Hi, I'm Aibek Sadraliev. Software engineer.
I build web apps and the infrastructure they live on. I write here about what I'm learning, what I'm breaking, and what I'm shipping — in public, slowly, on purpose.
Latest
- note Anatomy of a Coding Agent: Building One From Scratch
An agent is a loop, an LLM, and tool calling. Everything else is harness.
- note From Template to Live App
The earlier post described the App Factory machine. This one is the machine actually running — one command, ten minutes, a live app.
- note App Factory
From manual setup to an automatic project factory — a one-person platform-engineering experiment built on Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS OIDC.
Coming up
- essay Working Code Is Good Code: What SMSBazar Taught Me
In 2014 our team rewrote a working, paying service from scratch. What the SMSBazar rewrite taught me about the difference between bad code and broken code.
- note Scraping the Street: How I Track Road Accidents in Kyrgyzstan from Instagram
Building an OSINT pipeline that turns public Instagram posts into a searchable dataset of road accidents in Kyrgyzstan.
- note Building a RAG-Powered Support Bot for Ray
Scraping historical Telegram support conversations, indexing them in Qdrant, drafting answers to new tickets — a RAG assistant for the Ray team.
- note Learning English by Shadowing: How I Built Koloko
An app that slices YouTube videos into short loops for shadowing practice — and what I learned building it.