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User Safety: safe — A Hands-On Build Guide for Systems Engineers

A complete build guide for a User Safety monitoring system — ‘safe’ — that demonstrates distributed event processing, real-time alerting, and fault tolerance. Includes architecture diagrams, runnable Python code, and a senior-level extension roadmap.

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Speculative Decoding Engine with Draft-Model Verification and KV-Cache Sharing in Pure Python

This guide walks through building a speculative decoding engine in pure Python, including draft-model verification and KV-cache sharing. It’s ideal for showcasing systems skills to hiring managers.

September 19, 2026 · 8 min · 1589 words · martinuke0
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Reversible Byte-Level BPE Tokenizer Trainer with Streaming Merge Accumulation

A hands‑on guide to training a byte‑level BPE tokenizer from scratch, with streaming merge accumulation and byte‑exact roundtrip testing, perfect for demonstrating systems engineering skill.

September 19, 2026 · 10 min · 1993 words · martinuke0
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Building a Pure-Python IVF-PQ Vector Index with On-Disk Storage for RAG Pipelines

This guide walks through implementing an IVF‑PQ index in pure Python, storing data on disk and integrating it into a RAG pipeline for sub‑second similarity search.

September 19, 2026 · 2 min · 358 words · martinuke0
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Building a HNSW Vector Index from Scratch in Python

Learn to build a HNSW‑based vector index from scratch, demonstrating systems skills that catch hiring managers’ eyes.

September 19, 2026 · 4 min · 821 words · martinuke0
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