Reflections
What 13+ Years in the Room Taught Me. Honest reflections on technical decisions, team dynamics and the things nobody warns you about
Automation
How I Built a Shareholder Dashboard That Replaced 6 Years of Manual Work — and Taught Me More Than I Expected
I had never touched financial or stock data before this project. By the end, I had automated 85% of a process the CEO and CFO relied on every single week.
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4 min read
API
How We Built a Movie Ticketing Portal That Processed $274,000 in Sales — And What Nobody Tells You About Third-Party APIs
You think it's about writing good code. It isn't. It's about navigating people, legacy systems, ambiguous contracts, and that one vendor whose documentation hasn't been updated in three years.
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8 min read
Architecture
How We Cut Page Load Times by 50% and Bandwidth by 70% — Before Webpack Was Even a Thing
This is the story of how I helped optimize a major events website using Redis caching and JS/CSS minification — and why that experience taught me something about engineering that no tutorial ever could.
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7 min read