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Kcstills17/README.md

Hello I'm Zane

I'm a Software engineer with years of experience in the Ruby and Javascripts ecosystems. I love solving problems and creating new applications.

When I'm not creating things as a developer I love to play basketball and study and learn Japanese.

I have Co-created Retriever, an open-source observability platform that transforms distributed traces into LLM-queryable insights. Check out the Write up on it here!

Before Retriever, I built Request Basket, a full-stack webhook inspection tool, and Goku Chat Bot, a RAG-powered manga recommendation system using vector embeddings and semantic search.


Programming Stack

Category Technologies
Languages TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby
Backend Node.js, Express.js, Sinatra, REST APIs, Server-Sent Events (SSE)
Frontend React, HTML5, CSS, jQuery
Databases PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenSearch
Cloud & Infrastructure AWS (ECS/Fargate, VPC, ALB, S3, Secrets Manager), Terraform, Docker
Observability Jaeger, OpenTelemetry (OTLP), Prometheus, AlertManager, Distributed Tracing
AI/LLM Model Context Protocol (MCP), RAG, Vector Databases, Embeddings, OpenAI API
DevOps Git/GitHub, Linux, CLI Tools, Infrastructure Automation
Other JWT Authentication, bcrypt, Context Window Optimization

πŸ“Œ Pinned Projects

An open-source, AWS-deployed observability platform that transforms distributed traces into LLM-queryable insights via a custom MCP server.

Stack: TypeScript, Node.js, AWS (ECS, VPC, ALB), Terraform, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, OpenSearch


πŸ”— Reach out and connect with me!


πŸ“Š Recent Activity

Contributions to Retriever:

  • Built custom MCP server enabling natural-language trace queries
  • Optimized LLM token consumption by 85% through intelligent data distillation
  • Implemented JWT authentication with AWS Secrets Manager integration
  • Deployed Prometheus/AlertManager monitoring infrastructure via Terraform

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  1. TeamRetriever/retriever TeamRetriever/retriever Public

    An end-to-end observability platform for trace data, exposed through a UI and MCP, hosted in AWS.

    TypeScript

  2. TeamRetriever/retriever-website TeamRetriever/retriever-website Public

    Public website for Retriever - Infrastructure as Code that lets teams spin up a full observability stack + MCP server in their own cloud.

    HTML