly benefit dozens of application teams as they transition to the new platform.
**3. Delivered Rapid, Actionable Guidance to Dozens of Application Teams**
## **Business Results**
### **Accomplishments**
**1. Delivered $19M in AWS Cost Savings Through Strategic Technical Direction (Jan-May 2025)**
Provided strategic direction and detailed implementation guidance that enabled collaborative teams across Digital to achieve $19M in cost savings compared to prior year. Directed technical approach for container rightsizing across EKS and ECS workloads, guided gradual Karpenter adoption for node provisioning, and drove spot instance strategies in lower environments. Success required deep collaboration with the DPI team who executed implementation and testing efforts.
**2. Established Digital-Wide EaC Configuration Standards with Cross-LOB Adoption**
Led the definition and enforcement of mandatory EaC configuration requirements for the majority of Digital applications, subsequently adopted by other CCB Lines of Business. Drove deep collaboration with the EaC team to implement gradual enforcement mechanisms. This initiative reduced misconfigurations across the applica
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pgdad / fetch_file.py
Created July 30, 2025 08:19
Python utilities for fetching files from DNS TXT records
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
fetch_file.py - Fetch a single file from DNS TXT records
Usage: python3 fetch_file.py <filename> [output_directory] [index_hostname]
Environment: PORKBUN_INDEX (default: index)
"""
import argparse
import json
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pgdad / fetch-file.ps1
Created July 24, 2025 21:10
PowerShell scripts for porkbun-txt DNS file storage system (Windows compatible)
#!/usr/bin/env pwsh
# fetch-file.ps1 - Fetch a single file from DNS TXT records
# Usage: .\fetch-file.ps1 <filename> [output_directory]
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[string]$Filename,
[Parameter(Mandatory=$false)]
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pgdad / fetch-file.sh
Created July 24, 2025 14:38
Bash scripts for porkbun-txt DNS file storage system
#!/bin/bash
# fetch-file.sh - Fetch a single file from DNS TXT records
# Usage: ./fetch-file.sh <filename> [output_directory]
set -e
# Check if filename is provided
if [ "$#" -lt 1 ] || [ "$#" -gt 2 ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 <filename> [output_directory]" >&2
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pgdad / multi-files-concatenate-kafka
Created May 2, 2025 11:33
example kafka with listener spring boot multiple brokers
// Project structure:
// - pom.xml
// - src/main/java/com/example/dualkafka/
// - DualKafkaApplication.java (Main application class)
// - config/
// - FirstKafkaConfig.java (First Kafka broker config)
// - SecondKafkaConfig.java (Second Kafka broker config)
// - listener/
// - FirstKafkaListener.java (Listener for first broker)
// - SecondKafkaListener.java (Listener for second broker)
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pgdad / emacs-config-cfn
Created September 10, 2021 19:23
emacs edit indirect use for cfn lambda
(defvar-local lainedev-edit-indirect-leading-spaces 0)
(defun lainedev--leading-spaces ()
(interactive)
(let* ((current-line (thing-at-point 'line 't))
(line-length (length current-line))
(trimmed-line (replace-regexp-in-string "^ +" "" current-line))
(trimmed-line-length (length trimmed-line)))
(- line-length trimmed-line-length)))