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What I'm doing now
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 generators, 131 Playwright E2E tests, WP-CLI integration. Now scoping the next major EasyCommerce release.
AI integration: Adding AI-powered features to WooCommerce extensions — smart product descriptions, order insights, automated tagging. Claude API + streaming responses inside WP admin.
Open source: Maintaining 5 plugins on WordPress.org. Working on elementor-mcp — an MCP server that lets Claude edit Elementor pages via natural language.
Reading: Staff Engineer by Will Larson. Taking Go more seriously — building small CLIs and studying the standard library.
Archive
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Jan 2025
Deep in AI integration work — RAG pipelines, embeddings, LLM product design. Built a Specialized Technical Assistant prototype with pgvector + Claude. Experimenting with Dioxus (Rust GUI framework) on weekends. Currently reading *Designing Data-Intensive Applications*.
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Sep 2024
Leading the engineering team at Codexpert, shipping WooCommerce extensions. Spending evenings learning Rust — working through the Book and building small CLI tools. Reading: *A Philosophy of Software Design* by John Ousterhout.