Senior Software Engineer
Building scalable distributed systems by day,
exploring AI and sharing knowledge by night.
Building impactful products at industry-leading companies
Senior Software Engineer
E-commerce platform development, shopping cart systems, and GraphQL APIs serving millions of users.
Senior Software Developer
AI-powered B2B marketing analytics platform backend, building scalable APIs for account intelligence and intent signals.
Senior MTS
Enterprise virtualization solutions and cloud infrastructure tools powering global data centers.
Software Development Engineer
Speech middleware and Alexa SDK components, enabling voice interactions for millions of Echo devices.
Software Development Engineer
Cloud-native microservices and automation frameworks, streamlining enterprise IT operations at scale.
Deep dives into distributed systems, AI, and software engineering
There is a new #1 on the Frontend Code Arena. It is not Anthropic, it is not OpenAI, and it...
Everyone is arguing about which search API to wire up to Claude Code. Brave, Tavily, Serper, Exa, you, me, all...
I read the receipts. So should you, before you type grok -p "fix the bug" into your terminal.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 Sol on July 9th, and if you blinked, you missed the most important line in the entire...
The Muse Spark 1.1 announcement dropped today and the front-page story is "Meta released a coding agent at near-Opus level."...
xAI dropped Grok 4.5 yesterday and the benchmark chart is the least interesting part of the announcement. Read the second...
Things I've built - from macOS apps to browser extensions and developer tools
Use your existing Perplexity Pro subscription with AI coding tools - no API costs required. Integrates with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other MCP clients.
Universal MCP-to-CLI installer that gives agents skill-based MCP access with zero context bloat.
A macOS menu bar app that lets you rewrite selected text using AI models from Ollama, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude.
A proxy server exposing Anthropic and OpenAI compatible APIs backed by Antigravity Cloud Code. Use Claude and Gemini with any compatible client.
MCP server + browser extension that lets AI agents drive your real, logged-in Chrome or Firefox session.
Native macOS command center for Claude Code & Codex config - MCP security scanner, context budget, sessions, backups.
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