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The ML Fundamentals Handbook

Jan 2026 · 15 min

Fundamental ML concepts with examples and explanations that feel like a conversation, not a lecture. A guide for building your machine learning foundation before you get to know about different...

AWS Cloud Quest Task 6: Connecting VPCs

Jan 2026 · 9 min

Learning how VPC Peering lets different departments communicate directly without submitting tickets every time they need to access shared resources. Secure, private, and way more efficient.

AWS Cloud Quest Task 5: VPCs

Jan 2026 · 9 min

Helping a bank fix their connectivity issues by setting up VPC Internet Gateways. Turns out, VPCs don't come with internet access by default - you gotta configure it yourself.

Featured Project

Vocabscapes: AI-Generated Word Puzzles That Teach Vocabulary

Jan 2026

A vocabulary puzzle game powered by a 5-agent LangGraph system. Generates contextually rich word puzzles with built-in validation, intelligent caching, and post-game vocabulary learning.

AWS Cloud Quest Task 4: AWS Pricing (Spoiler: It Adds Up Fast)

Jan 2026 · 4 min

Using AWS Price Calculator to estimate costs for a surf shop's cloud migration. Played around with instance types, scaling, and discovered that cloud bills can get wild real quick

AWS Cloud Quest Task 3: Picking The Right EC2 Instance (it matters)

Jan 2026 · 6 min

Learning about AWS Systems Manager, using EC2 Instance Connect to access servers without SSH keys, and optimizing instance types for better performance

AWS Cloud Quest Task 2: EC2 - When You Need a Server Yesterday

Jan 2026 · 8 min

Learning about EC2 instances, AWS regions, availability zones, and spinning up virtual servers in the cloud. Also featuring my first DIY fail.

AWS Cloud Quest Task 1: Why S3 Is Actually Pretty Cool

Jan 2026 · 8 min

My first impressions of an AWS learning game that feels more like a town-builder than a technical course. Follow along as I create a questionable avatar, dodge a rogue gorilla,...

Making Regression Actually Make Sense: Building an Interactive Visualizer

Nov 2025 · 15 min

Ever wondered how social media algorithms know you so well? I built one from scratch to find out, everything from basic scoring to embeddings, FAISS indexing, and the exploitation-exploration tradeoff....

Maira: An AI Companion That Remembers & Cares

Nov 2025

Early-stage emotionally-intelligent AI companion focused on memory, safety, and human-like support. Currently iterating on system prompts and prompt-engineering to make interactions safer and more empathetic.

Featured Technical

Building a Social Media Recommendation Algorithm from Scratch

Nov 2025 · 25 min

Ever wondered how social media algorithms know you so well? I built one from scratch to find out, everything from basic scoring to embeddings, FAISS indexing, and the exploitation-exploration tradeoff. A deep dive into the math and code behind your For You page.

Building a Privacy-Preserving Fraud Detection System with Federated Learning

Nov 2025 ·

How I built a distributed training infrastructure that achieved 99.7% AUC-ROC on Ethereum fraud detection while keeping data private. Complete technical breakdown of the federated learning architecture.