Bibas Kandel — Software Developer

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).

Experience

• Software Developer, AQUAVIEW (Data Engineering & ML) — Institute for Advanced Analytics and Security (IAAS) (May 2025 – Present)
• Software Development Associate — ArroyoDev (Oct 2025 – May 2026)

Skills

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Dart, C++, C#
• AI & ML: RAG, LangGraph, FastMCP, ChromaDB, Ollama, Whisper, Claude Code, Codex
• Backend & Data: FastAPI, Litestar, .NET, REST APIs, Dagster, dbt, Kafka / Redpanda, Dask, Polars, Parquet, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, DuckDB, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, SQLite
• Frontend & Apps: React, Next.js, Tailwind, Flutter (mobile), Tauri (desktop)
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, GCP, Azure, Supabase, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Prometheus, Grafana

Projects

• Transit Reliability Platform: Streaming data platform that turns live GTFS-realtime transit feeds into on-time-performance metrics — 14 self-hosted services from ingestion through dbt marts, SLO alerting, and a live map. Live
• Reglex: Production RAG system for the Mississippi Secretary of State over 700+ statutes and regulations across 7 states. GitHub
• Brainstorm Boost: On-device AI meeting assistant that turns recordings into ranked topics, decisions, action items, and speaker-attributed insights. GitHub
• House of Hearth: Local-first personal finance tracker you can query in plain English — Plaid-linked accounts in a single local SQLite file, with a read-only MCP server that lets Claude answer questions about your money. Live
• Calorie Tracker: Multimodal, provenance-first nutrition tracker — snap, speak, or type a meal and get calories and macros with an honest error band, every number traced to a real food database instead of an LLM guess.
• Manimator: Web interface for creating programmatic animations using Manim, served via a Flask backend. GitHub
• Sudoku Solver: Desktop Sudoku solver with a dark-themed Qt6 GUI that cracks puzzles using a Ternary Search Tree algorithm. GitHub
• Proofpatch(private): GitHub App that runs execution-backed verification checks on pull requests.
• pingbase(private): Uptime monitoring service with scheduled HTTP checks, heartbeat monitors, status pages, and alert channels.
• File_RAG: RAG application for uploading PDF documents and querying them via natural language using ChromaDB and OpenAI. GitHub
• Messaging_App(private): Messaging application built with Go.
• SLM_Code_Review_Assistant(private): FastAPI service that routes code to a local Ollama/CodeLlama model for automated code review suggestions.

Contact

contact@bibas.dev