CH 04 ── CURSED TECHNIQUES

SKILLS

// the techniques, earned not bought

Sheb3o in a technique stance

Three-plus years of production systems — aviation exam engines, 10,000-user ERPs, storefronts. Every technique below was earned on live systems, not in a tutorial. Dots mark how hard I can lean on it when it matters.

daily driver working proficiency

BATTLE RECORD

// measured in production, not promises

92% LOAD TIME CUT 40s → 3s, legacy ERP
300+ REST ENDPOINTS designed & owned
17 ADMIN MODULES lazy-loaded, solo, 1 month
27K+ EXAM QUESTIONS served by the platform
10K+ USERS SERVED concurrent, production
4 ENGINEERS LED cross-functional team

DOMAIN EXPANSION

// seven domains, fifty-eight techniques

FRONTEND DOMAIN

// daily battlefield — three frameworks, one standard

SPECIAL GRADE
Angular 20
TypeScript
JavaScript ES6+
React
Next.js
RxJS
HTML5 & CSS3
Tailwind CSS
SCSS
Astro
Signals & Facade State
Responsive Design

MOTION & CANVAS DOMAIN

// scroll-driven stories, 60fps or it does not ship

GRADE 1
GSAP
CSS Animations
Scroll-Driven UI
Three.js
Konva
Fabric.js

BACKEND DOMAIN

// 300+ endpoints designed, shipped, and owned

SPECIAL GRADE
NestJS
Node.js
REST API Design
Express.js
WebSockets
GraphQL
Prisma
BullMQ Job Queues
CQRS Architecture
Auth & RBAC

DATA DOMAIN

// queries tuned until they stop lying

GRADE 1
PostgreSQL
Redis
Firestore
MongoDB
MS SQL Server
SQL Optimization

INFRASTRUCTURE DOMAIN

// deploys measured in minutes, not meetings

GRADE 1
Cloudflare
Firebase
Docker
GCP
AWS S3 & CloudFront
Vercel
CI/CD · GitHub Actions
Git & GitHub

AI & TOOLING DOMAIN

// new weapons, adopted early, used daily

GRADE 1
Claude Code CLI
OpenAI API
Google Gemini API
MCP Integration
Figma → Code Pipeline
Lighthouse Audits
Jest
Stripe Payments
Python

DISCIPLINE DOMAIN

// the technique behind the techniques

SPECIAL GRADE
Code Review
System Design
Team Leadership
Mentoring
Documentation
Performance Optimization
Shipping Under Pressure

SIGNATURE MOVES

// named techniques, forged on live systems

MOVE 01

WINDOWED HYDRATION

Preloads 10 questions around the cursor. Optimistic navigation, queue-backed state. The exam never stutters.

MOVE 02

REACT ISLAND

One React component hydrating on visibility only. Everything else stays static HTML.

MOVE 03

SIX-TIER RBAC

Hierarchical permissions with wildcard resource:action matching. Seventeen admin modules behind it. Built solo.

MOVE 04

CQRS TEST ENGINE

Command/query split running four exam modes, each with its own timer behavior and answer visibility rules.

MOVE 05

FIGMA → CODE PIPELINE

MCP-wired design-to-code workflow. Wireframe in, pixel-accurate Angular component out.

MOVE 06

THE 92% CUT

Legacy ERP took 40 seconds to load. Re-architected it down to 3. Ten thousand concurrent users felt it.

→ See it all in production