OWAIS_JAMIL(7) NAME Owais Jamil - Senior 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 Software engineer with a background in research, now building software systems and AI-forward products. EXPERIENCE Founder and Lead Software Engineer at Stormlight Labs (2024 - present) Founded and led an open-source-focused software studio, taking products from concept through production across multiple platforms. Turned research, user feedback, and complex product requirements into maintainable software with clear, practical user workflows Shipped and tuned multi-platform applications and open-source libraries in Svelte, Rust, Go, and Flutter, using concurrency design and profiling to improve reliability and runtime performance Senior Software Engineer at Edlink (2023-05 - 2024-07) Led Flow as a production data pipeline connecting learning-management and student-information systems for school roster data. Extended Flow’s data model and API contracts to support new LMS and SIS integrations Designed an event-driven Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and BigQuery architecture that made school roster data durable, queryable, and easier to process across integrations Ran production roster-data workloads across Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Kubernetes, Redis, and Postgres, giving school integrations a reliable path from source systems to downstream consumers Delivered the Flow service in NestJS and TypeScript with Postgres, Redis, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud, plus a Vue dashboard for pipeline operations Software Engineer at CampusOptics (2022-03 - 2023-03) Owned feature delivery for a higher-education environmental health and safety SaaS, from customer and management requirements through release. Delivered React Native features and the API endpoints behind them, expanding mobile workflows for campus safety teams Improved Rails and Sidekiq services on AWS ECS by tuning container tasks, background jobs, and Postgres workflows, keeping campus safety operations dependable Kept the Rails monolith, Sidekiq and Redis jobs, and Postgres services aligned on AWS ECS, providing a stable base for customer-facing releases Software Engineer at Texas Advanced Computing Center (2019-10 - 2022-03) Architected and delivered the Frontera User Portal as the first implementation of Core Experience Portal v2. Delivered the portal across React, Django, and Postgres, turning the Core Experience Portal v2 design into a working user-facing system Improved DesignSafe-CI’s discoverability by developing an SEO strategy and updating its publication pipeline Introduced Pytest coverage for Core v2 and strengthened internal testing practices, giving the team a repeatable way to catch regressions 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 SKILLS Languages Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, SQL, Rust, Dart, ML Languages (OCaml, F#, Gleam) Technologies Django, React, React Native, Flutter, Svelte, Vue, Rails, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Postgres, AWS, GCP AI LLMs, Model Context Protocol, Agent Client Protocol, Anthropic & OpenAI APIs, Agent Context & Skills PROJECTS THNDRS (https://github.com/stormlightlabs/thunderus) Terminal AI pair programmer and agentic coding harness Built a Rust terminal AI pair programmer with a custom TUI, streaming reasoning and tool activity, persistent session history, and project context loading from AGENTS.md and SKILL.md files Implemented provider adapters for Umans.ai and OpenCode Go with OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible tool schemas, model configuration, usage tracking, and provider-native or Exa-backed web search modes Designed bounded local tool execution, MCP tool discovery and dispatch, and Agent Client Protocol support so external agents, editors, and IDEs can drive the harness with auditable permission behavior 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 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 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 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 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 SEE ALSO resume.pdf(7), desertthunder.dev(7) 2026 OWAIS_JAMIL(7)