Systems Engineering

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

Build a User Safety System: A Hands-On Side Project That Signals Real Systems Skill

A complete build guide for a User Safety side project that demonstrates event-driven architecture, real-time policy enforcement, and observability — skills hiring managers actively look for in senior backend and platform engineering roles.

A distributed task queue architecture diagram showing brokers, workers, and persistent storage layers.

Build a Distributed Task Queue From Scratch: A Portfolio Project That Signals Senior Systems Skill

A hands-on guide to building a distributed task queue from scratch — covering persistence, retry logic, dead letter queues, and a web dashboard — as a portfolio project that signals real systems engineering ability.

A visualization of memory blocks and tokens in a neural network inference engine

Building a Mini LLM Inference Engine in Pure Python

A hands-on guide to building a mini LLM inference engine featuring PagedAttention and advanced KV cache management, designed to demonstrate production-grade systems architecture on your CV.

Code editor showing a tokenizer implementation with merge queue diagrams

Build a Streaming Byte-Level BPE Tokenizer: A Portfolio Project That Signals Real Systems Skill

A hands-on build guide for a streaming byte-level BPE tokenizer with persistent merge queues, atomic byte-loss tracking, and reversible byte fallback for arbitrary Unicode.

A visualization of paged attention memory blocks arranged in a cache hierarchy with eviction pointers

Build a Paged Attention KV-Cache Manager with LRU Eviction in Pure Python

A hands-on build guide for a paged attention KV-cache manager with LRU eviction in pure Python — a portfolio project that demonstrates LLM inference systems knowledge and signals senior-level engineering capability.