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Building AI Products with a Product Mindset

Why most AI demos fail to become products, and the mental shift required to build something people actually use every day.

5 min read Dec 20, 2024 AI Product

Building a Fintech App in React Native

Lessons from shipping a payments app to 10k+ users biometric auth, offline-first architecture, and the security pitfalls I almost fell into.

6 min read Jan 10, 2025 React Native Fintech

System Design for SaaS at Scale

How I architect multi-tenant SaaS products from day one — database isolation strategies, caching layers, and the tradeoffs nobody talks about.

8 min read Jan 28, 2025 System Design SaaS

What I Learned Leading My First Engineering Team

The uncomfortable transition from individual contributor to team lead — context-switching, code review culture, and why 1:1s are the most valuable meeting on your calendar.

7 min read Nov 15, 2024 Leadership Engineering

How We Integrated AI Into an Existing SaaS Platform Without Rewriting the Entire System

Most AI projects begin from scratch. Mine didn't. I joined an existing production SaaS to design and integrate an AI infrastructure that could support intelligent assistants, Copilot-style workflows, and future AI capabilities without disrupting the application's existing architecture. This wasn't about calling an LLM API. It required designing a scalable AI layer with model routing, context engineering, memory management, usage limits, caching, security, and observability. This article shares the engineering decisions, trade-offs, and lessons I learned while bringing production AI into an already mature software platform.

12-15 min read July 28, 2026 AI LLMs