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Data engineering, machine learning and security, written from projects that actually shipped. New posts land here first.

Data engineering, cryptography

I turned my bank alerts into an encrypted pipeline

Sixteen parsers, a server that writes what it cannot read, and what a hostile data source teaches you about production pipelines.

August 2026 · 6 minute read
Machine learning, security

Three models are better than one

Why my intrusion detection capstone needed an Isolation Forest, a Random Forest and an autoencoder to reach 0.95 F1 on real attack traffic.

August 2026 · 5 minute read