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 — Institute for Advanced Analytics and Security, USM (AQUAVIEW) (May 2025 – Present)
• Software Development Associate — ArroyoDev (Illumibot) (Oct 2025 – May 2026)

Skills

• Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Swift, 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

• Still: A macOS menu bar mixer that gives every app its own volume, mute, and output device. still.bibas.dev
• Transit Reliability Platform: Live MBTA and BART feeds turned into on-time rates, delay stats, and incident alerts. GitHub
• Reglex: Regulatory research assistant for the Mississippi Secretary of State, with cited answers across 7 states. GitHub
• Diagram Studio: A visual editor for grid diagrams that cannot overlap, shipped as one offline HTML file. diagram-studio.bibas.devGitHub
• Brainstorm Boost: On-device meeting assistant for the U.S. Navy's NIWC Pacific. Audio and transcripts never leave the machine. GitHub
• House of Hearth: Local-first finance tracker you can question in plain English, through a read-only MCP server. Live
• Calorie Tracker: Snap, say, or type a meal. Calories and macros come from real food databases, with an honest error band. GitHub
• 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