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User Safety: safe — A Hands-On Build Guide for Your Portfolio

A complete build guide for ‘safe’ — a user safety filtering service that demonstrates systems engineering depth, from API design to extensibility, with real runnable code and a clear roadmap to production.

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Building a Paged KV-Cache Simulator in Pure Python: A Portfolio Project for Systems Engineers

A practical guide to implementing a paged KV-cache simulator with pluggable eviction policies, perfect for showcasing systems design abilities to hiring managers.

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Build a Mixture-of-Experts Router from Scratch: A Portfolio Project That Signals Real Systems Skill

A hands-on guide to building a mixture-of-experts router from scratch in Python, covering top-k gating, capacity factor scheduling, and load balancing loss — a CV-worthy project that signals real systems and ML engineering skill.

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User Safety: Safe — A Portfolio Project That Signals Systems Skill

Build a user safety microservice in Go that validates content, enforces rate limits, and scales horizontally — a portfolio project proving you can ship real systems.

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Hands‑On Build Guide: Sliding‑Window Context Manager with Attention‑Weighted Relevance Scoring

Learn to build a token‑aware sliding‑window context manager that keeps the most relevant prompt parts within token limits.

September 17, 2026 · 6 min · 1136 words · martinuke0
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