bahaa tantaoui

backend & systems engineer

software / infrastructure / video

morocco, working remotely

systems-oriented backend engineer, shipping since 2019. i build high-performance infrastructure, apis and developer tooling.

currently

horsing around 🐎

01-08

things that survived

  1. 01 lisp in c type / interpreter
    lang / c     a lisp interpreter written in c rel / systems, languages
  2. 02 ray-tracer type / renderer
    lang / haskell     ray tracing in one weekend, in haskell rel / graphics
  3. 03 preemptive-threads type / bare metal
    lang / rust     bare metal preemptive multithreading for the raspberry pi zero 2 w rel / systems
  4. 05 static-site-gen type / compiler
    lang / haskell     turns markdown into static html sites rel / tooling, languages
  5. 06 markov text gen type / model
    lang / haskell     bigram-based text generator rel / experiments
  6. 07 regress type / numerics
    lang / haskell     linear regression with gradient descent rel / experiments
  7. 08 brainfuck interp type / interpreter
    lang / haskell     turing-complete brainfuck interpreter rel / languages, experiments

more on github

09-14

places i've worked

  1. 09 now stealth ai startup engineer state / active
  2. 10 now personal projects dabbling in a few on the side state / active
  3. 11 now content creation videos about cs & tech state / active
  4. 12 2025 ai/ml startup full stack engineer
  5. 13 2023-2025 edtech startup senior product engineer
  6. 14 2019-2023 freelance fs engineer
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what i work with

languages 08

  • go
  • rust
  • python
  • typescript
  • haskell
  • c
  • zig
  • bash

backend 08

  • fastapi
  • flask
  • gin
  • fiber
  • grpc
  • graphql
  • websockets
  • celery

infra 07

  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • redis
  • postgresql
  • mongodb
  • kafka
  • nix

cloud 06

  • aws
  • gcp
  • terraform
  • github actions
  • prometheus
  • grafana

ai 05

  • llm apis
  • rag
  • vector dbs
  • whisper
  • ollama
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things i've saved

archive / 209 items / 16 shelves

papers, books, talks, mostly cs.

  1. 01 operating systems 14
  2. 02 computer architecture 11
  3. 03 systems programming 11
  4. 04 compilers & interpreters 12
  5. 05 programming languages & types 23
  6. 06 distributed systems 24
  7. 07 databases & storage 13
  8. 08 networking 11
  9. 09 concurrency & performance 12
  10. 10 algorithms & data structures 10
  11. 11 theory of computation 07
  12. 12 security & cryptography 11
  13. 13 graphics & games 13
  14. 14 machine learning 14
  15. 15 software design 14
  16. 16 build your own 09
see all 209
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elsewhere

email
tantaouisoftware@gmail.com
github
tantaouibahaa
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