Engineer. Leader. Always learning.
Software.Systems.Human judgment.
I'm Adnan Rafiq, a VP of Technology in Boston. I write about building software, leading teams, and making sense of what comes next.
Featured essay2026 / 01
Even agents
need discipline.
What changes when teams become AI first—and which engineering principles still matter?
01 / THE ENGINEERING
Worth going deep.
Practical ideas, explored beyond the surface.
Architecture
A tale of migrating an ASP.NET Framework 4.x application to ASP.NET 6
The .NET migration from ASP.NET Framework 4.x to ASP.NET6 or upcoming ASP.NET8 is going to be on the rise in the next few years due to different reasons. Your reasons may vary from pure.
.NET & C#Who calls Dispose in .NET and how Finalization works in .NET
Read the below code to answer the questions that follow the code.
.NET & C#Understanding C# Channels and testing Channels in ASP.NET Core Application
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The personal part
A few places.
A lot of perspective.
From studying by lantern light in a village in Pakistan to building software in Boston. The places change. The curiosity stays.
More about my journey
Where it began
The first chapter
A leap of faith
A place to call home