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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.

PHP Laravel WordPress WooCommerce TypeScript Postgres AI · LLM Agents

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4+ Years shipping

42+ Projects built

31+ Posts written

38+ Open source

01 · Selected work

Things I've built

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2025 · Creator & Designer

This Portfolio (v2)

A Laravel 13 app with a typed admin panel, RAG-powered AI chat grounded in posts/projects, Tailwind v4 dark design system, OG image generator, and full SEO surface — so the site evolves without a rewrite.

Laravel PHP Tailwind CSS Alpine.js

2026 · Creator & Lead Engineer

Tundra — Self-hosted Server Management Platform

Tundra ships a single Rust binary that replaces the panel — declarative site config, native PHP-FPM and Node pool management, Caddy + automatic TLS, and a typed REST/CLI surface. Operators get reproducible builds, one-command deploys, and a real diff before any production change. No license fee, no agent footprint, no language runtime to maintain.

Rust TypeScript Caddy PHP

2023 · Creator & Maintainer

EasyCommerce FakerPress

One WP-CLI command seeds 500 products, orders, customers, reviews, coupons across 14 generators with locale-aware data. 131 Playwright E2E tests pin every generator and cleanup mode wipes test data before launch.

PHP WordPress Faker WP-CLI

/Now

"At work: Senior Software Engineer at Codexpert. Deep focus on EasyCommerce — AI-driven product management, multi-vendor marketplace features, and performance work. Shipped several extensions to the WordPress.org repo thi..."

02 · Writing

Recent essays

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May 12, 2026
· 0 min read

MCP Servers for Laravel: A Production Pattern

How I built the MCP server that powers AI access to this portfolio — JSON-RPC over Streamable HTTP, Sanctum bearer auth, an ability-scoped tool registry, and the gotchas worth knowing before you ship.

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Apr 25, 2026
· 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.

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Mar 10, 2026
· 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.

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Feb 5, 2026
· 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.

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03 · AI playground

Ask my writing.

Ollama embeddings · Anthropic · pgvector. Cited answers, real code.

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04 · Stack snapshot

What I reach for

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Languages

PHP TypeScript Go Python Rust

Frameworks

Laravel WordPress React Inertia.js Livewire Alpine.js Tailwind CSS

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL / MariaDB Redis SQLite Meilisearch

AI / ML

Claude (Anthropic) Voyage AI LangChain / LlamaIndex pgvector Ollama OpenAI API

DevOps

Docker GitHub Actions Caddy Hetzner Cloud Supervisor Linux / Ubuntu

Tools

PhpStorm WP-CLI Pest PHPStan Laravel Pint Vite Playwright TablePlus Figma

Engineering at the edge of code & intelligence.