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Biography

I am a Data Science Engineer at the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI). I work for ACT3, a machine learning/artificial intelligence research team within the Air Force Research Lab.

Portfolio

Hops

Hops is a Homebrew Bottle installer with a focus on performance and mobility.

I worked on Hops as a research project during the final semester of my CS master's program. I was inspired by the release of Astral's uv and my experience at ACT3 using Homebrew to distribute internal software to the ACT3 team and other developers throughout the Air Force (the Homebrew tap is hosted on GitHub).

Kubernetes Configuration Complexity Research

I researched the complexity problems with large Kubernetes system during the second to last semester of my CS master's degree.

Stall, Justen. "Solving the complexity problems of large-scale Kubernetes systems." University of Dayton Stander Symposium, 17 April 2024, https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/3336

ACT3 Project Tool

I built "Project Tool" (act3-pt) for ACT3. The act3-pt CLI is a project management tool that can bootstrap projects from a "Blueprint", creating files and also configuring the project's GitLab settings to enable CI/CD and secure the repository. Project Tool can also update existing projects when their "Blueprint" has been updated, using a Git three-way-merge inspired by KPT.

An open source fork of the project is available on GitLab.