Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years building high-performance, cloud-native applications. I write about distributed systems, AI engineering, and the journey to Staff Engineer.
Building real-time, event-driven architectures usually requires expensive persistent servers. Here is how I built a production-grade, fan-out notification engine — entirely serverless — using Next.js 16, Upstash Redis, and QStash.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is the most important AI architecture pattern of 2025. Here's how I built a production-grade document assistant — end to end — using Next.js 16, Google Gemini, and Pinecone.
Consistent hashing is one of those concepts that sounds academic until you understand what problem it solves. Once you get it, you'll see it everywhere — DynamoDB, Cassandra, CDNs, and more.