Amin Rashidbeigi

In this post, I look back on 2025, sharing updates from my work, personal life, travel, projects, and plans for the year ahead.

I regularly hold consultation sessions (mentorship, one-on-one coaching, or whatever you prefer to call it) with individuals and companies in two main areas: topic-focused consulting and career growth guidance.

About ten years ago, I started my career as a backend intern at a small company.

In this post, I will review 2024 and give some career and life updates.

A step-by-step guide on how to run llama 3 locally or on an external machine to have a free and self-hosted LLM.

An overview of secret rotation, discussing when to implement it to reduce the risk of data leaks.

A few years ago, I started Expedition Diaries, a personal project to explore old travelogues while learning full-stack development.

Making mistakes at work is inevitable.

This post shares my thoughts on 'The Clean Coder' by Uncle Bob, focusing on topics that I found particularly interesting or debatable.

In this post, we explore the fundamentals of vector search, discussing how it operates and its applications across different data formats.

This post provides insights into managing overdue tasks, exploring various strategies for effectively handling such situations.

Test doubles serve as an alternative to real dependencies in testing.

Recently, I read an interesting article by Ben Northrop that can be found here.

When you join a new team, you are usually bombarded with a lot of information.

As an engineering manager, it can be easy to feel a sense of distance from the team and concerns about technical decay over time.

Here, you can find some of my side projects, which I had a great time building.

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