Topic

AI Engineering

Guides on building, shipping, and reasoning about AI systems — agents, MCP, RAG, evals, and the operational glue around them.

Guides

7 guides
AI Agents in Compliance

Interview prep for AI engineering and solutions-architect roles applying agentic AI in regulated finance — AML, KYC, sanctions, RegTech. 23 pages covering MCP, harnesses, RAG, evals, error handling, and audit trails, plus a 28-question drill set and four hands-on MCP build tutorials.

Interview Prep Compliance / RegTech MCP Agents
AI Agents Architect — Finance

Senior-level interview prep for an AI Agents Solutions Architect role embedded in Global Finance — agentic automation of close, reconciliations, treasury, audit prep, and SOX-controlled workflows using Claude API, n8n, Python, and MCP, integrated with NetSuite, BlackLine, Kyriba, Fireblocks, and Lukka.

Interview Prep Agentic AI Finance / SOX MCP n8n
AI Agents Architect — HR

Senior-level interview prep for an AI Agents Solutions Architect role in HR / People — agentic workflows over Workday, ATS, payroll, and ticketing that respect employee PII, payroll calendars, and cross-jurisdictional privacy obligations.

Interview Prep Agentic AI HR / Workday MCP n8n
Senior AI Compute Infrastructure Engineer

Senior-level interview prep for a GPU and accelerator infrastructure role — clusters, schedulers, vLLM / Triton / TensorRT, GPU observability and cost, and the production substrate that lets the org train, evaluate, and serve models in-house.

Interview Prep GPU Infra vLLM / Triton Kubernetes MLOps
Senior SWE — AI Infrastructure (Rust)

Senior-level interview prep for a high-scale Rust AI Infrastructure SWE — model inference, orchestration, and execution layers powering agent systems at millions of users with strict reliability, latency, and correctness standards.

Interview Prep Rust Distributed Systems ML Serving Agent Infra
Build an Inference Gateway in Rust

Hands-on build tutorial. From cargo new to a production-shaped streaming axum service that fronts vLLM with batching, circuit breakers, request hedging, and OpenTelemetry tracing. Walk away with a working repo.

Build-Along Rust vLLM axum / tokio Hands-on
PagedAttention from First Principles

A deep dive into how vLLM's PagedAttention actually works — KV-cache layout, why blocks, fragmentation math, prefix caching, and the difference between throughput and goodput. No interview framing, just the concept explored properly.

Deep Dive vLLM KV-cache Inference Internals