Technical articles, tutorials, and thoughts on software engineering
Full-Stack Development
A hands-on guide to hiring an AI engineer: how to define the role, vet real LLM and agent experience, run a take-home with a scoring rubric, spot red flags, and choose between full-time, contract and fractional.
The most effective AI-powered products are rarely built by an AI specialist alone — they need the full-stack discipline to actually ship as real software.
A practical, non-academic rundown of the system design concepts that actually come up in day-to-day full-stack engineering work.
There's no single number, but there is a reliable framework for estimating it based on scope, integrations, and team composition.
NestJS's structured, modular architecture is a good fit for backend services that need to integrate LLM calls, queues, and external APIs cleanly.
React's ecosystem has enough depth and enough footguns that genuine specialization produces measurably better outcomes than general full-stack familiarity.
A concrete, prioritized checklist for diagnosing and fixing the most common Next.js performance issues.
Next.js bundles routing, rendering strategy, and API endpoints into one framework — here's what that actually saves you in practice.
