I'm Taha, a software engineer based in Paris, currently in New York City working on distributed systems at Datadog.
I enjoy building systems that have to be fast, observable, and correct—especially control planes, performance tooling, interpreters, and the occasional CLI that probably did not need to become a full project.
My background is in computer science & applied mathematics at Télécom Paris, followed by an MSc focused on parallel & distributed systems at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Along the way, I've worked on ML inference at Huawei and developer/performance tooling.
focus distributed systems · systems programming · performance engineering
languages Go · Rust · C/C++ · Python · SQL
systems Linux · Docker · Kubernetes · Kafka · Redis · RPC
tools GDB · Valgrind · PMUs · CUDA · a suspicious number of tmux sessions
+ building control-plane systems for high-throughput infrastructure
+ exploring better ways to make complex systems easier to operate
+ always happy to talk about Go, performance, distributed systems, or weird CLIs- Built systems across infrastructure, ML performance, and developer tooling.
- Interested in the space where algorithms meet real machines and real constraints.
- Two-time SWERC participant.
- Based between Paris and New York City—depending on what the scheduler decided.
$ ./idkfa — definitely not an easter egg
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║ ACCESS GRANTED 64 FPS ║
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║ HEALTH 100% ARMOR 100% COFFEE [██████████░░] ║
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║ OBJECTIVE: make it fast, make it observable, ║
║ make it boring to operate. ║
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║ STATUS: NOCLIP ENABLED ║
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Achievement unlocked: you inspect things before clicking them. We would probably get along.
Thanks for stopping by. Insert coin to continue.