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I Built My Engineer Portfolio From Scratch — 5 Lessons Learned

The behind-the-scenes of building my personal portfolio from zero to production in 2.5 weeks. From the surprise that solved hallucination in my AI chatbot, to my .NET 10 + Next.js + LangGraph stack choices, to 5 lessons distilled from 12 production bugs — a story of seeing the value in writing your own system instead of filling out a template.