Production Ownership
I like work where correctness is visible: financial records reconcile, integrations recover, operators can understand failures, and performance is measured instead of assumed.
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about
Hey! I'm Ismaeel Akram, a Computer Engineering student at New York University and a software engineer.
Most of my shipped work has been in backend platforms, financial workflows, cloud infrastructure, and systems that still have to behave correctly when the happy path ends. Outside work, I build Linux drivers and lower-level C and C++ projects and spend more time thinking about profiling, synchronization, data layout, and numerical behavior.
I'm building the evidence to move further into low-level performance and quantitative engineering. This site is the record of both halves: the production work I've shipped and the lower-level direction I'm earning through projects and study.
Education
New York University
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering · Mathematics minor
Aug 2024 – May 2028
Coursework includes computer architecture, algorithms, linear algebra, probability and statistics, and circuits. I use projects to connect those foundations to real software behavior.
Technical Skills
Systems & Performance
C++, C, Python, Linux, libFUSE, POSIX interfaces, perf, flame graphs
Production Backends
Python, Go, SQL, REST, GraphQL, billing and ledger workflows, integrations
Cloud & Platform
AWS, Google Cloud, event-driven services, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes
Data & Quantitative Foundations
Algorithms, linear algebra, probability and statistics, profiling, measurement
Web & Commerce
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Shopify, Liquid, responsive product interfaces
Developer Tools
GitHub Actions, scripting, agent tooling, Obsidian, reproducible workflows
What I Do
Closer to the Machine
My current project work centers on filesystems, C and C++, data movement, profiling, and the mathematical foundations behind performance-sensitive software.
Selected Evidence
Production systems where correctness and latency matter
Storage operations, financial workflows, marketplace infrastructure, and external integrations
iCloud Linux
An open-source Linux/libFUSE filesystem with persistent caching, background hydration, synchronization, and real community use
Computer Engineering and Mathematics
Coursework in architecture, algorithms, linear algebra, probability and statistics, and circuits
First place, IBM GenAI Hackathon
Built a student-query language model prototype as a team project
How I Work
I like technical writing that starts with a real failure or decision, then explains what changed. The same applies to code: I care more about measured behavior and explicit tradeoffs than impressive labels.
If you're working on systems, infrastructure, performance, or quantitative software and want someone who already knows how to own production work, reach out.