Bibas Kandel

Software Developer

Institute for Advanced Analytics and Security, USM (AQUAVIEW) · May 2025 – Present

1. Designed an async export system that shards multi-GB queries into Cloud Tasks jobs with OIDC-authenticated workers, removing the 300-second Cloud Run ceiling on exports; now live in production.
2. Built Dagster pipelines converting the NOAA World Ocean Database (3.4B rows, 1772–2024) from NetCDF to Parquet, then compacted 540 files into 68, cutting metadata from 900 to 156 MB and ending failures on half of queries.
3. Built self-service partner ingestion: CSV-to-Parquet curation, pulls from external GCS and S3 buckets, and ERDDAP federation that indexes partner servers without copying them.
4. Developed Co-work, a LangGraph agent that turns plain-English requests into validated queries, running them on the job pipeline so results survive page refreshes.
5. Merged drifting admin and partner APIs into one identity-scoped surface, and closed an SSRF hole where bucket registration accepted cloud-metadata and internal network addresses.

Software Development Associate

ArroyoDev (Illumibot) · Oct 2025 – May 2026

1. Took Illumibot's storefront from prototype to a live marketplace with seller storefronts, cart, and buyer-seller messaging, and migrated checkout from Square to Stripe with localized international payment methods.
2. Automated multi-zone shipping quotes with a rate engine over delivery zones, box sizes, and per-item rules, plus an admin dashboard to manage them.
3. Built projection-reactions, a real-time pipeline that rate-limits YouTube-chat prompts per viewer and fans image generation out over MQTT to a WebSocket stream overlay in real time.

Still

A macOS menu bar mixer that gives every app its own volume, mute, and output device.

Transit Reliability Platform

Live MBTA and BART feeds turned into on-time rates, delay stats, and incident alerts.

Reglex

Regulatory research assistant for the Mississippi Secretary of State, with cited answers across 7 states.

Diagram Studio

A visual editor for grid diagrams that cannot overlap, shipped as one offline HTML file.

Brainstorm Boost

On-device meeting assistant for the U.S. Navy's NIWC Pacific. Audio and transcripts never leave the machine.

House of Hearth

Local-first finance tracker you can question in plain English, through a read-only MCP server.

Calorie Tracker

Snap, say, or type a meal. Calories and macros come from real food databases, with an honest error band.