AI infrastructure and blockchain roots. I show the work, not the pitch.
Hands-on CTO. 27 years building production systems across 3 continents. Ex-Microsoft, ex-Auth0/Okta. The blog is where I think out loud โ infrastructure, local AI, Solana, and whatever I'm shipping this week.
I asked Loki, my OpenClaw AI agent, to deploy OpenClaw Academy to Fly.io from scratch โ sign up, configure, deploy, add analytics. Here's exactly what happened.
Four providers in the fallback chain. Nine cascade failures in one day. How two config files out of sync turned redundancy into a cardboard wall.
Seven infrastructure gotchas from running a persistent AI daemon on macOS โ from silent sleep mode to corrupted eval data.
Next.js 15 + AI-powered copywriting CLI. Zero to deployed in under 5 minutes. Apache 2.0 โ fork it.
Solana-based Dutch auction for fair ticket distribution. Built during Turbin3's Solana Builder's Cohort Q2-2025.
Solana journey โAI journaling meets gamified role-play. Won $1,000 at UQ Ventures Innovation Program.
Nissan Dookeran โ hands-on CTO, 27 years shipping production systems. Ex-Microsoft, ex-Auth0/Okta. Built across Trinidad, Canada, and Australia. Deep in AI infrastructure and Solana right now.
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