A conceptual diagram of a user safety pipeline with input validation, classification, rule engine, and alerting stages.

User Safety: safe — A Hands-On Build Guide for a Portfolio-Worthy Systems Project

A hands-on guide to building ‘safe’, a real-time user safety engine that classifies content, applies configurable rules, and flags violations — demonstrating systems architecture, ML integration, and production-grade engineering.

September 14, 2026 · 12 min · 2401 words · martinuke0
Diagram of a hybrid retriever with sparse and dense branches feeding a reranker.

Build a Hybrid Sparse-Dense Retriever: A CV-Worthy RAG Side Project

Hands-on build guide for a hybrid sparse-dense retriever (BM25 + embedding reranking) with a from-scratch HNSW vector index. Real runnable code, architecture diagrams, and a roadmap to senior-level.

September 7, 2026 · 14 min · 2978 words · martinuke0
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