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Fullstack
engineer

+ Gen AI

I build the API, the UI, and the retrieval layer that makes it smart.

Nine years across Python, Java and PHP backends and React front ends. Now wiring retrieval, agents and evals into the same systems — measured, not magic.

Jay Momaya, fullstack engineer

What I’m shipping

01 — 03 · placeholders

01

RAG · vector search

Project one — RAG doc search

Placeholder. What it does, what it replaced, the number that improved.

  • FastAPI
  • pgvector
  • React
02

Multi-tenant · event-driven

Project two — billing platform

Placeholder. Scale, constraints, trade-offs. Boring on purpose.

  • Spring Boot
  • MySQL
  • Vue
03

Agents · tool use

Project three — support agent

Placeholder. Tool calling, guardrails, human in the loop.

  • Laravel
  • Node
  • Redis

Gen AI — learning log

Updated weekly · notes + repo per rung

  • 01

    Retrieval & vector search

    pgvector, hybrid search, chunking that doesn’t lie.

    Shipped

  • 02

    Agents & tool use

    Function calling into real APIs, with a kill switch.

    Shipped

  • 03

    Prompting & evals

    Building a small eval harness before trusting output.

    In progress

  • 04

    Fine-tuning

    LoRA on small open models. Early days, notes public.

    Learning

Off duty

Trekking first.
Then the barbell.

Nine peaks, a camera, five gym sessions a week and a stubborn food scale. The whole page is worth a look →

Ridge line
Camp, 4am
Deadlift