👋 Hello World
Welcome to the first post on my personal site. If you have ever opened a fresh project and typed console.log('Hello World') just to make sure everything works, you know exactly why this post is called what it is. It is the first signal that the wiring is in place and something real can be built on top of it.
Who I am
My name is Mukitul Islam Mukit, and I am a senior software engineer with experience designing and shipping web applications that need to hold up under real traffic. I work mostly with React, Node.js, and TypeScript, and I spend a fair amount of time on the parts people do not always see: the deployment pipeline, the caching layer, the database that has to stay fast as the data grows.
For the past few years I have been part of a small US-based startup team, where the work ranges from product features one week to infrastructure and performance tuning the next. That mix is what I enjoy most. You can read more about my background on the career page, and you can browse the things I have shipped on the projects page.
Why I am writing
I have learned most of what I know from other engineers who took the time to write things down. A blog post that explained a tricky deployment, a comment thread that finally made a concept click, a README that saved me a day of guessing. This blog is my way of paying some of that back.
I also write because it forces me to be honest about what I actually understand. It is easy to feel like you know how something works until you try to explain it to a stranger. Writing closes that gap. If I cannot describe a caching strategy or a build step in plain language, that usually means I need to go back and learn it properly.
What you can expect
I want this to be useful rather than just a stream of updates, so most posts will land in a few areas:
- Hands-on guides that walk through things I have actually built, including the decisions and trade-offs, not just the path that happened to work.
- Web development with React, TypeScript, and frameworks like Astro and Next.js.
- DevOps and cloud work: deployment, caching, CI/CD, and keeping an app healthy once it is live.
- Lessons from real projects, usually the kind you only pick up after something breaks at a bad time.
I would rather publish one post that genuinely helps someone than ten that pad out a calendar, so the pace here will be steady rather than constant.
A note on how this site is built
This site itself is a small example of the kind of thing I like to write about. It runs on Astro with React for the interactive pieces, Tailwind for styling, and it deploys to Cloudflare Pages. If you are curious about that setup, I wrote a full walkthrough in Building an Astro Portfolio with Cloudflare Pages. It covers the rendering setup, content management, and the deployment details.
Stay in touch
If something here helps you, or if you spot something I got wrong, I would genuinely like to hear about it. You can find my links in the footer, and the blog is the best place to follow along as new posts go up.
Thanks for reading the first one. There is more on the way.