Bibas Kandel

Software Developer · Hattiesburg, MS · contact@bibas.dev

Education

B.S. Computer Science — Minors: Mathematics, IT & Economic Data Analysis — The University of Southern Mississippi (Expected May 2027); GPA 4.00 / 4.00

Experience

Software Developer, AQUAVIEW (Data Engineering & ML) — Institute for Advanced Analytics and Security (IAAS) · May 2025 – Present

Eliminated request timeouts on 20GB+ exports by architecting an async system with query sharding, queued execution, retries, and secured service-to-service routing.
Engineered Dagster pipelines for AQUAVIEW's data lake, transforming 2.5 centuries of NOAA records (3.4B+ rows) into partitioned Parquet optimized for scan-time pruning.
Developed a natural-language data agent that cut ocean-data lookups from minutes to seconds by generating validated queries, CSV/Parquet exports, and runnable Colab notebooks.
Automated partner-data ingestion with AQUAVIEW's BYOD pipeline, converting CSVs to queryable Parquet and syncing external GCS data to save hours of manual work.

Software Development Associate — ArroyoDev · Oct 2025 – May 2026

Took Illumibot's storefront from prototype to a live store, growing site traffic 20%, by building its marketplace, cart, and buyer-seller messaging.
Expanded global checkout to 135+ currencies and lifted online conversion 10% by architecting a migration from Square to Stripe with localized international payment methods.
Cut 2 hours of daily manual work by automating multi-zone shipping quotes with a rate engine over delivery zones, box sizes, and per-item rules, plus an admin dashboard to manage them.
Raised live-stream engagement by 15% by building projection-reactions, rendering AI-generated images from viewers' YouTube-chat messages onto the stream overlay in real time.

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.

Reglex — Production RAG system for the Mississippi Secretary of State over 700+ statutes and regulations across 7 states.

Brainstorm Boost — On-device AI meeting assistant that turns recordings into ranked topics, decisions, action items, and speaker-attributed insights.

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.

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.

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