Publication
Engineering journal for builders.
I write about things I ship and learn: systems design, AI implementation, tutorials, and practical engineering decisions.
Engineering Systems
Scalability patterns, backend architecture, and production reliability lessons.
AI & LLM
Prompt strategy, RAG implementation, and practical AI feature integration.
Tutorials
Small, practical guides that solve one concrete problem clearly and fast.
Field Notes
What I learned while shipping products: tradeoffs, mistakes, and better decisions.
Articles
Designed to scale as a multi-domain engineering knowledge base.
DETR vs. ViT: Two Different Questions, Not One Architecture Plus a Head
A Vision Transformer classifies an image. DETR finds every object in it. The two models diverge earlier than most explanations admit, and the distinction changes how you should read both papers.
RAG Does Not Do Math, and That's Okay
Retrieval gets your model the right numbers. It does not make the model good at arithmetic. Here is how to stop pretending otherwise.
Fine-Tuning Is Fine-Tuning Until It Isn't
Fine-tuning looks like a solved problem right up until the model quietly forgets something you never tested for. A field guide to when it helps and when it bites back.
The 5 Questions I Ask Before I Trust Any AI System
A short, repeatable framework for deciding whether an AI feature is ready for production, before a user finds the gap for you.
The Single Pipeline That Explains Modern Computer Vision
Classification, detection, segmentation, and vision-language models all reduce to the same five stages. Once you see the pipeline, the papers stop looking like separate fields.
How We Built Map-Based Property Search in East Africa Without Google Maps
Google Maps pricing and coverage gaps make it a bad fit for proptech in East Africa. Here is the OpenStreetMap-based stack we used instead, and what broke along the way.
The Power of Static Typing in Production Systems
A practical guide to how static typing improves reliability, refactoring safety, and delivery speed in real production codebases.
Need an article on a specific topic?
I can publish breakdowns on requested domains: backend, AI systems, frontend architecture, or short tutorials.