The toolbox, with notes on where I used it.

Used for service-to-service RPC on the content platform — strongly-typed contracts and streaming have paid for themselves in debug time.

My default for HTTP services when latency matters less than iteration speed. Comfortable with async patterns, middleware, and ops.

When the team wants Python and proper type hints — pydantic models keep request/response shapes honest end to end.

Versioning, idempotency, and resource modelling — opinionated about cache headers and clear error envelopes.

Comfortable wiring producers and consumers, but lean on managed queues unless ordering or replay genuinely matter.

Outbox pattern, idempotent consumers, and the boring choreography that keeps a distributed system from corrupting itself.

Day-to-day for local dev and prod images alike — multi-stage builds, slim base images, and reproducible toolchains.

Pipelines that test, build, and deploy without anyone watching — including the unhappy paths.

Just enough cloud to be dangerous: VPC, S3/GCS, RDS, Lambda, secrets management, and IAM policies that actually scope down.

The glue. Small reliable scripts beat half-broken Python utilities every time.

Designing multi-agent systems with explicit planning loops, tool graphs, and the guardrails that keep them on task.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and local-model wiring via LangChain / LlamaIndex — plus the prompt engineering that doesn't pretend prompts are magic.

Playwright and a handful of resilient patterns for sites that don't want to be scraped politely.

Strict mode, inferred types, and zod at the boundary — the combo that makes refactors feel safe.

Reaching for it when latency or memory matters; love how little hidden cost there is per line.

Scripting, data work, ML-adjacent code, and small services — the everyday language.

App Router, server components, and the discipline to keep the client bundle small.

Hand-tuned design tokens, utility helpers, and component partials — the way this site is built.

Theme dev with Liquid + custom sections — pragmatic, not glamorous.