Systems

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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.

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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.

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Build a Byte-Level BPE Tokenizer From Scratch: A Portfolio Project That Actually Signals Systems Skill

Ship a production-flavored BPE tokenizer end to end: byte-level pretokenization, regex splitting, merge learning, and a Tkinter visualization that animates each merge so you can actually see vocabulary grow.

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Building a Paged KV Cache Manager with Prefix Sharing and Copy-on-Write

Build a from-scratch paged KV cache manager for LLM inference, with block-level prefix sharing and copy-on-write semantics. A real systems project for your CV.

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Build a Continuous Batching LLM Scheduler From Scratch

Ship a working continuous batching scheduler with paged KV cache and dynamic request interleaving. Real Python, runnable locally, and a roadmap from toy to production-flavored.