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Building a Personal Event-Driven Data Pipeline: A Portfolio Project for Systems Engineers

Learn to build a scalable, event-driven personal data pipeline using FastAPI, Kafka, and PostgreSQL — a portfolio project that signals senior-level systems thinking.

September 8, 2026 · 8 min · 1637 words · martinuke0
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Building a Production-Grade Model Quantizer for Your Portfolio

A step-by-step guide to building a model quantizer that shrinks neural networks for edge deployment, demonstrating systems engineering skills to recruiters.

September 8, 2026 · 10 min · 2033 words · martinuke0
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From-Scratch Transformer Language Model: A Hands‑On Portfolio Project

A hands‑on guide to building a minimal GPT‑style model from scratch, with runnable code, testing, and extension ideas for a standout portfolio project.

September 8, 2026 · 9 min · 1885 words · martinuke0
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Build a Paged KV Cache Manager From Scratch: A Portfolio Project That Signals Real Systems Skill

Step-by-step build of a real, runnable paged KV cache manager in Python: blocks, block tables, prefix sharing via a radix tree, copy-on-write for beam search, plus a roadmap to senior-level extensions.

September 7, 2026 · 13 min · 2661 words · martinuke0
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Building a Sliding-Window Attention Manager from Scratch

A from-scratch, runnable Python project that mimics the memory management at the heart of modern LLMs: sliding-window attention with dynamic eviction and a prefix-cache KV store. Includes architecture, code, tests, and a roadmap to senior-level.

September 6, 2026 · 14 min · 2843 words · martinuke0
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