Hi, I'm Dashgin 👋

Software Engineer & AI-agent wrangler 🤖 — Python backend, microservices, and applied AI.
I build LLM products with data privacy in mind, work on payment & security-sensitive systems, and self-host most of what I ship.

Website · Blog · Résumé · LinkedIn

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✍️ Latest writing

• How My Self-Hosted AI Agent Burned $1,557 in 2 Days — a flagship model + 546 tools per call + no caching = a four-figure surprise.
• MCP Tool Bloat: Why 546 Tools Cost Me $1,557 (and the ~700-Token Fix) — the technical deep-dive: deferred tools, prompt caching, and replacing an MCP server with a skill.

🤖 AI skills & tooling

Custom agent skills I've built live in skills/ — the flagship example, the dokploy skill, replaces a 546-tool MCP server with a ~700-token curl doc.

🛠️ Selected projects

Project	What it is
Praxis	Online education platform — React web, Django API, React Native app
Brinix	AI brand asset management — auto-tagging & natural-language search
Mluck	Real-estate platform — scrapes listings, predicts prices, maps them
ubot	Distributed marketplace-automation fleet — control plane + per-shop agents on a WireGuard mesh
itopix	IT hiring platform backend with subscription billing

Full list → dashgin.com/projects

🧰 Stack

Python · Django · Django Ninja · FastAPI · TypeScript · React · Expo · Postgres · Dokploy · AWS

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