Cloud engineering ⇔ AI infrastructure

Building for the age of cloud.

CloudJi brings together my hands-on cloud and AI infrastructure projects, architecture decisions, and technical articles. It explores how systems are designed, secured, automated, monitored, and evolved—from traditional cloud platforms to AI infrastructure—while also covering other technologies and projects that interest me.

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Core project

Personal Search & RAG Application →

Begins with keyword search, adds embeddings and chunk-based vector retrieval, then introduces LLM generation with grounded citations. The frontend remains static while APIs and managed services provide dynamic behavior.

Focus: understand each RAG layer separately
Core project

V1 Production-Style Traditional Search Platform →

AWS VPC across multiple Availability Zones, CloudFront, API Gateway, S3 presigned uploads, SQS and DLQ processing, Python workers, OpenSearch BM25, IAM, monitoring, Terraform, and Docker.

Focus: reliable asynchronous search infrastructure
Individual project

DARWIN Junior Hands-on Project Framework →

A structured way to turn technical topics into repeatable junior-level exercises: objectives, prerequisites, guided implementation, verification steps, troubleshooting, and review questions.

Can later contain AWS, Linux, Kubernetes, or DevOps labs
Fundamental project

TLS & Workload Identity Lab →

A hands-on exploration of certificate chains, TLS handshakes, mTLS, Smallstep, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and how workload identity changes trust between services and agents.

Focus: see trust mechanisms working

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Selected Articles

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