I was part of the Virtual Machine subteam of OpenJ9. My main contributions can be found here. I worked on extending JDK functionality, implementing startup performance enhancements, and unifying the CMake build configuration to support both compressed references and large heap in a single package.

I worked on prototyping new functionality around vulnerability remediation, as well as the Reshift VS Code IDE Extension. I got to play around with the ANTLR parser generator, use and contribute to a Datalog variant for static analysis called Soufflé, and learn how to package and publish a VS Code Extension.

Unfortunately, the startup has since shut down, so the publicly remaining artifacts of this work are the NPM listing, Product Hunt page.

I co-architected the full-stack app, led development and deployment, and managed a small development team. This is a closed-source application with minimal publicly available information.

The main features I implemented were automated email notifications for upcoming penetration test tasks, a dashboard which organizes the client's software vulnerabilities, role-based access control and automated communications between the client and our penetration testing team.

Coded, designed, wrote, spoke and illustrated for The Akita Project, a Grant for the Web funded project that teaches Web Monetization concepts through storytelling, easy-to-use tools and community outreach. This project was co-created with Elliot.

Akita Browser Extension	'A Web Monetization Story'	Community Outreach
A browser extension that gives you insight into your engagement with Web Monetization.	An interactive, story-based Web Monetization tutorial for online creators.	community.interledger.org/akita dev.to/esse-dev twitter.com/esse_dev