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Ashish Jha
TheDreamSaver

Behind the handle

Not a name I gave myself.

Nearly six years freelance, four hundred-odd clients, and the same line kept turning up in the reviews: you saved my dream project. After a few hundred of those I stopped arguing and made it the handle. It has been every username I own since.

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Writing / 2018–2026

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Ideas,
written down.

On the systems we build,
the access we give them,
and the things we try anyway.

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The latest essay Written here

What a small database experiment taught me about limiting an AI assistant’s access, and why an allowed reply can still be wrong.

7 min readAgents & identity
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Permission is not proof of a safe decision
5 limits. 3 open questions.

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10 published pieces.
Newest first, wherever they live.

All 10 pieces

  1. Agents & identity

    On this site7 min read

    Least privilege is not injection prevention

    What a small database experiment taught me about limiting an AI assistant’s access, and why an allowed reply can still be wrong.

    Published 18 October 2026.

  2. Agents & identity

    dev.to5 min read

    SmartSpend: agentic expense management with fine-grained authorization

    An expense-management app where an agent follows the user’s approval permissions. Built for a development challenge.

  3. Agents & identity

    Couchbase Engineering11 min read

    Securing Agentic/RAG Pipelines with Fine-Grained Authorization

    Applying fine-grained authorization to agentic and RAG pipelines. Written with Shivay Lamba.

  4. Agents & identity

    Medium

    Using Amazon DynamoDB as a Custom Database Connection in Auth0

    Connecting an existing DynamoDB user store to Auth0 while keeping the records in place.

    Auth0 ran it in the Zero Index newsletter, May 2024.

  5. Agents & identity

    Medium

    Stream Auth0 Logs to Amazon CloudWatch using Amazon EventBridge

    Sending Auth0 login events to CloudWatch through EventBridge.

    Shared from Auth0’s own account.

  6. Voice & building

    Medium

    Easily Share Your Alexa Skill with AWS CloudFormation and Save Time

    Packaging an Alexa skill’s infrastructure in a CloudFormation template so other developers can deploy it.

  7. Voice & building

    Medium

    Different AWS services used for building Alexa skills

    The AWS services I used to build and run Alexa skills, and what each one does.

  8. Life & looking back

    Medium

    2019: Year in Review of a VUI Dev

    The annual-retrospective habit, already formed at twenty-one. In the original title “Alexa” is struck through and replaced with “VUI”, which was the whole point of the year.

  9. Life & looking back

    Medium7 min read

    Living Life on The Edge!

    The EdgeWalk at the CN Tower, written up after my first trip abroad. It opens “I have always been super scared of heights,” and that is still the only thing I have published about being frightened.

  10. Voice & building

    Medium

    Which one’s better, Google Home or Alexa?

    The first thing I ever published. Six months into building for one of them, which tells you the answer I gave.

9 pieces live elsewhere. Each link names its publication.
The original dates, words, and credits stay with the work.

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