Val Data Data insights, analytics, and technical explorations.
Iām Dominick Ryan, a data and systems engineer. I design reliable data pipelines, profile compute and memory trade-offs, and build targeted software to solve concrete operational problems. This site documents engineering benchmarks, pipeline migrations, and technical postmortems from systems I've built.
How a hybrid workflow pairing basic Python pre-filtering with a local, air-gapped AI model turned an unmanageable 40 MB production log dump into an actionable root-cause analysis.
Reflections on history, economic friction, and resilience while walking the streets of Tbilisi.
Reflections from Georgia on Soviet brutalist architecture, street dog ecology, and a Python differential population model for municipal TVNR thresholds.