Writing
Engineering notes
Drafts that unpack the architecture, tradeoffs, and edge cases behind the shipped work. Filled in over time.
- 8 minRAGAzure AI SearchLatencyDraft
What I learned building grounded RAG on Azure AI Search
Chunking, hybrid retrieval, re ranking, citations, and the latency tuning that cut response time by 30 percent.
- 6 minAutomationArchitectureCostDraft
Why I skipped a vector database for meeting intelligence
How a flat SharePoint list beat a vector index when the access pattern was per person and date range, not semantic similarity.
- 9 minFastAPIDocument AITool useDraft
Bridging binary enterprise documents to LLM tool calls
The TAMALE extraction gateway pattern: streaming PDFs, DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX into structured JSON envelopes safely.
- 7 minAgentsPrompt engineeringEducationDraft
Designing AI tutors that coach instead of giving answers
Mastery thresholds, grounded sourcing, calculation verification, and jailbreak resistance for a live classroom agent.
- 10 minMCPAgentsArchitectureDraft
Building Model Context Protocol servers for enterprise agents
JSON RPC 2.0, STDIO and Streamable HTTP transports, and FastMCP patterns for production agent integrations.
- 8 minFull stack AIPrivacyHackathonDraft
Shipping a privacy first AI analytics dashboard in 72 hours
Browser side aggregation, Claude only seeing JSON summaries, and how the build hung together end to end.