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Adnan Ahmed

Backend Engineer · Competitive Programmer · A2SV

Building production backend systems across half a dozen stacks while training for competitive programming through A2SV — currently finishing a CS degree at Addis Ababa University.

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I'm a backend engineer who thinks in systems — request lifecycles, data models, the boring plumbing that has to hold up when nobody's looking. Most of what I know, I've built the hard way: ship something real, hit a wall, go one layer deeper.

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TutorLink

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A MERN platform connecting students with tutors for on-demand and scheduled sessions.

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Hand-built versions of core Linux introspection tools: a process monitor, a syscall tracer, a network inspector, and a process supervisor.

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Jun 15, 2026 · 3 min read

Why I'm Building 6 Backend Projects in 6 Different Stacks

Depth in one stack is necessary. It isn't sufficient if you've never felt a different stack's tradeoffs against your own skin. Notes on a deliberately polyglot roadmap.

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