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Software Engineer based in London, specializing in .NET microservices, cloud architecture, and distributed systems. I build scalable platforms and write about software engineering, system design, and technical leadership.

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• How I Became the Impostor: Breaking Free from Toxic Environments and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

  Updated: 6 Mar, 2026

  How I went from questioning whether I belonged in software engineering to becoming a senior engineer, and what I learnt about impostor syndrome along the way.

• Solving Race Conditions in EF Core's Outbox Pattern with Pessimistic Locking

  6 Mar, 2026

  Remember when I spent four days debugging duplicate event processing and the culprit was a double registration? Well, the events were duplicating again. This time, it was an actual concurrency bug.

• Debugging Duplicate Event Processing: A 4-Day Journey Through EF Core Interceptors

  Updated: 6 Mar, 2026

  How I spent four days tracking down why domain events were being processed twice, only to discover the culprit was hiding in the test infrastructure, not the code itself.