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Building Rupert: The AI Chatbot Behind My Portfolio

July 17, 202614 min read

Full Stack Development / Backend Development

Building Rupert: The AI Chatbot Behind My Portfolio

A technical case study on how I built Rupert, a grounded AI assistant for my portfolio using Next.js, Vercel, Gemini, a NAS-hosted RAG service, Upstash usage tracking, streaming responses, and strict scope controls.

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ImageFlex: Hosting a Dockerized WebP Converter on a Synology NAS

April 2, 20266 min read

Backend Development / DevOps

ImageFlex: Hosting a Dockerized WebP Converter on a Synology NAS

How I built ImageFlex, a local drag-and-drop image-to-WebP batch converter, and deployed it as a Docker container on my Synology NAS using Container Manager.

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Application Integration and Security at Full Sail University

February 16, 20269 min read

Backend Development

Application Integration and Security at Full Sail University

A retrospective on Application Integration and Security, the course where I learned Python from scratch, worked through authentication and vulnerability management, and shipped a containerized application to AWS, all under the weight of a two-strike course policy.

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Learning Server-Side Languages with Node.js at Full Sail University

January 15, 20269 min read

Backend Development

Learning Server-Side Languages with Node.js at Full Sail University

A retrospective on Server-Side Languages with Node.js, the course where I built RESTful APIs from scratch, learned to test them with Jest and Postman, and connected a live backend to MongoDB running through Docker.

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