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Shlok Bam / Portfolio 2026

Build logs from the things that went wrong.

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12 entriesAgents · RAG · MCP · DevOps2026
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Sep 2026RAGJournal
Building generative AI apps with LangChain: document loaders, text splitters, ChromaDB and LCEL

Hands-on RAG practice — loaders, splitters, ChromaDB vector stores and LCEL runnables.

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Sep 2026LLMOpsJournal
My LangSmith learning log: tracing, debugging and optimising LLM chains and RAG pipelines

Tracking prompts, latency and token costs in LangSmith — and tuning a PDF RAG pipeline over 4 iterations.

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Aug 2026AgentsJournal
Hands-on agentic AI with LangGraph: sequential, parallel and conditional state workflows

Stateful LangGraph workflows — from parallel essay graders to equation solvers and sentiment routers.

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Aug 2026MCPJournal
Exploring the Model Context Protocol: AI tools, Streamlit clients and emailmd assistants

Custom FastMCP servers, emailmd API tools and an interactive Streamlit chatbot client.

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Aug 2026DevOpsJournal
My 7-day DevOps lab: learning Terraform, Ansible and HashiCorp Vault by building real infrastructure

From clicking around the AWS console to Terraform modules, S3 state locking, Ansible playbooks and Vault secrets.

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Jul 2026ArchitectureJournal
Designing a real-time inventory system with FIFO stock reduction, PDF invoicing and Telegram webhooks

FIFO batch allocation, concurrency-safe PostgreSQL transactions, ReportLab invoices and instant Telegram alerts.

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Jun 2026AgentsJournal
I built DailyDiff — an autonomous multi-agent tech research and editorial team

How the LangGraph editorial pipeline filters technical noise into sharp 5-point developer briefs.

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May 2026AgentsJournal
Building an autonomous multi-agent research and fact-auditing system with LangChain, Mistral and RAG

An async pipeline that crawls the web, cleans pages, drafts reports, audits facts and indexes vectors in Pinecone.

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Apr 2026Full-stackJournal
Building Eagle LMS: leading an industry-sponsored full-stack project from napkin to production

Leading a team of five on a dual-role web and React Native app with dynamic watermarking and phase-based unlocking.

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Apr 2026AI & ReactJournal
I built an AI-powered mock interview platform — everything that went wrong

The story of MockVue: AI feedback, live code execution and analytics, and every wrong turn on the way.

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Mar 2026AI & FlaskJournal
I built an AI data analyst app from scratch — how I taught a Flask app to think

The build log behind AI Data Analyst: turning raw datasets into LLM-generated insights, charts and summaries.

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Mar 2026DevOpsJournal
I built a full DevOps CI/CD pipeline from scratch — everything that went wrong

Docker, Jenkins, Terraform and AWS EC2 — what it actually took to ship a Flask app end to end.