Director of Products at CodeClouds. 12 years building web products, cloud systems, and the teams behind them — started as a developer in 2014, been at CodeClouds since 2016 (junior → senior → team lead → PM → Director, same company).
I write about real decisions and real scars — the stuff that only shows up after you've lived with a system in production for a few years — at techunfiltered.dev.
Most of my code lives in private repos — CodeClouds products and iToolVerse are on GitLab. The public footprint here is small and deliberate:
- vaaky-highlighter — a WordPress plugin I've quietly maintained for 10+ years
- Older experiments and abandoned packages that once solved a real problem for me
If you find something useful here, treat it as a bonus — the headline work lives elsewhere.
I don't write tutorials. I write about calls I had to make and still live with.
- Architecture & infrastructure decisions — the ones I got right, the ones I'd redo
- Systems that look fine in theory and break at scale — indexes, queues, rate limits, event-driven nightmares
- Engineering leadership without losing the craft — how I still read code, review PRs, and build tools while leading teams
- Builder stories — tools like itoolverse, plugins, side experiments
New posts ship every week at techunfiltered.dev.
- How I Use AI as a Manager to Save 10+ Hours Every Week
- VPCs, Subnets, and Routing — Explained Like a Real System, Not a Textbook
- Why Your Database Indexes Are Not Working (And How to Fix Them)
Not a skills-list flex — just what's actually in my daily rotation at work and on side projects.
Languages
Frameworks & runtime
Data
Cloud & infra
Dev tooling
