Tools
Tools I Use
The tools, languages, frameworks, and hardware I rely on daily — from ML experimentation to production deployment.
🐍 Languages
- Python — primary language for ML, data, and automation
- SQL — PostgreSQL, SQLite, query optimization
- PHP — Laravel full-stack web applications
- JavaScript — frontend when needed (Livewire/Alpine)
- Bash/PowerShell — scripting and automation
🧠 ML & Data Science
- PyTorch — deep learning, custom architectures
- XGBoost / LightGBM — structured data, time series
- Scikit-learn — classical ML, preprocessing, evaluation
- OpenCV — computer vision, image processing
- YOLO (Ultralytics) — object detection
- Pandas / Polars — data manipulation
- NumPy — numerical computing
⚙️ MLOps & Infrastructure
- MLflow — experiment tracking, model registry
- Docker + Docker Compose — containerization
- Grafana — monitoring dashboards, drift detection
- ONNX — model export and optimization
- Git — version control (GitHub)
- GitHub Actions — CI/CD
- PostgreSQL — primary database
🤖 LLM & RAG Stack
- LangChain — LLM orchestration
- FAISS — vector search
- OpenAI API — GPT-4o, embeddings
- RAGAS — RAG evaluation
- Streamlit — quick ML demos and UIs
- Chroma — lightweight vector DB alternative
🌐 Web Development
- Laravel — PHP framework, full-stack apps
- Livewire — reactive components without JS framework
- Alpine.js — lightweight interactivity
- Tailwind CSS — utility-first styling
- FastAPI — Python APIs, model serving
- NGINX — reverse proxy, static serving
🕷️ Web Scraping & Automation
- Playwright — browser automation with stealth
- Puppeteer — alternative browser automation
- Anti-bot evasion — fingerprint spoofing, stealth scripts, CAPTCHA handling
- GitHub Actions — scheduled scraping workflows
💻 Hardware & Workspace
- Laptop: Windows + WSL2 (Ubuntu)
- VPS: Linux server for MLflow, Grafana, APIs
- Editor: VS Code with Vim keybindings
- GPU: NVIDIA (cloud/colab when needed)
- Terminal: Windows Terminal + PowerShell
- Notes: Markdown + Git (no Notion dependency)
📚 Learning & Staying Current
- Papers With Code — tracking SOTA
- Hacker News — tech ecosystem awareness
- arXiv — ML/cs.CV/cs.CL papers
- Twitter/X — ML engineering community
- Documentation-first: I read the source when docs fail
- Build to learn: every concept becomes a mini-project
🎨 Design & Communication
- Mermaid.js — architecture diagrams as code
- Excalidraw — quick sketches, system designs
- Markdown — everything is documented in .md
- GitHub Issues/Projects — task tracking
- ScreenToGif — quick demos and bug reports