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Owais

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@desertthunder.dev

Senior Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer at Stormlight Labs

AustinTexasUnited States🇺🇸
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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: 4

Lead Software Engineer

Stormlight Labs

Full-time · Remote

Oct 2024 - Present

Senior Software Engineer

Edlink

Full-time · On-site

May 2023 - Jul 2024

Software Engineer

CampusOptics

Full-time · Hybrid

Feb 2022 - Mar 2023

Software Engineer

Texas Advanced Computing Center

Full-time · On-site

Oct 2019 - Feb 2022

Projects: 4

lazurite.stormlightlabs.org

Cross platform mobile ATmosphere client

marker.stormlightlabs.org

ATmosphere sync enabled web browser for reading

writer.stormlightlabs.org

A markdown editor with standard.site integration

bigfly.tech

A baseball data browser and API

Publications: 47

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JavaScript Proxy Objects

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OpenTUI's Zig Core

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FieldStation42

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Orwell's Six Rules for Writing

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Aug 2026

ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

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Aug 2026

systemd

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User Space and Kernel Space

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Snap Priority in Vector Editors

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Aug 2026

Property-Based Testing

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Aug 2026

Git Attributes

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Aug 2026

GitHub Linguist

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Aug 2026

Graphs in Rust with petgraph

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Aug 2026

The Agent Client Protocol

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Aug 2026

Trigram Indexes

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HTTP Entity Tags

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Aug 2026

Shame and Avoidance

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The WireGuard Protocol

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Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents

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Aug 2026

The Phoenix Architecture

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Aug 2026

Inspecting Processes with ps

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Aug 2026

Cancellation Signals

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Aug 2026

Cognitive Surrender and Tri-System Theory

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Aug 2026

MCP and Agent Skills

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Aug 2026

Kierkegaard’s “Subjectivity Is Truth”

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Aug 2026

Vectors

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Embeddings

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Aug 2026

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

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Thurman Munson

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Bobbin

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Raft

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remotion

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RRB Vector

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standard.site

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CRDT

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PTY

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PageRank

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Web 1.0 Components

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IN SPACE

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System 7 & Ubuntu 8

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Jun 2026

Up next on markdown Z

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Jun 2026

compilers & resumania

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Jun 2026

Lazurite's Auth Implementation

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May 2026

Parsing and Lexing in F#

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Dec 2025

Skills: 12

Technical

.NET FrameworkDartFlutterGoPostgreSQLReactRustSvelte
TypeScriptVue.js

Interpersonal

CommunicationResearch

Education: 2

University of Texas at Austin

BSc, Microbiology

May 2015 - Dec 2017

University of Texas at Austin

BSc, Biochemistry

Aug 2011 - May 2015

Languages: 2

English(Native or bilingual)
Urdu(Native or bilingual)

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