# Owais (@desertthunder.dev)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/desertthunder.dev
Headline: Senior Software Engineer

## About

I'm a senior-level software engineer with a diverse background in a variety of technologies. Most recently I've been working heavily with Rust, Go, and Flutter.

## Career

- **Lead Software Engineer at Stormlight Labs** (Oct 2024 - Present)
  Full-time · Remote
- **Senior Software Engineer at Edlink** (May 2023 - Jul 2024)
  Full-time · On-site
- **Software Engineer at CampusOptics** (Feb 2022 - Mar 2023)
  Full-time · Hybrid
- **Software Engineer  at Texas Advanced Computing Center** (Oct 2019 - Feb 2022)
  Full-time · On-site

## Projects

- **Lazurite** — https://lazurite.stormlightlabs.org
  Cross platform mobile ATmosphere client
- **Marker** — https://marker.stormlightlabs.org
  ATmosphere sync enabled web browser for reading
- **Commonplace** — https://writer.stormlightlabs.org
  A markdown editor with standard.site integration
- **Big Fly** — https://bigfly.tech
  A baseball data browser and API

## Publications

- JavaScript Proxy Objects — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/28/js-proxy/
- OpenTUI's Zig Core — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/28/opentui/
- FieldStation42 — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/24/fs42/
- Orwell's Six Rules for Writing — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/23/orwell-rules/
- ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/23/ASD-STE100/
- systemd — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/23/systemd/
- User Space and Kernel Space — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/23/user-space/
- Layered Graph Drawing with the Sugiyama Framework — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/22/layer-graph-drawing/
- Snap Priority in Vector Editors — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/21/snap-algo/
- Property-Based Testing — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/21/prop-test/
- Git Attributes — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/20/gitattributes/
- GitHub Linguist — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/20/linguist/
- Graphs in Rust with petgraph — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/19/petgraph/
- The Agent Client Protocol — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/18/acp/
- Trigram Indexes — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/18/trigram/
- HTTP Entity Tags — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/16/etag/
- Shame and Avoidance — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/15/shame-avoidance/
- The WireGuard Protocol — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/15/wireguard/
- Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/12/coala/
- The Phoenix Architecture — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/12/phoenix-arch/
- Inspecting Processes with ps — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/11/ps/
- Cancellation Signals — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/11/cancellation-signal/
- Cognitive Surrender and Tri-System Theory — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/11/cognitive-surrender/
- MCP and Agent Skills — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/10/mcp-skills/
- Kierkegaard’s “Subjectivity Is Truth” — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/07/kierkegaard-subjectivity/
- Kierkegaard’s “Truth Which Is True for Me” — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/07/kierkegaard-truth/
- Vectors — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/06/vectors/
- Embeddings — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/06/embeddings/
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/06/rag/
- Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/05/irssa-ca/
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/05/ntrc-ca/
- Thurman Munson — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/02/thurman-munson/
- Bobbin — til.desertthunder.dev (Aug 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/08/01/bobbin/
- Raft — til.desertthunder.dev (Jul 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/07/22/raft/
- remotion — til.desertthunder.dev (Jul 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/07/19/remotion/
- RRB Vector — til.desertthunder.dev (Jul 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/07/18/rrb-vector/
- standard.site — til.desertthunder.dev (Jul 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/07/18/standard-site/
- CRDT — til.desertthunder.dev (Jul 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/07/17/crdt/
- PTY — til.desertthunder.dev (Jul 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/07/16/pty/
- PageRank — til.desertthunder.dev (Jul 2026) https://til.desertthunder.dev/notes/2026/07/15/pagerank/
- Web 1.0 Components — desertthunder.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://desertthunder.leaflet.pub/3mowelu54os2y
- IN SPACE — desertthunder.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://desertthunder.leaflet.pub/3mosuc53gg22j
- System 7 & Ubuntu 8 — desertthunder.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://desertthunder.leaflet.pub/3mojiacveoc2r
- Up next on markdown Z — desertthunder.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://desertthunder.leaflet.pub/3mnzk4mw5c22r
- compilers & resumania — desertthunder.leaflet.pub (Jun 2026) https://desertthunder.leaflet.pub/3mnxtbca26k2v
- Lazurite's Auth Implementation — desertthunder.leaflet.pub (May 2026) https://desertthunder.leaflet.pub/3ml5eojmrak2i
- Parsing and Lexing in F# — desertthunder.leaflet.pub (Dec 2025) https://desertthunder.leaflet.pub/3ma63k23t7c27

## Skills

### Technical
- .NET Framework
- Dart
- Flutter
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- React
- Rust
- Svelte
- TypeScript
- Vue.js
### Interpersonal
- Communication
- Research

## Education

- **University of Texas at Austin** — BSc, Microbiology  (May 2015 - Dec 2017)
- **University of Texas at Austin** — BSc, Biochemistry (Aug 2011 - May 2015)

## Languages

- English (native)
- Urdu (native)

## Links

- Resume: https://resume.desertthunder.dev
- tangled: https://tangled.org/did:plc:xg2vq45muivyy3xwatcehspu
- github: https://github.com/desertthunder