A working engineer’s public workshop.
Backend, platform, and applied-AI builds — written down so the lessons survive the work.
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See all writingWhat staff-level judgment actually looks like
It's less about technical complexity and more about which problems you choose to solve — and which you let slide.
Why I write as an engineer (and you probably should too)
Writing in public sharpens thinking. It also compounds in ways the resume never will.
Have You Pictured Your Life?
jatto sakeenah picturing her lifeJatto Sakeenah gradually turning me into a poet. Be inspired by what you read and picture your own life.My own pictorial dia-poem. — — — — — — — — — I am torn in the quest to picture my L
How to Build A Task Notification Bot for Slack with Python (Part 4) — Hosting and Testing
Photo of servers by imgix on UnsplashWe have gotten to the final stage of the tutorial series. The part 1 was used to structure our app and setup some necessary helper methods. In the part 2, we built the webhook of our
Things I've built
See allMinerva
AI-powered AML screening: backend, search, reporting, platform.
Senior Engineer · 2025–present
Discova
A calmer way to read and discover engineering content.
Builder · 2026–present
TrustKarry
Peer-to-peer logistics marketplace connecting senders to trusted travelers.
Founding Engineer · 2025–present
Fera
Multi-platform commerce suite for merchants.
Engineer → Lead · 2020–2026
Heroshe
Ship-for-me and Shop-for-me logistics and import infrastructure services.
Engineer · 2018–2025
Applied-AI experiments
Public-safe builds exploring LLM workflows.
Solo · Ongoing
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Browse all notesI'm Jatto Abdul, a senior software engineer building backend, platform, product, and applied-AI systems.
My work sits in the messy middle where product ideas become real software: APIs, data flows, search and reporting workflows, integrations, caching, deployment, and the judgment calls that keep systems understandable as they grow.
I think in systems: boundaries, contracts, observability, blast radius, and the people who have to operate the thing after it ships. I write because thinking in public makes me better.
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