Bibas Kandel
Software Developer · data engineering & ML
I build data-heavy systems, ML pipelines, and the tools around them.
01Selected work
Selected work.
Still
A macOS menu bar mixer that gives every app its own volume, mute, and output device.
SwiftC++Core Audio
Transit Reliability Platform
Live MBTA and BART feeds turned into on-time rates, delay stats, and incident alerts.
PythonRedpanda/KafkaPostGISdbtDuckDBMinIOPrometheusGrafanaDocker
Reglex
Regulatory research assistant for the Mississippi Secretary of State, with cited answers across 7 states.
PythonAWS LambdaOpenSearchBedrockDynamoDBTextract
Diagram Studio
A visual editor for grid diagrams that cannot overlap, shipped as one offline HTML file.
JavaScriptSVGPython
Brainstorm Boost
On-device meeting assistant for the U.S. Navy's NIWC Pacific. Audio and transcripts never leave the machine.
TauriFastAPIwhisper.cppOllama
House of Hearth
Local-first finance tracker you can question in plain English, through a read-only MCP server.
FastAPIPythonReactSQLitePlaidMCPAES-GCM
Calorie Tracker
Snap, say, or type a meal. Calories and macros come from real food databases, with an honest error band.
Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseDrizzleGeminiFatSecret
02Experience
Where I’ve shipped.
AQUAVIEW
Software Developer, Institute for Advanced Analytics and Security, USM (AQUAVIEW)
Ocean-data platform serving 2.5 centuries of NOAA records to researchers.
- 3.4B-row archive moved from NetCDF to Parquet
- Multi-GB exports as sharded background jobs
- Co-work: plain-English requests become validated queries
- Partner data from GCS, S3, and ERDDAP
ArroyoDev
Software Development Associate, ArroyoDev (Illumibot)
Took Illumibot's storefront from prototype to a live marketplace.
- Checkout moved from Square to Stripe
- Shipping-rate engine with an admin dashboard
- YouTube chat to AI images on a live stream
03Stack
What I reach for.
Languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLSwiftDartC++C#
AI & ML
RAGLangGraphFastMCPChromaDBOllamaWhisperClaude CodeCodex
Backend & Data
FastAPILitestar.NETREST APIsDagsterdbtKafka / RedpandaDaskPolarsParquetPostgreSQLPostGISDuckDBDynamoDBOpenSearchSQLite
Frontend & Apps
ReactNext.jsTailwindFlutter (mobile)Tauri (desktop)
Cloud & DevOps
AWSGCPAzureSupabaseDockerTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafana
04About
About
CS student at the University of Southern Mississippi building production software across data engineering and ML. I work on cloud-native data platforms, RAG systems, and developer tooling — currently a Software Developer at the Institute for Advanced Analytics and Security (IAAS).
Now
- Shipped Still, a per-app volume mixer for the macOS menu bar.
- Building AQUAVIEW — a multi-service oceanographic data platform on GCP Cloud Run (IAAS).
- Running the Transit Reliability Platform — live MBTA/BART feeds through Redpanda, PostGIS, and dbt marts.
- Recently shipped Reglex, a production RAG system for the Mississippi Secretary of State on AWS Bedrock.
- Recently wrapped Brainstorm Boost, an AI meeting-intelligence desktop app.
- Just finished a stint at ArroyoDev building across Flutter, React, and Supabase.
Education
- The University of Southern Mississippi
- B.S. Computer Science — Minors: Mathematics, IT & Economic Data Analysis
- Expected May 2027 · GPA 4.00 / 4.00
- Academic Excellence Scholarship (Full Tuition)
- President's List (Fall 2023–Present)
Elsewhere
- GitHub ↗
- LinkedIn ↗
- contact@bibas.dev
- Hattiesburg, MS
05Contact
Send a signal.
Email is fastest: contact@bibas.dev. Or leave a note here and it goes straight to my inbox.