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.