hey there

I'm Osama.

Software engineer working across data, applied AI, distributed systems and full stack product. I like understanding things from first principles and owning them from the first sketch to production.

Built things at
  • CIBC
  • Huawei
  • Ivey Business School
the good stories don't fit on a website.ask me โ†’

The path so far

How I got here.

growing upschool & workthings I built
  1. Bornthe story starts
  2. A lot of gamesCaptain ClawRed Alert 2Jazz Jackrabbitclaw, red alert 2, jazz
  3. Minecraftmy first building tool
  4. Got hackedlesson learned the hard way
  5. Fell into computersnever climbed back out
  6. WesternComputer Sciencewhere it got serious
  7. IveySoftware Developerdistrust manual checks
  8. HuaweiSoftware Engineerresearch had to ship
  9. CIBCSoftware Engineerthe fun part is the archaeology
  10. What's next?could be something with you

Selected work

Things I've shipped, researched and written.

Read the blog

An agentic health companion. It turns meals, sleep, supplements and labs into analysis you can actually inspect.

  • Swift
  • TypeScript
  • LLM agents
Project notes

OutHives

A marketplace for getting things done, built end to end.

Project notes

OutBlue

GenAI that makes ideas easier to explore and remember.

Project notes

Research

Raven

Personalized creative generation with hierarchical LLMs, built with privacy in mind.

Read the notes

Essay

Less benchmarks, better chatbots.

Why chatbots should compete on experience, not leaderboard points.

Side project

JobMaxxing

An AI sidekick for job applications.

Project notes

Toolbox

What I build with.

go on, press a few keys

osama@home ~ % press any key
languages
ai & agents
web & apps
data & analytics
cloud & infra

Let's connect

Say hi.

Open to relocating. When I'm not at a keyboard I'm probably fishing or outside somewhere green. Happy to chat about anything.

fishing
fishing
growing things
growing things
evenings like this
evenings like this
that's me, say hi
that's me, say hi