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November 27, 2025

Building an AI-Powered Document Schema Builder with Real-Time Validation

How I built an intelligent document processing system that uses AI to automatically discover document types, extract structured data with OCR, and validate schemas before deployment - featuring a novel Test Document workflow.

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November 27, 2025

Building Docxster Drive: Enterprise File Management at Scale

A deep dive into the architecture, implementation, and design decisions behind Docxster Drive - an enterprise-grade file storage and management system with OCR, full-text search, and real-time collaboration.

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August 10, 2025

Designing Resilient Queues for Burst Traffic

Lessons from re-architecting Docxster's ingestion pipeline to withstand a million events per day.

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May 2, 2025

Shipping a Routing Engine During a Hackathon

How our NASA Space Apps team built a dynamic routing engine in 36 hours without losing our minds.

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March 18, 2025

My Observability Playbook for Early-Stage Teams

Practical instrumentation steps that help growing teams catch issues before customers do.

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