Notes
Quiet essays on
systems craft.
Writing down what I learn while building backend systems, AI integrations, and developer tooling.
All posts are currently being drafted. Check back soon.
Backend8 min read
Designing calm, observable pipelines
How to build backend systems that are easy to reason about, debug, and extend — without sacrificing performance.
Draft in progress
Systems6 min read
Latency budgets for real-time collaboration
Lessons from building a WebSocket-based whiteboard: how to think about and enforce latency constraints at every layer.
Draft in progress
AI10 min read
Privacy-first AI: patterns that scale
Why running inference client-side with WASM isn't just a privacy win — it's a performance win too.
Draft in progress
Systems12 min read
The craft of building your own shell
What I learned building ShellShockedJS — a POSIX-compliant shell in Node.js from scratch.
Draft in progress
Cloud7 min read
Carbon-aware computing on AWS
How Viridian routes workloads across regions based on real-time carbon intensity data.
Draft in progress