Skills

Designs RESTful and GraphQL APIs following contract-first principles. Covers endpoint structure, request/response schemas, error handling, versioning, pagination, authentication, and rate limiting. Produces OpenAPI/Swagger specifications and implementation scaffolding.

Designs, optimizes, and iterates on prompts for LLM applications. Covers system prompt design, few-shot examples, chain-of-thought reasoning, output formatting, and prompt testing strategies. Helps build reliable AI-powered features.

Guides systematic code refactoring while preserving exact behavior. Identifies code smells, suggests appropriate refactoring patterns, and executes transformations incrementally with verification at each step. Follows Chesterton's Fence principle — understands why code exists before changing it.

Translates code between programming languages while preserving logic, idioms, and best practices of the target language. Handles differences in type systems, error handling, concurrency models, and standard library APIs. Produces idiomatic target code, not line-by-line transliteration.

Identifies and resolves performance bottlenecks in code and systems. Covers algorithmic complexity analysis, memory optimization, caching strategies, database query tuning, and frontend performance (Core Web Vitals). Follows a measure-first approach.