$ whoami

Mohammodullah Emran

Software Engineer — (SRE)

I build observable, honestly-documented backend systems. The backend is the portfolio — this site is a thin client of a real, production-deployed .NET API, and every metric on it is real.

resume ↓github ↗linkedin ↗

bash — emran.blog

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curl https://api.emran.blog/api/whoami

// live from /api/metrics

uptime76d 19h

requests today81

p95 latency10ms

error rate2.47%

Featured

GET /projects →

GET/projects/portfolio-api200 OK

emran.blog API

The .NET 10 API serving this site — content ingestion from git, custom metrics middleware, demo JWT flow, and honest trade-offs.

dotnetcsharpefcoresqlitedocker

GET/projects/portfolio-web200 OK

emran.blog frontend

Next.js App Router frontend with a terminal/ops identity — server components, ISR, ~10 hand-rolled components, no UI kit.

nextjstypescripttailwind

Notes

War stories and architecture write-ups. Numbers over adjectives.

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How I cut SQL Server query time 40%

Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min

A production slow-query hunt: reading the actual execution plan, killing the implicit conversion, and proving the fix with before/after numbers.

sql-serverperformancewar-story

How this portfolio works

Jul 8, 2026 · 6 min

Architecture walkthrough: why SQLite over Postgres, why no Redis, why MediatR on only two endpoints, and what changes at 100× scale.

architecturedotnettrade-offs

Migrating .NET Framework → Core with 99.9% uptime

Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min

Strangler-style migration of a production system: the strategy, the rollback plan, what broke anyway, and how traffic never noticed.

dotnetmigrationwar-story