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Alen Alex.

Research Assistant · Software Engineer · Cork, Ireland

I build backend systems and write about whatever I'm learning.

  • [ OK ]backend engineering · distributed systems · reliability
  • [ OK ]stack: .NET · Java · Angular · Rust · Postgres · Redis · Docker
  • [ .. ]homelab: checking
  • [WARN]caffeine_reserves: critically low · non-fatal
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  1. WR 002Building prompts from blocks, not stringspart 1 · What I learned engineering prompts for a real app
  2. WR 001This repo is my CMS
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