I turn ideas into systems that run and scale.

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Building: deeper system design, scalability & DevOps

# projects

three things I've actually shipped, and would defend in an interview.

# blog

writing these is still in the backlog — one's actually live.

Publishedaws

Dreamer's Build Pipeline, Round Two: An Env Var That Never Left the Host, and a Shebang Line You Can't See Is Broken

A NEXT_PUBLIC_ variable that was present everywhere except the one place it needed to be, an Image Index that looked exactly like the bug and wasn't, and a container that refused to start on a file sitting right there, readable, correctly permissioned, and somehow still not executable.

Publishedgithub-codespaces

How GitHub Codespaces Actually Works: A Deep Dive Into VMs, Containers, Port Forwarding, and Persistence

My laptop screen died, so I borrowed my dad's laptop rather than install my whole dev environment on it. GitHub Codespaces made that possible, and it turned into a rabbit hole on how it provisions isolated VMs, persists your code across sessions, and tunnels your dev server to a URL without ever opening a firewall port.

Publishedaws

Adding Serverless SSR to Dreamer: Two Silent Failures Between a Docker Build and a Public URL

A missing folder that only failed once it mattered, a framework name that meant two different things to two different files, and a 403 that survived a correct policy, a correct AuthType, and a direct curl. Three failures on the way to giving my own Vercel clone real Next.js SSR support.

Publishednginx

Setting up my home-server on JioFiber: My CGNAT-to-IPv6 Journey

A Cloudflare wildcard SSL limitation, JioFiber's CGNAT, and a stale DNS cache. Three unrelated-looking problems that shared one root cause: traffic quietly going somewhere other than where I assumed.

# changelog

where the actual hours went, one entry per shipped thing.

docs(blog)Aug 26, 2026

Dreamer's Build Pipeline, Round Two: An Env Var That Never Left the Host, and a Shebang Line You Can't See Is Broken

docs(blog)Aug 9, 2026

How GitHub Codespaces Actually Works: A Deep Dive Into VMs, Containers, Port Forwarding, and Persistence

docs(blog)Jul 26, 2026

Adding Serverless SSR to Dreamer: Two Silent Failures Between a Docker Build and a Public URL

docs(blog)Jul 10, 2026

Setting up my home-server on JioFiber: My CGNAT-to-IPv6 Journey

feat(freelance)June 2026

Shipped a WhatsApp Business SaaS with dual AI agent integration (Claude + Gemini) behind a unified provider interface, serving 10+ live business clients.

feat(freelance)Dec 2025

Engineered two production fintech web apps (Welth Quantum, WealthBrain) for international clients, achieving 90+ Lighthouse performance scores in production.

chore(codecell)Aug 2025 - May 2026

Organized and led 3+ university-wide technical workshops and hackathons at CodeCell++ VESIT, coordinating cross-functional teams and event logistics.

# contact

building something interesting? let's talk.