Building a Developer Blog with Astro
How I built this blog from scratch using Astro, Tailwind CSS, and a content-first architecture — including dark mode, syntax highlighting, and paginated listings.
Vahagn Madatyan
Software developer, network engineer, and security architect. Building security automation, agentic AI, trading bots, and the infrastructure that keeps them running.
Latest Writing
View all →Mastering TypeScript Patterns for Production Code
Practical TypeScript patterns that make your code safer and more maintainable — discriminated unions, branded types, exhaustive checks, and builder patterns.
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Markdown Style Guide
Here is a sample of some basic Markdown syntax that can be used when writing Markdown content in Astro.
Featured Work
View all →PolicyFoundry
AI-powered firewall policy analysis and recommendation engine. Automates security policy review with intelligent rule optimization, Terraform integration, and Docker-based deployment.
Python AI/ML Terraform Docker
wheel-it
Automated options wheel strategy trading bot built on Alpaca API. Runs unattended to sell cash-secured puts and covered calls with configurable risk parameters.
Python Alpaca API Options Automation
0xpwn
Fully agentic AI pentesting and security toolkit. Autonomous offensive security operations powered by LLM-driven decision making and tool orchestration.
Python LangChain AI Agents Security
lumon
Mission control dashboard for managing AI agents. Centralized monitoring and orchestration interface for multiple concurrent autonomous agent workflows.
TypeScript React AI Agents Dashboard
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