Four years as a full-stack engineer, which feels like seven in dog years and nine in 3am years. I'm in Islamabad, and at Futurenostics I wire Whisper into GPT and then spend my days convincing it to stop making things up. A confident liar is great at a dinner party and terrible in production.
- Good at: RAG that actually answers the question, backends that don't fold under load, UIs that ship
- Bad at: naming variables.
temp2_final_v3_REAL.jsis a lifestyle - Fuel: chai, spite, and one biryani a week
- Stack: MERN, Python, Postgres, Redis, and a regrettable amount of LLM glue
roughly 80% daily drivers, 20% things that worked once and earned a permanent spot
09:00 standup. "no blockers."
09:30 four blockers.
10:00 quick refactor. famous last words.
13:00 it was a semicolon.
14:00 deploy to staging
14:03 staging is now a campfire
17:00 it works. commit. go home.
17:01 new bug.
23:00 two-line fix. flawless.
03:47 pager. it's the two lines.
most productive hour: 3am. yes, that's the problem.
hiring, collaborating, or here to argue about tabs vs spaces? all welcome.
you scrolled all the way down. we're basically friends now.