Bolt.SH
An OpenStack-powered IaaS data center I designed and built, with VM orchestration, virtual networking, and load balancing that let teams self-serve infra.
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Faiz Ahmed Farooqui
I build compliance-heavy backend infrastructure for regulated industries: secure, multi-tenant systems for fintech, healthcare, and SaaS. Think PCI-DSS payments, HIPAA data platforms, and audit-ready 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 ⑂ 319 GitHub → faizahmedfarooqui/nodejs A low-level Node.js web, API, and CLI app built entirely on Node's core APIs, with zero npm packages. ★ 20 ⑂ 1 GitHub → Project · GeekyAnts
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ai-engineering
Same Model, Different Answers: What an AI Harness Actually Is
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ai-engineering
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