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Projects & Open Source by Clay Levering

Doctrine, agent tooling, media platforms, security posture, and infrastructure that keeps the lights on.

Papercuts

ACTIVE

Public OSS friction-capture CLI (Bun/TS) plus a Claude Code plugin. Doctrine: insanely verbose, never self-dedupe — volume is the pain signal. Turns recurring agent/tooling papercuts into a corpus you can actually fix against.

Open SourceBunCLIClaude CodeDXAgent Tooling

Building Like Claxx

ACTIVE

Public engineering handbook at claxx.gg — 26 principles across 11 sections for shipping software that doesn't haunt you. Stack-agnostic doctrine distilled from production governance (evidence over assertion, gates that can fail, no author audits their own output). Served as an assets-only Cloudflare Worker on the apex. Not a starter template — doctrine.

DoctrineEngineering HandbookCloudflareOpen CraftAI Engineering

SignalBox

BETA

GitHub notification triage tool that cuts through the noise. Subscribe to exactly the workflows, PRs, and issues you care about — get real-time push notifications for those and nothing else. Supports regex pattern matching, failures-only mode, quiet hours, and single-run watching. Built on Nuxt, Supabase, and the Web Push API.

NuxtSupabaseWeb Push APIGitHub APIDevOpsNotifications

Security & Evidence Posture

ACTIVE

Years of production security work made public as craft: Disney Tier-0 media controls, TPN / SOC 2 evidence discipline (confirmed prod vs source-defined vs honest non-claims), OIDC IdP design, credential hygiene, adversarial deep-reviews of inherited systems, and GitHub / supply-chain governance. The same posture now underwrites agent harnesses — AI that can be audited, not just demoed.

SecurityTPNSOC 2OIDCEvidenceDeep ReviewsAI Safety

claxxon-lint

ACTIVE

Opinionated, shareable ESLint configuration for Node.js and Nuxt projects. Designed to enforce consistent code style across teams with sensible defaults for TypeScript, Vue 3, and modern JavaScript — published as @claylevering/eslint-config on npm.

Open SourceESLintTypeScriptVueDX

AWS Infrastructure Cost Optimization

SHIPPED

Led a comprehensive audit of cloud infrastructure spend, identifying $180K+ in annual savings opportunities. Implemented right-sizing strategies for RDS instances, ECS task definitions, and S3 lifecycle policies — all without degrading performance. In many cases, performance improved significantly alongside the cost reductions.

AWSCost OptimizationRDSECSCloudWatchInfrastructure

Media Processing Pipeline Architecture

SHIPPED

Designed and built the video transcoding and quality control pipeline at Blu Digital Group — processing terabytes of media content monthly for major entertainment studios. Built on AWS ECS, Lambda, and S3 with custom orchestration for frame-accurate QC workflows.

AWSLaravelVideo ProcessingECSS3Pipeline Architecture

Pluto TV Content Services Platform

SHIPPED

Architected the content metadata sharing system at Pluto TV during its hypergrowth phase. Built AWS Lambda functions for third-party search engine integration, designed content availability date systems, and wrote complex MongoDB aggregation pipelines for the publishing workflow.

Node.jsAWS LambdaMongoDBContent ArchitectureMicroservices

MySQL 8.4 Performance Tuning at Scale

SHIPPED

Achieved up to 99% query performance improvements across a multi-tenant Laravel application serving enterprise clients. Designed composite indexing strategies, rewrote critical query paths, and implemented query analysis tooling across tables with millions of rows handling thousands of daily queries.

MySQLPerformanceLaravelDatabaseQuery Optimization
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