Software Engineer & AI-agent wrangler 🤖 — Python backend, microservices, and applied AI.
I build LLM products with data privacy in mind, work on payment & security-sensitive systems, and self-host most of what I ship.
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- How My Self-Hosted AI Agent Burned $1,557 in 2 Days — a flagship model + 546 tools per call + no caching = a four-figure surprise.
- MCP Tool Bloat: Why 546 Tools Cost Me $1,557 (and the ~700-Token Fix) — the technical deep-dive: deferred tools, prompt caching, and replacing an MCP server with a skill.
Custom agent skills I've built live in skills/ — the flagship example,
the dokploy skill, replaces a 546-tool MCP server with a ~700-token curl doc.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| Praxis | Online education platform — React web, Django API, React Native app |
| Brinix | AI brand asset management — auto-tagging & natural-language search |
| Mluck | Real-estate platform — scrapes listings, predicts prices, maps them |
| ubot | Distributed marketplace-automation fleet — control plane + per-shop agents on a WireGuard mesh |
| itopix | IT hiring platform backend with subscription billing |
Full list → dashgin.com/projects
Python · Django · Django Ninja · FastAPI · TypeScript · React · Expo · Postgres · Dokploy · AWS
This repo also builds dashgin.com (Astro → Dokploy, self-hosted). Source in src/, posts in src/content/blog/, skills in skills/.