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Software engineer who rebuilds the stack to understand it.

I'm Ibrahim Mohamed. Raft consensus, a Kafka-style broker, binary wire protocols — written from scratch. Now going deeper into security, cloud & SRE, and ML systems.

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now

Software Engineer · Pirates — Ahoy

education

B.Sc. CS · Ain Shams University

focus

Systems · Security · Cloud/SRE · ML

github

@G1DO — 12+ public repos →

~/projects — selected

All 15 projects →

go · networking

API Gateway

A reverse proxy and traffic-control layer built from first principles — routing, load balancing, health checks, and resilience.

Case study → go · linux

Container Runtime

A Linux container runtime built from raw syscalls in Go — namespaces, cgroups v2, pivot_root, and netlink, with zero dependencies.

Case study → rust · storage

Storage Engine

An LSM-tree key-value store built from scratch in Rust — memtables, WAL, SSTables, bloom filters, and compaction.

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~/blog — latest

Building a container runtime from raw syscalls in Go Raft, explained by building it Building an LSM-tree storage engine in Rust

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