A handful of titles - short list, opinionated commentary, no affiliate nonsense.
A short, opinionated list of books that shaped how I think about systems.
Most architecture books are verbose and outdated. Here are the ones that are neither.
These are the ones I recommend to engineers I mentor. Read them in order.
A walkthrough of the state machine, audio pipeline, and fallback design I use for Chasyr.
When RAG actually beats fine-tuning, when it doesn't, and how to tell which one you need.
The exact prompts and CI workflows my team runs on every PR. Copy-paste, MIT licensed.
The boilerplate I clone for every new SaaS bet. Auth, billing, RLS, AI hooks pre-wired.
How I restructured a 7-person team around AI tooling. Velocity numbers, cultural pitfalls, what worked.
A guest lecture at COMSATS on how mid-career engineers can move into architecture roles.
Panel at AusFinTech 2026 - the legal, technical, and ethical scaffolding for AI that talks to customers.
My exact dev stack - IDE, terminal, AI agents, productivity hacks. Updated quarterly.
Papers, blog posts, and talks I send every engineer I mentor on getting up to speed with AI.
Remote-friendly companies, visa sponsors, OSS scholarships - things I wish I had a decade ago.