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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
36+ Posts written
38+ Open source

01 · Selected work

Things I've built

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"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..."

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02 · Writing

Recent essays

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May 14, 2026
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Scaling a Laravel MCP Tool Registry to 46 Tools

The May 12 post covered the MCP server architecture. This one goes inside the tool registry: class-per-tool structure, Sanctum ability scoping, JSON Schema validation before dispatch, tag-based auto-discovery, and the three things that broke when the registry hit 46 tools.
May 14, 2026
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Stop Using Fixed-Size Chunks for Technical Documentation

Why naive fixed-size chunking breaks on code-heavy documentation, and the heading-aware approach with paragraph fallback and overlap that replaced it in this portfolio's RAG pipeline.
May 14, 2026
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Voyage AI vs OpenAI Embeddings for Technical RAG in PHP

Why I switched from OpenAI text-embedding-3-small to Voyage AI voyage-code-3 for this portfolio's RAG layer — model comparison, the input_type asymmetry Voyage requires, measured retrieval improvement, and the migration path that keeps search live throughout.
May 14, 2026
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A Claude Tool-Calling Loop in Laravel: From First Request to Final Answer

The exact pattern for registering tools, dispatching multi-turn Claude conversations, and processing tool results in a Laravel service — including the three production failure modes the happy path does not cover.

03 · AI playground

Ask my writing.

Ollama embeddings · Openai · 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