On engineering, AI, leadership, and building products that matter.
How I evolved from a junior developer to leading cross-functional teams, managing clients, and owning the full product lifecycle, and what I learned along the way.
A practical walkthrough of building AI voice agents for dental receptionist and appointment booking use cases, covering speech-to-text, TTS, LLM orchestration, and production deployment.
Real patterns for handling AI workloads in Django, from async task queues with Celery and Redis to database optimization, connection pooling, and monitoring strategies learned building the DigitLabs chatbot platform.
Thoughts on staying technical while leading teams, avoiding the meeting trap, earning respect through execution, and finding the right balance between coding and leading.