Life in Production

Thoughts on AI, technology, family, hobbies, travel, and everything in between.

Finding the Spark: From Breaking PCs to Building Developer Experience

How I went from breaking PCs as a kid to engineering Developer Experience, and the father who lit the spark but never got to see where it led.

  • Career Journey · Developer Experience · Origin Story · Engineering Culture
  • June 21, 2026  ·  12 min read
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Four Years and One Afternoon

My personal site sat almost frozen for four years. Changing a profile picture took three commits and two merges. Then I opened one conversation with Claude, and in an afternoon it became a different site.

  • AI · Developer Experience · Claude · Web
  • June 18, 2026  ·  9 min read
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The Tri-Regional Operating System: Composing a Career Across the Levant, Europe, and the GCC

An engineering post-mortem on navigating three drastically different work cultures, and the ultimate personal hack for maintaining your sanity across conflicting cultural operating systems.

  • Career Strategy · Work Culture · GCC · Levant · Europe · Remote Work · Systems Engineering
  • June 14, 2026  ·  9 min read
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Debugging the Cultural Stack: Career, Parenting, and Monolithic Legacy Code

Navigating the technical and emotional optimization problem of modern dual-income parenting. This post explores the cultural friction between Western Europe's shared-load architecture and the traditional monolithic frameworks of the GCC, offering a systems engineering perspective on managing external judgment, professional identity, and family dynamics.

  • Parenting · Career · Cultural Dynamics · GCC · Western Europe · Systems Architecture · Remote Work
  • June 11, 2026  ·  6 min read
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