OWAIS_JAMIL(7) NAME Owais Jamil - Software Engineer SYNOPSIS owais_jamil [--experience] [--skills] [--projects] [--education] CONTACT Email: me@desertthunder.dev Phone: (512) 666-1737 Web: https://desertthunder.dev GitHub: https://github.com/desertthunder LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/owais-jamil Sifa: https://sifa.id/p/desertthunder.dev DESCRIPTION Senior Software Engineer EXPERIENCE Founder and Lead Software Engineer at Stormlight Labs (2024 - present) Lead Engineer of an open-source focused startup, architecting scalable systems and leading development from concept to production. Translated complex technical and product requirements into intuitive, performant, and maintainable software solutions grounded in research and user feedback Developed and optimized multi-platform applications and open-source libraries using Svelte, Rust, Go, and Flutter, applying modern software design patterns, concurrency models, and profiling for high reliability and performance Senior Software Engineer at Edlink (2023-05 - 2024-07) Technical lead and project manager for Flow, a data pipeline connecting LMS to SIS providers for schools. Adapted new data model to the API, as well as connectors for new integrations Built and designed novel system architecture around PubSub and BigQuery, and Cloud functions Ran production data workloads on GCP using Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Kubernetes, Redis, and Postgres to move school roster data reliably NestJS (with TypeScript) and Postgres in a Kubernetes cluster on GCP with Redis. Dashboard built with Vue Software Engineer at CampusOptics (2022-03 - 2023-03) Independently gathered requirements from customers and management to develop new features for a higher education Environmental Health and Safety SaaS. Built features for a React Native application while adding endpoints to the internal API Shipped Rails and Sidekiq services on AWS ECS, tuning container tasks, background jobs, and Postgres-backed workflows for campus safety teams Complete Stack: Redis for Sidekiq, Ruby on Rails monolith, and Postgres deployed to AWS Elastic Container Service Software Engineer at Texas Advanced Computing Center (2019-10 - 2022-03) Architected the Frontera User Portal, the first implementation of the Core Experience Portal v2. Built with React, Django, and Postgres Developed SEO optimization strategy and publication pipeline update on DesignSafe-CI Advocated for and improved internal testing practices and implemented Pytest for Core V2 SKILLS Languages Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, SQL, Rust, Dart Technologies Django, React, React Native, Flutter, Svelte, Vue, Rails, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Postgres Professional Interests Linux, Software Architecture, R, F#, OCaml, Mobile Development, Solid.js, Compilers PROJECTS Volkara (https://volkara.stormlightlabs.org) Cross-platform ADHD focused productivity app Deployed a local-first SvelteKit application using PGlite and Drizzle, achieving sub-100 ms offline UX with deterministic data consistency Designed and implemented a premium sync engine with queued operations, SHA-256 diffing, and a network-aware worker Unified observability across web and worker contexts via session-scoped & GDPR compliant telemetry Regulus (https://github.com/desertthunder/regulus) Experimental Gleam to WebAssembly compiler Built a Rust compiler pipeline that parses Gleam with tree-sitter, owns its AST, resolves names, type checks a supported subset, lowers to core IR, and emits deterministic WebAssembly Implemented support for scalar values, managed runtime values, pattern matching, closures, selected standard library modules, host imports, and whole-project linked output Validated compiler behavior with source-span diagnostics, optional WAT rendering, and Wasmtime tests for scalar and managed-value exports Tempest (https://github.com/desertthunder/tempest) Self-hostable AT Protocol Personal Data Server Built an Elixir/Phoenix PDS with account, repository, blob, access, security, migration, sequencer, and firehose operator tooling Implemented local development storage backed by SQLite databases and configurable blob limits, hostname, public URL, DID method, and crawler settings Maintained admin status and compatibility tooling for AT Protocol endpoint coverage, plus built-in documentation, changelog, and development email previews Beacon (https://stormlightlabs.github.io/beacon) Python Type Checker and Language Server Architected Rust-based LSP implementation with Hindley-Milner type inference engine Implemented comprehensive code intelligence including real-time diagnostics and type narrowing via control flow analysis Built refactoring suite with workspace-wide renaming validation and automated quick fixes Designed incremental analysis architecture with multi-layer caching supporting VS Code, Zed, Neovim, and Helix Lazurite (https://github.com/stormlightlabs/lazurite) Cross-platform Bluesky and Blacksky client Built Flutter/Dart mobile client for iOS and Android with Material 3 design Implemented AT Protocol features including timelines, feeds, post composition, moderation tools, and account switching Designed Drift-backed local cache with offline-aware screens, drafts, saved posts, and semantic search MarkdownZ (https://codeberg.org/desertthunder/markdownz) CommonMark-compliant Markdown parser and event API Built Zig Markdown engine with AST-first and pull-event APIs for renderers, formatters, and low-allocation integrations Implemented multi-dialect parsing with HTML rendering and URL sanitization controls Full CommonMark and GFM spec compliance with integrated conformance corpora Marker (https://github.com/stormlightlabs/marker) Ad-free mobile browser for reading and annotating Built Flutter/Dart browser with WebView-based text selection, highlighting, underlining, and note creation Implemented persistent annotations using layered W3C-inspired selectors for graceful anchoring across DOM changes Designed local-first state architecture with Riverpod, Drift/SQLite, go_router, and injected JavaScript bridge Big Fly (https://bigfly.tech) Comprehensive Baseball Statistics REST API Built RESTful API with Go and PostgreSQL serving historical data from Lahman Database and Retrosheet Implemented advanced analytics including win probability calculations from 2,143 unique game states Designed trigger-maintained search vectors with GIN/trigram indexes enabling sub-millisecond queries Architected ETL pipeline with materialized views and comprehensive Swagger/OpenAPI documentation Noteleaf (https://github.com/stormlightlabs/noteleaf) Unified Personal Productivity CLI Architected terminal-native productivity system combining task management, note-taking, and media tracking Implemented repository pattern with SQLite persistence and Cobra CLI framework Built article parser with Colly and goquery for web scraping EDUCATION University of Texas at Austin (2022 - present) Master of Science Computer Science University of Texas at Austin (2015 - 2017) Bachelor of Science Microbiology University of Texas at Austin (2011 - 2015) Bachelor of Science Biochemistry SEE ALSO resume.pdf(7), desertthunder.dev(7) 2026 OWAIS_JAMIL(7)