https://kashifnazir.com/ Recent content on Kashif Nazir https://kashifnazir.com/images/social/social-card-kashif-nazir-site.png https://kashifnazir.com/images/social/social-card-kashif-nazir-site.png Hugo en-gb Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/blog/aws-summit-london-2026-pre-summit/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/blog/aws-summit-london-2026-pre-summit/ I've never been to an AWS Summit before. On Wednesday I'm heading to ExCeL London, and I've already had to make some hard choices about how the day runs. https://kashifnazir.com/blog/why-i-couldnt-containerise-my-home-server/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/blog/why-i-couldnt-containerise-my-home-server/ A 2013-era i5 meets Docker, WSL, and the reality that hardware ceilings only show up when you try something new. https://kashifnazir.com/blog/using-ai-reinforcement-learning/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/blog/using-ai-reinforcement-learning/ Trying AI Warehouse's Red Light, Green Light simulator and watching reinforcement learning agents shift from chaos to strategy. https://kashifnazir.com/blog/pilot-to-production-gap-nobody-plans-for/ Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/blog/pilot-to-production-gap-nobody-plans-for/ Pilots get support, rollouts get a prayer. Why OS migrations and AI tool rollouts fail in the same human ways. https://kashifnazir.com/blog/ai-for-aws-certs/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/blog/ai-for-aws-certs/ I built two custom GPTs to help study for the AWS AI Practitioner exam. The note-creation one ate more time than it saved. The coaching one was worth keeping. https://kashifnazir.com/blog/architecture-unbuilt/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/blog/architecture-unbuilt/ There are a lot of ways to build a personal site. I went with the simplest one. Here's what I considered, what I'm planning to build later, and some stuff about AI agents that I didn't expect to care about. https://kashifnazir.com/blog/building-this-site/ Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/blog/building-this-site/ How I built kashifnazir.com in two weeks using Hugo, two AI agents, and zero web development experience. https://kashifnazir.com/projects/site-build-log/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/projects/site-build-log/ A short overview of the first public build of kashifnazir.com and the writing behind it. https://kashifnazir.com/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://kashifnazir.com/about/ I'm Kashif Nazir — Kash to most people. Senior Technical Architect at Cloudhouse, and I somehow ended up spending a decade solving problems other people had given up on.