Projects

Most migrations don’t start because someone planned one, they start because half the organisation is already using something unsanctioned and you’re formalising it before it turns into a compliance problem. I’ve seen that across different types of tech, and the failure mode is always the same: the pilot gets all the investment and the rollout gets whatever’s left, which is usually not much. The hard part of a migration is usually the stretch between a successful pilot and a real rollout. ...

kashifnazir.com is the first public build of my personal site: Hugo, PaperMod, GitHub Pages, and a lot of iterative work with Claude and Codex to get it from generic template to something that actually feels like mine. The project is really two things at once: a live site and a record of how it was built. That includes the design direction, the circuit motif, the decision to launch on GitHub Pages first, and the AWS architecture I deliberately chose not to build yet. ...