Saad Bukhari
Whole systems engineer. Actively building reliable stuff.
I build complex systems end to end, from storage engines to App Store apps. Five years in, and still learning most of the time.
Currently working on
MemRabbit, a storage engine that implements the Redis 8 wire protocol and keeps every key in a few dozen bytes. Redis’s new licenses don’t allow shipping it inside proprietary products, so MemRabbit fills the gap as open source under AGPL.
Side quest: a fully working B2B2C education platform with OIDC and LDAP sign-in, role-based access control, and multi-tenant isolation on one codebase.
Selected work
- ZakiFood app for iOS and Android. The hard part was the data: I built a pipeline that classified and refined 10k+ recipes until the nutrition engine could trust them. On top of it sit pantry tracking, recipes suggested from what you already have, and weekly planning down to one shopping list, with a clean, intelligent dashboard.
App Store
Google Play - ShelfLocal-first file search for Linux. Plain-language queries over a SQLite index with FTS5, with every capability available from the CLI.
- Secret Keeper VaultPassword vault in Go with AES-256, Argon2id, and a REST API.
- Go starter kitMiddleware, observability, clean architecture, and OIDC for production services.
- Next.js SaaS kitsSelf-hosted auth, tRPC, Stripe, and transactional mail.
Tools and skills
Go, TypeScript, Rust, Swift, Python, Java, Kotlin, and C. React, Next.js, Tailwind, React Native, Expo, Svelte, and Tauri for product work. PostgreSQL by default, ClickHouse for real-time analytics.
The tool follows the job: Go when speed decides, Rust for systems work, TypeScript for the web. I self-host where it makes sense, and I run what I ship.
Communication: English, professional proficiency.
Learning
It started with a book, then YouTube, then Stack Overflow once I began building things. Back then, Googling was the number one skill. I used Frontend Masters for learning, and The Primeagen’s “The Last Algorithm Course You’ll Need” really was my last one. Data structures were boring by the end, and they made me more creative.
AI makes writing code cheaper than ever.
So code is cheap, but genuine understanding is unavoidably rare and expensive.
Contact
If you’re hiring for someone who figures it out, builds it, ships it, and keeps it running, let’s talk.
Open to remote work. Flexible across time zones.