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Notes on software engineering, AI, building products and lessons from real projects.
- Building InterviewMentor AI: real-time mock interviews with the Gemini Live APIHow a browser-only app streams voice and video to Gemini Live, plays the interviewer back with the Web Audio API, and turns a conversation into a structured feedback report.
- From intern to Software Engineer II: what changed in six monthsGoing from building MyDay as a Walmart intern to working as a Forward Deployed Engineer on an enterprise platform — and the habits that carried over.
- Designing for traceability: principles behind MedSporaWhy medicine distribution software should treat every stock movement as an auditable event, and how role-based access and a single operational view fit together.
- Building multilingual AI apps for IndiaLessons from AgriFinAI, Saathi and MediSage on language selection, voice-first interfaces and keeping generated answers short, sourced and safe.
- What hackathons and competitions taught me about shippingFrom ISRO's AMSAS to the Amazon ML Challenge and KIRIT: a practical playbook for scoping, building and presenting under a deadline.
- How I built tabrejalam.com: a static Next.js site driven by content filesA fully static Next.js export with typed content files, honest status labels, per-page SEO, JSON-LD, an image sitemap and no backend to maintain.