Ray Flanagan
CS + Turing @ UT
Software engineer, bagpiper
Cloudflare
- Graph-based maintenance-safety checks for load-balancer health
AWS Neptune
- High-throughput C++ bulk loader for Neptune Native Storage graph database
- 500K+ inserts/sec on 2TB datasets, ~2x the existing path
WAVV
- Custom agent harness and RAG for corporate tax automation
Earlier: IQS Director, flockfysh (UC Berkeley AI data startup), AI Camp
Photos
- 8-stage ML ingest pipeline (RAW demosaicing, CLIP embeddings, face clustering, transcoding) on FastAPI workers behind BullMQ/Redis, with per-stage replay.
- WebP thumbnail ladder and blurhash placeholders, served through CloudFront over Redis-cached presigned S3 URLs.
Grove
- Blocks and TypeScript are the same program, shown two ways.
- Deterministic engine runs in-browser for preview and inside a Rust game instance on a Go-managed EC2 fleet in production.
Towards Full Authorship with AI: Supporting Revision with AI-Generated Views
- Calvin University, HCI Research Assistant, Jun 2023 - Jan 2025. Creativity in writing