What I'm doing right now
A current snapshot of what I’m building, learning, and focusing on. Updated when something meaningful changes not a running feed.
Building
Production systems
Working on live CRM and internal business systems used in real estate operations, focusing on performance, reliability, and workflows that teams depend on daily.
This portfolio
Improving the site with a dedicated work section, analytics tracking, privacy handling, and overall polish to better reflect real-world engineering work.
Production systems
Working on live CRM and internal business systems used in real estate operations, focusing on performance, reliability, and workflows that teams depend on daily.
This portfolio
Improving the site with a dedicated work section, analytics tracking, privacy handling, and overall polish to better reflect real-world engineering work.
Focused on
System design
Spending more time on how systems are structured schema design, API contracts, and performance decisions that hold up in production.
AI workflows
Exploring practical AI use cases for internal tools, including structured outputs, summarisation, and automation to reduce repetitive work.
System design
Spending more time on how systems are structured schema design, API contracts, and performance decisions that hold up in production.
AI workflows
Exploring practical AI use cases for internal tools, including structured outputs, summarisation, and automation to reduce repetitive work.
Reading
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Revisiting distributed systems and replication concepts, especially around data consistency and reliability.
The Pragmatic Programmer
Going through it slowly and applying practical lessons to day-to-day engineering decisions.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Revisiting distributed systems and replication concepts, especially around data consistency and reliability.
The Pragmatic Programmer
Going through it slowly and applying practical lessons to day-to-day engineering decisions.
Outside work
Gym — consistency over intensity
Keeping training consistent and simple focusing on discipline and steady progress.
Abu Dhabi
Exploring the city and trying new places when time allows.
Gym — consistency over intensity
Keeping training consistent and simple focusing on discipline and steady progress.
Abu Dhabi
Exploring the city and trying new places when time allows.
Listening to
Lo-fi / focus mixes
Background music for deep work and long coding sessions.
OPM throwbacks
Filipino 2000s music for downtime and reset.
Lo-fi / focus mixes
Background music for deep work and long coding sessions.
OPM throwbacks
Filipino 2000s music for downtime and reset.
Reading log
Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
Re-reading replication + consensus chapters. Direct match for the multi-portal sync work I'm doing now.
Apr 2026
The Pragmatic Programmer — Hunt & Thomas
One tip a day. Practical over motivational — exactly the diet I want for fundamentals.
Apr 2026
- Apr 2026
Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
Re-reading replication + consensus chapters. Direct match for the multi-portal sync work I'm doing now.
Apr 2026
- Apr 2026
The Pragmatic Programmer — Hunt & Thomas
One tip a day. Practical over motivational — exactly the diet I want for fundamentals.
Apr 2026
Software Engineering at Google — Winters, Manshreck, Wright
Up next — particularly interested in how a CI/CD culture scales past my current team size.
Tidy First? — Kent Beck
Short read, big claims. Curious whether the 'empirical refactoring' framing changes my pre-commit habits.
- Mar 2026
Staff Engineer — Will Larson
Sharper mental model for scope, communication, and the difference between technical depth and impact.
Mar 2026
- Feb 2026
A Philosophy of Software Design — John Ousterhout
Module depth > module count. Already changed how I review APIs.
Feb 2026
- Jan 2026
Clean Architecture — Robert C. Martin
Useful as a vocabulary set; I disagreed with maybe a third of it, which is the point of reading it.
Jan 2026
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