Bolt.SH
An OpenStack-powered IaaS data center I designed and built — VM orchestration, virtual networking, and load balancing that let teams self-serve infra.
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Faiz Ahmed Farooqui
I design and scale cloud-native, multi-tenant systems across fintech, healthcare, and SaaS — secure payments, real-time platforms, and backend architecture on AWS and OpenStack. I write about the engineering behind it.
Featured work
GeekyAnts/express-typescript Production-ready Express + TypeScript boilerplate — my most widely adopted open-source project, used across 20+ production apps. ★ 1,260 ⑂ 325 GitHub → faizahmedfarooqui/nodejs A low-level Node.js web, API, and CLI app built entirely on Node's core APIs — zero npm packages. ★ 21 ⑂ 1 GitHub → Project · GeekyAnts
Latest articles
The Build Log: Rebuilding My Blog on Astro, Cloudflare Pages & Umami
I already wrote about why I left Hashnode. This is the other half: how the replacement actually works. Every meaningful decision, the code behind it, and the bugs that cost me an afternoon — so future-me (and anyone rebuilding their own sit…
Moving Off Hashnode: Self-Hosting Everything on Astro + Cloudflare
I moved this blog off Hashnode. It now lives in a Git repo as a pile of Markdown files, builds with Astro, and ships from Cloudfla…
encryption
Loading Secrets at Runtime Without Leaking Them: config(), the Keystore, and run
Part 3 of 3 on @faizahmed/secret-keystore . Part 1 was the threat model; Part 2 was the CLI. This part is how your app reads secre…
encryption
Encrypt Your .env with One Command: The secret-keystore CLI
Part 2 of 3 on @faizahmed/secret-keystore . Part 1 covered the threat model; this part is pure hands-on. By the end you'll have an…