Rhaqim
GitHub ↗

Systems Engineer Backend & Systems

I build infrastructure
other software runs on.

A USSD engine in Rust that carries banking traffic across five African markets. A media-storage library in Go that runs in production. A runtime for multi-agent systems. Six years on the software side of the hardware boundary. Now working toward the other side of it.

3 systemsGitHub ↗Email ↗
Languages
Go · Rust · Python · TypeScript · C
Data
PostgreSQL · SQLite · Redis · S3
Runtime
Docker · Kubernetes · Actix · Gin
Next
Embedded C · RTOS · embedded-hal · RF
01

Systems

Libraries other engineers install.

buckt

Media storage libraryStable

Application-layer media management for Go: folder trees, metadata, derivatives and dedup on top of any object store.

go get github.com/Rhaqim/buckt
S3GCSAzureR2SQLitePostgres
Documentation →Source ↗

ussdframework

USSD application engineActive

Declarative, JSON-driven USSD flows in Rust, with session management, validation, expression routing and a visual menu builder.

cargo add ussdframework
ActixDieselSQLitePostgresDocker
Documentation →Source ↗

loom

Multi-agent runtimeActive

Modality-agnostic orchestration for LLM applications: versioned agents, session branching, budgets, judges and a test harness.

go get github.com/rhaqim/loom
OpenAIAnthropicReplicateRunwayPostgres
Documentation →Source ↗
02

Products

Systems shipped as things people use.

CoNexus

AI storytelling engineLive

Interactive narrative platform. LLM orchestration, media pipelines and vector search behind a real-time story runtime.

GoPostgresRedisVector searchEthereum
Case study →Live ↗Source ↗

EriIfe

Artist release siteLive

Discography and release site for a recording artist. Fast, quiet, built to get out of the music's way.

Next.jsTypeScript
Case study →Live ↗
03

Experience

  1. 2024-presentCurrent

    DGRS Labs

    Lead Developer

    Built CoNexus from first commit to production, and the storage and orchestration layers it runs on.

    GoPostgresRedisDockerEthereumSvelte
  2. 2021-2024

    Equity Group Holdings

    Senior Backend Engineer

    Led the USSD loan service rollout across five African markets, serving millions of sessions daily on feature phones.

    PythonFastAPIPostgresRedisKubernetesAzure
  3. 2023-2024

    Nirvana Labs

    Full Stack Developer

    Shipped product surfaces and the REST APIs behind them at early-startup cadence.

    Next.jsNode.jsMongoDBExpress
04

Research direction

Every system on this page eventually hits a physical boundary: a radio, a disk, a telecom link, a power budget. I've spent six years on the software side of that boundary. I'm now working my way to the other side of it.

Bare-metal & RTOS

C and Rust on microcontrollers: interrupt latency, memory budgets, and scheduling under hard real-time constraints.

Open

Edge & sensing

Constrained-network protocols and on-device processing where bandwidth, power and physics set the limits.

Open

Systems programming

OS internals, network stacks, and storage engines. The layer the libraries above already live in.

In practice