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Ice Bear ships full-stack — FastAPI & Node, PostgreSQL, React, and applied AI (yes, including the chatbots). Ice Bear's portfolio lives here. Welcome to the iceberg.

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Episode 01 · The Bear

Meet Ice Bear.

A.k.a. Nitin Negi. Full-stack engineer with a thing for cold storage, async pipelines, and shipping things end-to-end.

Nitin Negi

Software Engineer · Sonoka.asia

Ships production SaaS across the Python and Node ecosystems. Comfortable end-to-end — APIs, data layers, React UIs, and applied AI including RAG-powered chatbots. Currently leading full-stack on Otto, a productivity app for web, mobile, and desktop.

Spirit animal: Ice Bear. Stoic. Hyper-competent. Speaks in third person, sometimes.

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Ships solo & in teams

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API → UI ownership

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Async-first by default

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Calm under deadlines

PORTRAIT
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Episode 02 · Survival Kit

Tools the bear actually uses.

A working set, not a wishlist. These are the things Ice Bear reaches for when something needs to ship.

The Window

What the user actually sees.

ReactTypeScriptJavaScript

The Engine Room

Where the work happens.

Node.jsExpressTypeScriptFastAPIPython

The Brain

RAG, LLMs, and bots that behave.

RAG SystemsLLM IntegrationsVercel AI SDKChatbots

Cold Storage

Schemas that won't melt under load.

PostgreSQLSupabaseSQLAlchemyAlembic

The Sky

Containers and clouds, no yaml soup.

AWS EC2S3DockerGitGitHub

The Currents

Concurrency without disrespect.

AsyncioHTTPXBeautifulSoupRegexWebSockets

The Wilderness

Currently on the bench.

Scraping @ scaleML basics

Cold Brew

Without which, nothing ships.

Black coffeeMore coffee

Episode 03 · The Expeditions

Things the bear shipped.

Production code from the day job and side projects that taught Ice Bear something worth keeping.

DEC 2025 → NOW

Otto — productivity, three ways

Software Engineer · Sonoka.asia

Promoted from intern. Leading full-stack development of a productivity app spanning web, mobile, and desktop — type-safe data models, real-time sync, and end-to-end feature ownership from API to UI.

Node.jsExpressTypeScriptFastAPIReactPostgreSQLDockerAWS

JUN 2024 → DEC 2025

WhatsApp → Resume, automated

Full Stack Intern · Sonoka.asia

A SaaS platform that automates resume & portfolio creation through a WhatsApp chatbot. FastAPI services, PostgreSQL data layers, Docker-based deploys on AWS EC2/S3.

PythonFastAPIReactPostgreSQLDockerAWSWhatsApp API

OPEN PROJECT · 2024

Real-time Speech-to-Text

Streaming audio pipeline

FastAPI + Whisper with chunked transcription, async preprocessing, and a low-latency WebSocket layer that doesn't drop syllables when the network blinks.

PythonFastAPIWebSocketsWhisperLibrosaNumPy

OPEN PROJECT · 2024

Tech News Intelligence Scraper

Async web scraping & classification

Async pipeline that collects, classifies, and summarizes tech news and company data. Custom content classifiers, modular services, and a regex layer that actually behaves itself.

PythonFastAPIAsyncioHTTPXBeautifulSoupRegex

Episode 04 · Field Journal

Notes from the iceberg.

Long-form writing on what Ice Bear is building, breaking, and learning. Tagged for whoever's reading.

AI · Field NotesMay 2026·5 min read

Ice Bear ships RAG: a chatbot, but make it useful

What broke, what scaled, and why Ice Bear stopped fighting the embedding store after week two. A field report from production.

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Backend · Post-mortemApr 2026·3 min read

FastAPI + WebSockets: a speech pipeline post-mortem

Whisper, asyncio, and the art of not dropping a syllable when the network blinks. What we shipped, what we'd undo, and what stays.

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ArchitectureMar 2026·2 min read

One contract, three clients: types across web, mobile, desktop

Otto talks to three clients. One source of truth, zero runtime drift — here's the contract that keeps the platforms honest.

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Python · AsyncFeb 2026·3 min read

Async scrapers: 12× throughput, zero rate-limit bans

Concurrency without disrespect. A polite-but-fast scraping template Ice Bear keeps reaching for, plus the rate-limit etiquette that keeps you online.

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DevOpsJan 2026·2 min read

Docker on EC2: a minimalist's deploy stack

Three files. No yaml soup. Ice Bear keeps the fridge cold and the deploys cold too — here's the whole stack on one page.

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Field NotesDec 2025·2 min read

18 months as an intern, in 4 lines

Lessons from pull requests, code reviews, and one very memorable rollback. A short letter to past-me, taped to the door of the iceberg.

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Episode 05 · Cold Cuts TV

Bear on a screen.

Live coding, walkthroughs, and the occasional cold take. Tune in when text isn't enough.

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EP 02Live codingRAGFastAPIVercel AI SDK

Live: a RAG chatbot in 45 minutes

Ice Bear builds a retrieval-augmented chatbot from a blank repo in forty-five minutes — recorded live, edited never. The stack is intentionally boring so you can focus on the parts that aren't.

👁 21.4k views · 🔥 trending · recorded live

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