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Welcome to my corner of the internet. This website is a personal blog which I use as a platform to document my learning journey and showcase it for the world to see.

Illustration of a tiled self-attention block with KV cache

Building a FlashAttention-Style Tiled Self-Attention Block in NumPy

This post walks through building a FlashAttention-style tiled self-attention block in NumPy, covering online softmax, KV caching, and performance benchmarks.

Diagram of a byte-level BPE tokenizer pipeline

Building a Production-Grade Byte-Level BPE Tokenizer in Pure Python

A step-by-step guide to building a byte-level BPE tokenizer with regex pre-tokenization, trie encoding, and JSON serialization in pure Python.

User Safety: Safe-by-Design Patterns for Modern Applications

A practical guide to safe-by-design user-facing systems, covering authentication patterns, fault tolerance, and real-world failure modes at scale.

A laptop screen showing Python code and a flowchart of a tokenizer

Hands‑On BPE Tokenizer: Pure‑Python Incremental Merge Learning with Trie Lookup

This post walks you through building a from‑scratch BPE tokenizer in pure Python, complete with online incremental merge learning and a trie for fast tokenization. You’ll end up with a runnable library you can showcase on LinkedIn or a résumé.

A diagram showing the speculative decoding process with draft and target models.

Building a Speculative Decoding Engine in Pure Python: A CV-Worthy Side Project

Build a from-scratch speculative decoding engine in Python that demonstrates real systems skill. Includes a draft model, speculative sampling algorithm, and rejection sampling loop with runnable code.

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