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Selected work.

2025 — present

Each case study is a problem in the client's words, an approach, what shipped, and honest scope on what was and wasn't included.

  1. 01

    Neev

    Hero case · MSME thesis

    Bringing AI to an industry that still runs on WhatsApp.

    RoleCo-founder & CTO — product, architecture, build
    StackNext.js · Postgres · multi-tenant monolith
    EvidenceMSME depth · systems & product discipline
    2026 — now
  2. 02

    VeriCite

    AI systems depth

    A retrieval stack an institution can actually trust with its own words.

    RoleCo-founder & CTO — retrieval pipeline
    StackHF TEI · Qdrant · Ory · Kubernetes · Vercel
    EvidenceInstitutional AI-systems sophistication
    2026 — now
  3. 03

    Bluehost · agents framework

    Production scale

    The foundational platform behind Bluehost's agentic AI products.

    RolePlatform engineer · ongoing
    StackAgent runtime · tool-calling · observability
    EvidenceOperating at scale · team context
    2025 — now
  4. 04

    curat.money

    Product breadth

    A fair-comparison tool for crypto cards, built like a real product.

    RoleCTO · Tech Lead
    StackK8s · RBAC · CI/CD · High-throughput data pipeline
    EvidenceData pipeline to web product
    2026 — now
  5. 05

    ClusterBid

    UAT platform engineering

    Taking a Go-and-Next.js inference-cloud platform from monorepo checks to a real-host k3s UAT — without mistaking pre-production proof for production.

    RoleEngineering advisor · process & platform
    StackGo workspace · Next.js · TypeScript · Helm · k3s
    EvidencePre-production delivery · platform discipline
    2026 — UAT