Blog & Projects
Technical guides and professional materials.
- Building a LinkedIn Prospecting Research MCP Engine with IBM Bob
How to build a LinkedIn prospecting research MCP server with IBM Bob - seven tools over stdio, Playwright for authenticated scraping, Brave Search for signals, and a build loop where Bob both scaffolds and runs the engine.
- MCP, Tools and Skills Through a Security Lens: What You Are Exposing?
MCP, Tools and Skills each open a different security door. Tools are narrow but easy to over-scope, MCP improves auth while expanding trust in servers, and Skills look harmless because they are markdown - until you treat them that way.
- MCP, Tools and Skills for Kafka: Who Does What When Your AI Touches a Streaming Platform
MCP, Tools and Skills are not competing acronyms. They solve three different problems - access, judgement and local helpers - and Kafka makes that separation obvious. Tools call functions, MCP standardises how agents reach the platform, and Skills encode the runbook a senior engineer would actually follow before touching partitions, lag or credentials.
- How to Optimise Tokens for AI
Practical techniques to cut token usage in LLM workflows - from prompt hygiene and context engineering to model routing, caching, CLI tools and lean agent design. Fewer high-signal tokens cost less, stay under budget longer, and usually produce better answers than stuffing everything into context.
- IBM Event Automation One-Shot Deployment
Automated installation script for IBM Cloud Pak for Integration components on OpenShift. Quick start guide for Event Streams, Event Processing, and Event Endpoint Management.