What Finally Made MCP Click for Me
Lessons and mental models I took away from Anthropic’s MCP courses.
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Brian Goh
Presales Engineer
Software engineer turned presales engineer, curious about how things work,
why they matter, and who they help.
Projects
Personal projects I've tinkered with, out of curiosity or to solve a pain point in my life.
AI Knowledge Graph
An interactive RDF knowledge graph of AI concepts - LLMs, RAG, agentic AI, orchestration frameworks and more - queryable via a local LLM using the GraphRAG pattern, with retrieval made fully visible on the graph.
LLM
RAG
Knowledge Graphs
LLM Observatory
A self-hosted proxy and monitoring dashboard for the Anthropic API. Every LLM call flows through it, gets logged to Postgres, and surfaces in a real-time dashboard for cost, latency, and token usage.
LLM
Observability
Cost Monitoring
Spirit Island Multiplayer Monitor
Python background utility that watches Spirit Island's multiplayer log file and pings my phone over Telegram the moment someone joins my lobby, so I don't have to sit waiting in front of the PC.
Automation
Developer Tooling
Experience
Professional journey and career timeline.
Blogs
A collection of my thoughts on modern technology and industry events.
