Uses

Most days start in VS Code, where I write the bulk of my full-stack and web code with a handful of extensions I trust. When I want to move faster I switch to Kiro, my AI-first workspace for agentic coding and quick iteration. And when an idea is still half-formed, I throw it into Antigravity — a sandbox where I can experiment with new setups and libraries before they ever touch a real project.

A good session needs a good soundtrack, so Spotify is almost always running — daily playlists, lo-fi, and the odd podcast between tasks. Everything I need to remember lives in Notion, my second brain for project docs, task tracking, and notes. I browse the web in Brave for its built-in privacy and ad blocking, and when a project needs images delivered fast, I lean on Cloudinary to host, transform, and serve them.

For quick local work — git, dev servers, one-off commands — I stay in the System Terminal. When I need SSH or a proper bash script on Windows, I reach for Git Bash. And to practise DevOps without breaking anything real, I spin up isolated Linux boxes in VirtualBox and VMware — mostly Ubuntu and Rocky Linux.

When it is time to ship, AWS is home for most of my cloud infrastructure and production workloads. I package apps into containers with Docker and orchestrate them as reliable services using Kubernetes. Deployments run through automated pipelines in Jenkins, and I keep every environment reproducible with Infrastructure as Code in Terraform.

I build websites and apps with React and Next.js on the front end, backed by Node.js services — all typed end-to-end with TypeScript. I style everything with Tailwind CSS, and depending on the project I store data in PostgreSQL or MongoDB.