A terminal dashboard showing real-time user safety metrics and anomaly alerts

User Safety: safe — A Hands-On Build Guide for a Systems-Level Side Project

A hands-on guide to building ‘safe,’ a user safety gateway in Go that demonstrates rate limiting, anomaly detection, and observability — skills hiring managers actively look for in senior systems roles.

September 13, 2026 · 12 min · 2537 words · martinuke0
Illustration of a secure user‑safety gateway

Hands‑On: Building a User‑Safety Service for Your Portfolio

Learn how to construct a Go‑based user‑safety service from scratch, complete with rate limiting, policy checks, and observability, and add it to your CV as a real‑world project.

September 11, 2026 · 8 min · 1618 words · martinuke0
Neural network weights and code editor representing QLoRA fine‑tuning.

Hands-On Build Guide: QLoRA Fine‑Tuner From Scratch in PyTorch with NF4 Quantization and LoRA Merging

A step‑by‑step guide to training a quantized LLaMA‑style model with QLoRA, merging LoRA adapters, and packaging the result as a portable CV asset.

September 11, 2026 · 7 min · 1333 words · martinuke0
Feature flag service architecture diagram with Go backend, Redis cache, and React frontend

Build a Production-Ready Feature Flag Service for Your Portfolio

Build a local-first feature flag service in Go with Redis backing, React UI, and observability — a concrete portfolio project that demonstrates real systems engineering skills.

September 11, 2026 · 4 min · 666 words · martinuke0

Hands-On Build Guide: Pure‑Python GGUF Weight Loader with Lazy Memory‑Mapped Tensor Initialization

A step‑by‑step guide to creating a pure‑Python GGUF weight loader that lazily memory‑maps tensors, perfect for demonstrating low‑level Python systems skills on a CV.

September 10, 2026 · 2 min · 232 words · martinuke0
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