AI and Your Future Job
AI is not a genie — it is an amplifier. Whether your career thrives in the AI era comes down to two things: whether your work improves through continuous learning, and whether you genuinely love that learning.
Tech Lead • Retail Media Platform Engineering
Leading engineering teams to build scalable backend systems and cloud-native platforms. Former CS educator turned tech lead, passionate about system architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving technical strategy.
Building scalable backend systems with Spring Boot, microservices architecture, Azure cloud infrastructure, and production-grade APIs
Designing resilient systems, leading major refactors, technical decision-making, and long-term platform evolution
Leading 5-10 engineer teams, mentoring junior developers, code review, and building collaborative engineering culture
Integrating AI APIs and services into production applications, exploring emerging technologies through hands-on experimentation
Personal project exploring cloud-native architecture and platform engineering. Full-stack media platform with Kubernetes deployment on Linode, Spring Boot microservices, React SPA, and hands-on learning with modern DevOps practices and system design patterns.
AI is not a genie — it is an amplifier. Whether your career thrives in the AI era comes down to two things: whether your work improves through continuous learning, and whether you genuinely love that learning.
As AI tools lower the floor for code generation, the gap between engineers who deeply understand fundamentals and those who don't is widening—not closing.
From ambitious video remixing dreams to discovering LLMs' real strength in content moderation—lessons from building a Model Context Protocol server.
Deep dive into performance optimization, caching strategies, and horizontal scaling for high-traffic applications.
Lessons learned from building cohesive full-stack applications and managing state across the stack.
Practical insights from deploying production workloads to Kubernetes, including monitoring and troubleshooting.
Technology choices, trade-offs, and architectural patterns used in building a modern media platform.
Building high-performing teams through clear communication, code review practices, and collaborative workflows.
How deliberate practice and continuous learning accelerate your growth as a software engineer.