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Articles on software engineering, distributed systems, security, and building scalable platforms.
How I Built AliasMail: Zero-Log Ephemeral Email Infrastructure & Masked Webhooks at the Edge
Mar 2, 2026A deep architectural breakdown of building aliasmail.space — combining Cloudflare Workers edge email routing, volatile in-memory Redis storage, and HMAC-SHA256 masked webhooks for private inboxes.
Hardening React Deployments: Security-First Frontend Delivery with Nginx and Docker
Feb 1, 2026A practical deep dive into deploying React applications with a minimal Nginx runtime, multi-stage Docker builds, and enforced Content Security Policy.
Inside PortfolioPilot: Architecture of a Developer-First Portfolio Generator
Dec 11, 2025A technical deep dive into PortfolioPilot-v1, the Next.js platform integrating Razorpay payments, Gemini AI content generation, and dynamic SEO metadata.
Building in Public as a Full Stack Engineer
Dec 1, 2025Why engineering transparency matters, how to showcase real-world production architectures over tutorial theatrics, and the mental models behind shipping consistently.