#Career
3 articles — newest first.
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How I Went From My First Dev Job to Building AI Systems
Five years, honestly told: an ASP.NET healthcare backend in 2021, full-stack MERN through the ChatGPT shift, nights of embeddings homework, and finally shipping five AI products solo. The journey, without the gloss.
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Hire My Head, Not My Hands: What 5 Solo Products Prove That a Résumé Can't
AI made hands abundant; heads stayed scarce. The closing argument of the Founder's Log series — the architectural judgment pattern across five shipped products, addressed to the person deciding whether to interview me.
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The AI-Native Portfolio: Landing Lead Roles by Shipping the System
A portfolio that lists 'used ChatGPT' reads junior. One that demonstrates systems architecture — RAG, agents, guardrails, latency budgets — reads like the lead they're trying to hire. Here's how to build the second one.