24 May 2026
How a School Utility App Became a Full Workflow System
How a personal school utility app grew into a multi-school workflow system with admin-managed parameters, scheduled reports, voice workflows, diagnostics, and secure remote printing.
Writing
Articles and notes on .NET, Azure, RAG, product engineering, and full-stack systems by Shubham Kumar Nayak.
18 Apr 2026
Building ZodiacPlatform: A Full-Stack Astrology SaaS with AI and Wallet Workflows
A product engineering case study on building ZodiacPlatform with Vedic astrology workflows, AI chat, paid reports, wallet points, backend-owned business rules, and full-stack architecture.
11 Dec 2025
Bastion Launcher: Secure Azure Access Without Daily Friction
How a centralized Azure Bastion model and desktop launcher can reduce access friction while keeping remote server access secure, predictable, and easier to operate.
09 Oct 2025
TempMon: A Local-First IoT Environment Monitor for My Baby
How a personal need became a local-first IoT monitoring system with sensors, smart notifications, IR-based AC control, dashboard widgets, and plugin-driven automation.
25 Sept 2025
The College Call Center Project That Shaped My Full-Stack Mindset
A career-origin story about building a call center management system in college with .NET 2.0, WinForms, SQL Server, and IVRS integration, and how it shaped my full-stack mindset.
20 Sept 2025
From Local Ollama to Cloud AI: Practical Lessons for Product Features
A grounded look at when local models are useful, when cloud inference makes sense, and how AI infrastructure decisions affect latency, cost, privacy, and product reliability.
16 Sept 2025
OCR and Summarization with Ola Krutrim: Document AI for Real Workflows
How OCR, handwriting recognition, cloud GPUs, and summarization models can turn scanned documents and school paperwork into practical workflow automation.
28 Aug 2025
Production RAG on Azure: A Practical Engineering Playbook
A practical playbook for building RAG systems on Azure with better retrieval quality, evaluation, observability, cost control, and human-review workflows.
19 Jul 2025
HTMX and Razor: Fast Server-Rendered UX Without SPA Overhead
Why HTMX and Razor can be a strong choice for form-heavy products, dashboards, and internal tools where speed and simplicity matter more than SPA complexity.
11 Jul 2025
How I Built a School Utility App for My Mother
A personal case study on turning school salary bills, leave summaries, official letters, OCR, translation, and remote printing into a practical workflow app for my mother.
02 Jun 2025
Modular Monolith in .NET 9: Clean Boundaries Before Microservices
A practical architecture note on using modular monoliths in .NET 9 to keep delivery simple while preparing clear boundaries for future microservices.