Omar
El Jamal

Bare-metal Kubernetes homelab on Talos Linux, fully driven by GitOps via FluxCD. Ceph storage, HA Postgres, encrypted secrets, internal CA, documented incident postmortems.

Adversarial-ML research library + dashboard — FGSM/PGD/Carlini-Wagner/patch attacks and a custom routing-based defense. ~17.5K lines, HPC sweeps via Optuna + SLURM.

Cellular-network telemetry collector: Kotlin/Compose Android app → FastAPI + Postgres backend, JWT auth, signed-APK CI, Helm chart, 359-line test suite.

6 Node.js microservices with deliberate polyglot persistence (Postgres / DynamoDB / S3+SES+SQS), backed by 3,508 lines of Terraform on AWS. Also the EECE503Q capstone.

Self-hosted Kubernetes "life management" platform — 10 services (Trilium, Vikunja, Plane, Nextcloud, Firefly III…) wired behind Authentik SSO with n8n automation.

Self-hosted GitLab provisioning from a blank page — libvirt/KVM VMs + Docker + WireGuard + iVentoy PXE across homelab/dev/prod inventories. 11 roles, 11 playbooks.

Self-hosted service-deployment toolkit — GitLab, Traefik, OpenLDAP, Vaultwarden, Nginx, Proxpi via 6 from-scratch Ansible roles. Several were later ported into hpccluster.

Two-tier AWS web-app architecture (VPC, dual ALB+ASG stacks, NAT gateway, bastion, SSM-based secrets) — 873 lines of clean Terraform written and committed in one shot.

Standalone Python CLI that aggregates GitLab time-tracking by parsing /spend quick-actions out of issue notes via the glab API — event-accurate, not issue-total based.

A kind (Kubernetes-in-Docker) cluster definition — "lifeos-local", 1 control-plane + 2 workers, ingress-ready — for local LifeOS development.

Course repo for AWS/Terraform/Docker labs (VPC+ALB+ASG, Swarm + ECR) that builds in difficulty toward — and ships — the ShopCloud capstone above.

Built the cobbler_pxe and nginx Ansible roles from scratch (PXE/DHCP/DNS provisioning), restored a vaultwarden role, and wrote a pytest suite + PXE-boot-testing automation skill.

↳ inside mherkazandjian/hpccluster

Designed and built an OCI image-management subsystem (images/ package) and PXE-boot support via a new BareVM provider — both with design docs, tests, and a LaTeX presentation.

↳ inside mherkazandjian/boxman

Sphinx-based team wiki: wrote a 190-line Cobbler PXE-boot demo page, drew the topology/sequence diagrams, and corrected a subtle runtime detail in the boxman docs.

↳ inside scds/rcc wiki

The team's issue-board and sprint-planning workspace — pure process: GitLab milestones as 3-week sprints, label-based Kanban columns, ticket-diary conventions. No code by design.

↳ inside scds/rcc team

The FYP repo above, as coursework: adversarial-ML capstone with weekly progress reports, a 2-person team, faculty supervision, HPC training runs, and a live web demo.

PennyLane programs covering gate-order effects, 3- and 5-qubit GHZ-state prep, SWAP-minimisation via NetworkX graphs, Deutsch-Jozsa, and the superdense-coding protocol.

GRAND (Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding) channel decoder and a confidence-ranked "soft GRAND" variant, implemented in Verilog with NEP-generator and syndrome-checker submodules.

QR decomposition implemented three ways for comparison — RISC-V assembly, x86 with AVX/SIMD intrinsics, and MATLAB — including a simulated zero-forcing MIMO receiver test.

Hands-on labs spanning SQLite (Python), PostgreSQL (psycopg2 console app), and Firebase Firestore (firebase_admin) — plus an early EasyDB construction-company schema design.

Six lab series implementing core structures from scratch in C++ — linked lists, binary search trees, graphs with shortest-path algorithms, hash tables, priority queues.

A report on the RISC-V "A" atomic extension with working assembly: LR/SC and AMO-based spinlocks, an atomic counter, a CAS routine, and an RVWMO memory-ordering analysis.

Three written analyses: an IEEE-format paper comparing GSM vs. UMTS security and handover, a quantitative Mobile-IP problem set, and a paper on architectural gaps in 5G.

Ansys HFSS simulation labs — plane-wave propagation through media, coaxial-cable analysis, and microstrip transmission-line design with standing-wave field visualisation.

Switch NSP/XCI installer — got a self-authored PR adding HTTP/HTTPS directory crawl-and-browse merged upstream, plus further uncommitted edits to the C++ core.

AMD Ryzen power-management CLI — locally stripped the entire Windows-specific win32/ tree (~570 lines of services, drivers, DLLs) for a Linux-only build.

A well-known Hyprland (Wayland) dotfiles project, cloned and lightly extended with a local arch-packages/ directory for desktop theming.

An mpv-based cast shim for Jellyfin — clean clone, run as the media-playback client for the self-hosted Jellyfin instance on theWyseKube.

A Linux kernel driver exposing the AMD Ryzen SMU for power telemetry and hardware monitoring — built and loaded for local use.

GRUB2 bootloader theme installer — used to theme boot screens on the personal Arch Linux install.

A Quickshell desktop-shell config for the Niri Wayland compositor — a fork-of-a-fork explored out of interest in alternative tiling-WM ecosystems.

The AUR build script for Cisco Packet Tracer — kept around to install and run the networking-simulation tool on Arch.

A community fork claiming to be a "leaked" build of Anthropic's Claude Code CLI — almost certainly fan-fiction (its own package.json self-describes as "0.0.0-leaked"), kept as a curiosity, not a real source leak.

An empty git repository with no commits, remote, or files — a placeholder created for a laptop-specific Hyprland config that never got populated.

Three progressively newer DD-WRT firmware builds staged for a Linksys EA6900 router — a flashing archive, not a code project, but evidence of router/firmware tinkering.