Engineering at the edge
of code & intelligence.
Al Amin Ahamed · 4+ years shipping Laravel platforms, WooCommerce extensions, WordPress plugins, and TypeScript systems. Now building with LLMs and agents — and writing about both.
01 · Selected work
Things I've built
This Portfolio (v2)
Laravel 13 personal site with a RAG-powered AI chat, Tailwind v4 dark design system, and a full admin panel.
Tundra — Self-hosted Server Management Platform
A Rust-based, self-hosted server management platform. A modern alternative to Plesk and cPanel with full operator control and native deployment for WordPress, Laravel, Node.js, Python, Go, and Rust.
EasyCommerce FakerPress
WordPress plugin that generates realistic fake test data for EasyCommerce stores — 14 data generators, WP-CLI integration, and 131 Playwright E2E tests.
"Shipped: Portfolio v2 is live — Laravel 13, Tailwind v4, pgvector RAG pipeline, and a full admin panel. Building in public. At work: Leading a team of 6 at Codexpert. Shipped EasyCommerce FakerPress v2.1.0 — 14 data gene..."
More →02 · Writing
Recent essays
· 9 min read
RAG on SQLite: Pure-PHP Cosine Similarity Without pgvector
How I built RAG retrieval against a SQLite database using pure-PHP cosine similarity — when it scales, when it doesn't, and the migration path to pgvector.
· 10 min read
A Multi-Provider AI Driver Pattern for Laravel
A clean driver pattern for switching between Claude, OpenAI, Groq, and Ollama in a Laravel app — with failover, testing, and a single calling interface.
· 8 min read
Cutting Claude API Costs by 89% with Prompt Caching
A practical Laravel integration of Anthropic prompt caching — what to cache, the 1024-token minimum, multi-breakpoint strategies, and real cost numbers.
· 10 min read
Building Production Gutenberg Blocks in 2025
A practical guide to building Gutenberg blocks with the v3 API — block.json, dynamic blocks, deprecations, and the testing strategies that actually work.
03 · AI playground
Ask my writing.
Ollama embeddings · Ollama · pgvector. Cited answers, real code.
avg latency 3.1s · always cites sources
04 · Stack snapshot