Writing
Field notes from building infrastructure: what broke, what fixed it, and what I would do differently.
2026
2025
No. 4 Zero‑Touch Staging for MERN with a Tiny, Templated GitLab CI/CD 24 Aug 2025 18 min How I built a lightweight GitLab CI/CD and a fast project templater that take MERN apps from new repo to a Traefik‑routed staging URL in minutes consistent, agentless, and easy to reuse. CI/CD CI/CD 24 Aug, 18 min No. 3 One-Command Git & GitLab Onboarding: The Rust CLI I Built for a Fast-Moving Team 24 Aug 2025 15 min How I turned Git/GitLab onboarding from tribal knowledge into a safe, cross‑platform Rust CLI so interns can push code in minutes without handholding. Developer experience Developer experience 24 Aug, 15 min No. 2 The Journey of Building a Scalable CI/CD Pipeline for .NET Aug 2025 20 min From chaotic manual deployments to a fully automated CI/CD pipeline, this is the story of trial, error, and ultimate success in .NET DevOps. CI/CD CI/CD Aug, 20 min No. 1 The Journey of Building a Raspberry Pi Cluster Aug 2025 20 min From endless trial and error to a working cluster that beat my laptop, this is the long road of failures, fixes, and eventual success. Hardware Hardware Aug, 20 min