Writing

Things I've written.

3 essays on AI, systems, and production engineering.

AI May 2026 · 8 min read

Building RAG Pipelines That Actually Work in Production

Most RAG tutorials stop at the demo. Here's what I learned deploying retrieval-augmented generation for a real contract-review product used by legal teams daily.

Building RAG Pipelines That Actually Work in Production
Engineering Apr 2026 · 6 min read

MCP Integrations: Connecting AI Agents to Real-World Tools

The Model Context Protocol unlocks a new class of agentic workflows. Here's how I wired Claude to internal APIs, databases, and third-party services in production.

MCP Integrations: Connecting AI Agents to Real-World Tools
Systems Mar 2026 · 10 min read

Real-Time IoT at Scale: WebSockets, MQTT, and Lessons Learned

A breakdown of the architecture behind a national law-enforcement IoT dashboard — how we handled thousands of concurrent device connections without melting the server.

Real-Time IoT at Scale: WebSockets, MQTT, and Lessons Learned