Uses

A curated list of the professional gear, software, and tools I rely on to build resilient systems and beautiful experiences.

Development Environment

Cursor & Antigravity / manus.ai

Leveraging next-gen AI-native coding agents to accelerate delivery and automate complex workflows.

Visual Studio 2022 / 2026

The heavyweight powerhouse for high-level enterprise .NET solution management and refactoring.

VS Code & DataGrip

Lightweight polyglot editing and professional-grade database management.

Scalar & Postman

My API design workshop. Scalar for modern documentation; Postman for collaborative contract testing.

Backend & System Architecture

.NET Core & C# / Node.js & NestJS

Building resilient systems with Clean, Onion, and Hexagonal architecture patterns.

Protocols: gRPC / GraphQL / REST

Choosing the most efficient communication layer for distributed microservices.

Messaging: Kafka & RabbitMQ

The reliable backbone for asynchronous, event-driven architectures.

Benchmarking: BenchmarkDotNet / Clinic.js

Continuous performance optimization and bottleneck detection in the runtime.

Security: Burp Suite / SonarQube / Dependabot

Proactive security testing and static analysis to maintain a robust security posture.

Frontend & UI Engineering

Next.js & React / React Native

Developing high-performance user interfaces and cross-platform mobile apps.

Angular / Shadcn UI / Figma

Bridging the gap between high-end design and enterprise-level frontend structures.

Mermaid.js & Excalidraw

Visualizing architectural decisions and complex system flows.

Infrastructure & DevOps

Kubernetes (K8s) & Docker

Orchestrating containerized environments using tools like k9s and LazyDocker.

pnpm / NuGet / yarn / npm

Managing complex dependency trees efficiently across different ecosystems.

Cloud: AWS / Azure / Railway / Cloudflare

Harnessing global infrastructure, Serverless functions, and secure tunneling.

Observability: Grafana / Prometheus / Seq / Kibana / Serilog

Full-stack visibility into system health, metrics, and distributed traces.

AI, Productivity & Knowledge

Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini

My AI Brain trust for architectural reviews, logic clarification, and research.

Notion / Slite / 1Password

Organizing my engineering second brain and securing critical secrets.

Slack / MS Teams / ClickUp / Jira

Synchronizing with teams using Agile methodologies and modern communication.

Workflow: Conventional Commits / Husky

Enforcing high git standards and automated pre-commit quality checks.

Hardware & Core Systems

Asus ROG Strix G533QR

Ryzen 9 5900HX, RTX 3070, 32GB RAM – A dedicated workstation for multi-container development.

WSL2 & PowerShell 7

Seamlessly blending Windows productivity with native Linux engineering capabilities.