Kadharmoideen Fadurudeen

Lead Engineer & Architect with 19+ years of experience building scalable applications and leading high-performing teams.

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My technical writing, organized by topic instead of publish date. Each section below is also available as a single combined PDF, so you can save it and read it offline.

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Development5 articles
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The Developer Tools I Built for Myself (and Why)

A tour of the free calculators and dev utilities on this site — why I built each one, the itch it scratched, and what I learned shipping a dozen small tools instead of one big product.

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Building Real-Time Full-Stack Applications: A Complete Guide

Ever wondered how apps like Notion, Linear, or Discord keep everything in sync? Learn the complete guide to building real-time applications with WebSockets, SSE, and Supabase Realtime.

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daisyUI: Write 88% Less Code and Build Beautiful UIs Faster

Discover how daisyUI transforms Tailwind CSS development with semantic component classes. Learn installation, usage, theming, and real-world examples to accelerate your UI development by 10x.

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Build Full-Stack Apps in Hours, Not Weeks with Supabase

Discover how Supabase accelerates development with its comprehensive backend-as-a-service platform. Learn to build production-ready apps with Postgres database, authentication, real-time subscriptions, storage, and edge functions.

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How to Leverage v0 to Build Your Professional Portfolio

Discover how v0's AI-powered development platform can help you create a stunning portfolio website in minutes, not hours. Learn the best practices and tips I used to build this very site.

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AI Agents2 articles
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Building a Multi-Agent System from Scratch: Architecture Patterns

Orchestrator-worker, blackboard, and pipeline patterns for coordinating multiple AI agents — with the failure modes that only show up once you go past a single-agent demo.

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Building Agentic Workflows for Restaurant Discovery

Learn how to create intelligent AI agents that help users discover nearby restaurants based on specific queries like lunch buffets, continental breakfast, and more using modern AI frameworks.

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Cloud & Architecture2 articles
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Serverless vs. Traditional Backends: A Practical Decision Framework

Cold starts, cost curves, and operational overhead — a practical framework for deciding when serverless actually wins over a traditional always-on backend, and when it quietly costs you more.

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Designing for Scale: Lessons from Serving Millions of Requests

What actually breaks first when traffic grows 100x — caching layers, database contention, and the architecture decisions that are cheap to make early and expensive to retrofit later.

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Engineering Leadership2 articles
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How I Structure Cross-Functional Teams for AI Project Delivery

Shipping AI features needs a different team shape than shipping CRUD apps. How I structure product, ML, and engineering roles so AI projects actually reach production.

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From Senior Engineer to Tech Lead: What Actually Changes

The title changes overnight; the job doesn't. What actually shifts when you go from senior engineer to tech lead, and the habits that made the transition work for me.

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Personal Finance Tools1 article
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Rent vs. Buy: The Math Nobody Shows You

Renting isn't 'throwing money away' and buying isn't automatically building wealth. Here's the actual math — opportunity cost, appreciation, and the breakeven year — behind the decision.

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AI & Accessibility1 article
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Kutti AI: Building a Voice-First Learning Companion for Visually-Challenged Children

Discover how I built Kutti AI, a voice-first AI-powered learning companion for visually-challenged children, as part of the Half Baked hackathon. Learn about adaptive learning, real-time sentiment detection, and building accessible educational technology.

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AI & UX1 article
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Let Users Speak Naturally — and Let AI Handle the Filters

Discover how AI-powered smart search filters transform user experience by allowing natural language queries. Learn to build intelligent search that understands user intent and extracts structured filters automatically.

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AI Tools1 article
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How to Make Best Use of Cursor AI for Development

Discover how Cursor AI is revolutionizing software development with intelligent code completion, natural language commands, and AI-powered refactoring. Learn practical tips and real-world use cases to boost your productivity.

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Architecture1 article
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Buffet: A Delightful Microfront-end Architecture

Introducing Buffet, a revolutionary microfront-end architecture designed to dramatically increase app delivery velocity. Learn how this modular approach enables teams to work independently while maintaining a cohesive user experience.

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Web Components1 article
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Building Reusable Components with LitElement and Web Components

Explore the power of LitElement and native Web Components for creating truly reusable, framework-agnostic UI components. Learn why web standards matter and how to build components that work everywhere.

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