Tools I actually reach for.

Default for anything with a frontend or a Node/Nest backend.

Django, RAG pipelines, and anything LLM-heavy.

Default framework for every new product build.

Component architecture, state, and everything in between.

Fast, consistent styling without a design-token layer to maintain.

Structured API services with a modular architecture that scales with a team.

Real-time apps via Channels, and anywhere Python fits the AI layer.

Schema design and Apollo Client caching for data-heavy frontends.

Row-level security as a default, not an afterthought.

Fast to ship on, with auth and storage bundled in.

IAM, Lambda, VPC, CloudTrail — the full identity and network layer.

Every control reviewable in a pull request.

Consistent environments from dev through production.

Multi-provider by default — one vendor going down shouldn't take the product with it.

Isolation and per-document tuning, not a single global retriever.