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
"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
· 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.
· 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.
03 · AI playground
Ask my writing.
Ollama embeddings · Ollama · pgvector. Cited answers, real code.
avg latency 3.1s · always cites sources
04 · Stack snapshot