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Building a metrics platform that collects network telemetry across Twitter to diagnose outages and track month‑scale trends for capacity planning, implemented primarily in Scala with JVM optimizations and the Cats library, while integrating GraphQL to replace REST for exploratory queries and using Python and ML/data tools for analysis; deployed at Twitter within six months of joining and used to guide device purchases and infrastructure expansion.

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