Editor & Terminal
- VS CodePrimary editor with ESLint, Prettier, and GitLens
- Ubuntu / WSLLinux shell for server work and scripting
- PostmanAPI design, testing, and shared collections
- MongoDB CompassSchema inspection and query tuning
Uses
Tools that earntheir place.
A short, honest list of the software and services I rely on every day — nothing here is aspirational.
Stack I reach for
- React.js + Next.jsFrontends and SSR marketing sites
- Node.js + Express.jsREST APIs with JWT auth and RBAC
- MongoDB AtlasPrimary database with Mongoose modelling
- Tailwind CSSDesign systems without stylesheet drift
AI toolkit
- OpenAI APIsChatbots, agents, structured extraction
- Anthropic ClaudeDocument verification and long context
- Google GeminiMultimodal experiments
- Vector searchEmbeddings + RAG for grounded answers
Ship & run
- DigitalOceanUbuntu droplets for production apps
- Nginx + PM2Reverse proxy and zero-downtime reloads
- GitHub ActionsCI/CD with self-hosted runners
- Git + GitHubTrunk-based flow with reviewed PRs