Salam, and hi, I'm Sohaib. I've spent the last few years doing platform engineering at some big firms, and I've reached the point where I'd rather build my own things than only ship other people's. Most people consume what gets built. I want to be on the other side of that, making things that work and showing other engineers how I got there.
The trace below is scripted, not live. The real agent is deployed and free to try; the public instance replays recorded runs, so it costs nothing.
Two flagships, deployed and open to anyone, with the depth behind them. Then the rest.
Incident agent with five SRE tools, streaming each call as it investigates.
An MCP server that makes context window usage visible for any agent loop.
Islamic Home Purchase Plans compared against conventional mortgages. Free, no tracking.
Azure OpenAI deployments from YAML, with a Python pipeline for quota discovery and capacity weighting.
Vertex AI Vector Search indexes and endpoints, with Python for embeddings and validation.
Next.js on Cloud Run behind a global load balancer, with Cloud Armor and rate limiting.
Flask on ECS Fargate with VPC, ALB, Route 53 and a health endpoint wired to the ECS check.
Platform work is mostly invisible, so here it is written up the way I would write a postmortem.
Four roles, all delivery-facing. The through-line is platform work other engineers depend on.
Sohaib, you are a delight to work with and you have continuously been supporting and helping us onboard onto this LLM platform. We’ve been able to automate our workflows and increase productivity by 45%.
I take a limited number of 1:1 sessions outside of work, for people who want a steer from someone a few steps further down the same road.
Breaking into platform or AI engineering, levelling up to senior, or working out your next move.
Ongoing 1:1 support on the engineering, the projects, and the bits nobody teaches you.
Agents, MCP, LLM evaluation, guardrails, Terraform at estate scale. The things I do at work.
Three posts, each from a problem I hit at work rather than a tutorial rewritten from the docs.
I’m a senior cloud and AI platform engineer based in Preston, in the UK. Five and a half years in, most of it inside regulated environments where the work has to actually hold up.
Outside the terminal I follow tech news and world affairs closely, and I travel as much as I can, more than 25 countries so far. New places, new food, new context for how other people build and live.
When I’m not working I’m usually learning a new skill, building something of my own, or talking to people about what they’re working on and where it might go.
