Hi! I'm Baraq. Welcome to my blog and portfolio.

I'm interested in building products, design systems, user experience, and build tooling. In my free time, I enjoy working on software projects I'm passionate about and experimenting with various creative outlets like design, writing, and music.

I'm currently building software for a mobile app startup, serving as a backend engineer and business analyst. You can find me online at GitHub, LinkedIn, or reach me by email at baraq@kamsani.me.

Blog

Work Experience

  • Business Analyst and Backend Engineer
    M2M Platform (Islamic Mobile App Startup) Aug 2024 - Present
    Developed automation tools to enhance CI workflows, including setting up linting, testing, and type coverage. Built a comprehensive multilingual Quran database with audio timestamps and metadata, and led research on Quran font technology and prayer time calculation.
    • AWS (S3 · SES · SNS · Postgres)
    • Express.js
    • TypeORM
    • Jest
    • SQLite
    • Figma

    • Projects

    • NixOS System Configurations
      Personal Project
      Created reproducible system configurations that work across Linux and macOS. Nix is a build-tool, package-manager, and operating system. I cover Nix in my first blog post.
      • A screenshot of Nix code to set up a Headscale configuration.
      • A screenshot of Headscale information shown on the server, a VPN mesh is made between a local machine and the server.
      • A screenshot of Nix applying changes to the system user's home configuration.
      • NixOS
      • nixpkgs
      • Headscale
      • Tailscale
      • POSIX Shell
      • Python
      • WireGuard
      • systemd
    • Portfolio v5
      Personal Website
      The previous iteration of my personal website. I focused on passing conformance with accessibility in browser forced colors, overall color contrast, and overall rendered output in niche contexts such as print screen and terminal browsers.
      • Screenshot of my previous website's styled link states.
      • Screenshot of my previous website in dark and light mode on desktop and mobile.
      • Screenshot of my previous website in forced colors dark mode on desktop.
      • Screenshot of my previous website in forced colors light mode on desktop.
      • Screenshot of my previous website with CSS disabled.
      • Screenshot of my previous website as it appears on the 'links' terminal browser.
      • Astro
      • UnoCSS
      • PostCSS
      • SolidJS
      • ESLint
      • TypeScript
      • MDX
    • Blockchain E-Voting with Linkable Ring Signatures
      Undergraduate Capstone Project
      A full-stack e-voting application that provides full anonymity to the voters. The system preserves the integrity and verifiability of an e-voting system, ensuring that authorities and voters cannot tamper with votes that were cast.
      • Screenshot of the login page for SentinelVote
      • Architecture diagram for SentinelVote
      • Screenshot of the admin console for SentinelVote
      • Screenshot of the cryptographically signed vote in SentinelVote
      • Go
      • SQLite
      • Hyperledger Fabric
      • Next.js
      • React
      • Tailwind
    • NinjaLive
      CodeDojo Hackathon by NinjaVan
      A web application that provides users with real-time visualization of delivery drivers' locations, offering precise timing instead of a broad delivery range.
      Logo for CodeDojo Hackathon 2023
      • Java
      • Maven
      • Spring Boot
      • Postgres
      • OpenAPI Specification
      • Next.js
      • React
      • Tailwind
      • TypeScript
    • GetGoing
      Appetizer Hackathon by Naver Cloud
      A web application that scrapes Twitter for trending words and phrases, visualizing their sentiment. This tool helps aspiring entrepreneurs identify potential startup ideas based on current trends.
      • Screenshot of GetGoing Web Application
      • Logo for Appetizer Hackathon 2022
      • Java
      • Maven
      • Spring Boot
      • Postgres
      • Hash Scraper API
      • Next.js
      • React
      • Tailwind
      • TypeScript