Engineering, architecture, and the craft of shipping products.
Thoughts from Nasikh Mahamood CL — Software Development Engineer II at CAMS, formerly founding engineer at Kamyab and frontend engineer at SurveySparrow. Focus on React internals, performance engineering, and scalable web apps.
A deep dive into frontend performance engineering — avoiding unnecessary re-renders, virtualized lists, code-splitting strategies, and lessons learned from large-scale SaaS platforms.
How we leveraged AI-assisted developer workflows (Cursor, Claude Code) to build, launch, and scale an AI-powered edTech platform to over 10,000 signups in 60 days.
How we boosted accessibility scores from below 50% to over 85% on a production SaaS product, and why accessible code creates cleaner, more maintainable architectures.
Demystifying Google's latest Core Web Vitals metric — Interaction to Next Paint (INP) — along with concrete techniques for slashing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP).
Key lessons, mental frameworks, and habits that helped me progress from solving student coding doubts to architecting high-scale enterprise platforms as an SDE 2.