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A complete collection of my writings on engineering, career journeys, and observations on the tech industry.

2024-05-02

Beyond the Code: From 770 Resumes to AMD & Apple

A journey of dropping university prestige, reverse-engineering the job market, and using Interview-Prompted Learning to land top-tier infrastructure roles.

#Career Strategy#Reverse Engineering#Job-Board-Driven Learning#System Design#GTD & Productivity#AI Infrastructure
2026-02-20

Architecting a Resilient AI API Gateway: Deep Dive into Distributed Rate Limiting

A deep dive into building a production-grade AI API Gateway in Go, exploring dual-layer caching, Redis Lua atomic operations, and Fail-Open vs. Fail-Closed distributed strategies.

#Backend Engineering#System Design#Go#Redis
2026-02-20

Designing for the Surge: Architectural Trade-offs in Building a High-Concurrency Ticketing System

An inside look at the engineering decisions behind FlashForm, exploring asynchronous load leveling, Redis mutex locks, and event-driven architecture.

#High Concurrency#System Design#Spring Boot#RabbitMQ#Redis
2026-01-12

When the GUI Disappears: Google UCP and the Shift to Protocol-First Commerce

Deconstructing Google's UCP through architectural perspectives: API as a Product, Schema.org, and managing High Concurrency Reads without Walled Gardens.

#System Design#AI Agents#Backend Engineering
2026-01-10

Backing Up My Brain Before the Army: Automating Blog Workflows

A realistic look at acting as the Architect to an AI Executor, fighting hallucinations to build a content pipeline 20 days before military enlistment.

#Automation#AI Engineering#System Design#Python