About

Introduction

My name is Abdul Rabbani. I am a self-educated computer scientist. Most of my knowledge has been acquired from real-world experience, books, and online resources. Because I didn’t learn technology in a classroom, I have an advantage. While classroom instruction is limited to sometimes outdated topics, I have spent my time learning practical, real-world technology from experts in the field. My experience and fields of expertise range from low-level applications and operating systems to designing, creating and scaling cloud infrastructure in an automated fashion.

Besides technology, I have a deep love for math and science. I hope to continue to grow and expand my knowledge in both fields. I also hope to grow in fields that are outside my comfort zone. As someone who grew up in love with numbers, data, and analytics, I often neglected my creative side. I will strive to become more in touch with this side by drawing, reading, writing, and dabbling in poetry.

Personal Information

Nationality: Pakistani

Current Residence: Queens

Favorite Programming Languages: Python, Go, C

Sports: Wrestling

Purpose of This Site

The main purpose of this website is for me to consolidate and keep track of my work. As I continue to learn, grow, and express myself over the years, I can easily go back and re-learn something that I wrote about years earlier. In addition, I strongly believe that writing about what you learn helps cement your knowledge and understanding. Overall, through this website, I want to capture my growth as an engineer, as a scientist, and most of all, as a person.

Finally, I created this website as a means of collaborating with people who share my interests and curiosity. If you see a topic that intrigues you, feel free to comment about things you like, dislike, agree with, disagree with, or want further explanation on. My email is linked here: abdulrabbani00@gmail.com. If you would like to connect, feel free to reach out.

Types of Posts

You’ll notice various types of posts as you go along. I will do my best to capture the type of post as a tag. Let me give you an example: My favorite branch of Mathematics is Calculus.

• Personal: I could write an article on the importance of Calculus to me and the influence it has had in my life. This type of post would be a Personal post, where I am writing about an aspect of my life.

• Opinionated: I could also write a post on how I believe all high schools should offer Calculus classes. This type of post would be an Opinionated post, where I am sharing an idea, or something that I believe.

• Factual: I could also write a post explaining the Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus. This type of post would be a Factual post, where I am explaining something (correctly I hope).

• Discovery: I may also write about a brand new finding I might have in Calculus. This type of post would be a Discovery post, where I explain my scientific discovery in thorough detail.

• Notes: I may be learning about a new topic within Calculus, and I might create a post with explanations, questions, and other notes I have about the topic. This type of post would be a Notes post (I know, very creative). This will more than likely be the most common type of post on this site.

Technical Experience

As someone who has had various roles in different organizations, I have amassed experience and expertise in many topics. I have experience in many topics, from creating and scaling large infrastructure in an automated fashion to analyzing latency and performance for low-latency trading applications. I have a broad range of knowledge, which provides me with a unique perspective in the technical field.

Currently

I am looking to find my next opportunity, and I am very excited. Now that I have spent a few years in the technical space, working in different roles, I have gotten a taste of what I like, and more importantly, what I don’t like. In addition, I have a better understanding of what is out there, which is important, considering how expansive and convoluted tech is. When I first started, I didn’t know what I didn’t know, now I know what I know, and I know what I don’t know (you might want to read that twice).

I have taken time in the last few months to grow in the technical areas that interest me the most. This includes kernel development, network programming, C, and other low-level tools and concepts. Unlike in college where you are learning the broad strokes of tech, or on the job, where you learn what you’re exposed to, I want to take the time to learn what interests me. Finally, I also plan on reading, writing, drawing, and growing in other fields that are non-technical.