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I'm Saravanan — with over 20 years in enterprise engineering, 50+ production-deployed applications, and AWS Community Builder. I write field notes on Sovereign AI, AI-SDLC, and what AI-assisted engineering actually looks like when the discipline has to hold.
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Two Years of AI-Assisted Code Development. Here Is What I Learned and Built.
Field notes from two years of building 50+ production apps with AI tools — and how every lesson from that journey shaped the blog you are reading right now.
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Private GPT, air-gapped LLMs, and regulated AI infrastructure.
SOC2/ISO patterns, zero-trust, secrets management, audit-ready IaC.
Internal Developer Platforms, golden paths, and supply-chain security.
CI/CD, IaC, deployment strategies, and operational excellence.
AWS, Azure, GCP — cost, resilience, and reference architectures.
Managed AI services, GPU platforms, model runtimes, and provider trade-offs across public and ecosystem-specific AI stacks.
Architecture, roles, and engineering practices for AI-based product development.
Process-first SDLC automation, review, and governance for AI-assisted delivery.
Field-tested practices, prompting discipline, and design-first methods for shipping with AI tools.
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