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Hasib Ziai.

Developer , Open-source enthusiast , Supporting educators through technology!

Developer · Network Security · Wireless Communication · Operating Systems · Open Source LLMs · Minecraft Modding

I'm a developer with 8+ years of systems administration experience and a strong interest in network security, wireless communicationFurther readingThe Ultimate Guide to Wireless Signals ↗, operating systemsFurther readingOperating Systems: Three Easy Pieces ↗Rust Wiki ↗Modern Operating Systems, Andrew S. TanenbaumLearn C the Hard Way ↗, game systems, and open source AI. My interest in game networking and musicWorth checking outtek ↗Field ↗openDAW ↗ led me to build mods, including LLM-powered NPCs for the Minecraft server I ran. Along the way, I contributed to KoboldAI and SillyTavern, ran a top-10 compute node on the AI Horde, and helped train a dialogue model with PygmalionAI. More recently, I've been working in Java to finish an instrument mod for Minecraft, and learning to fine-tune newer open models with LoRAs. A selection of my projects is below.

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Web App · Astro + Cloudflare Workers

Bell Schedule Template

A real-time school bell schedule display for hallway and classroom screens, with a live countdown and current-period tracking. Schedules are managed from a simple Google Sheet, so non-technical staff can update them. It supports multiple schools from one deployment, kiosk mode, an embeddable widget, and offline caching.

See it live at: ihs-bell-scheduler.ziai.dev

AstroCloudflare WorkersGoogle SheetsTypeScript
web
open

Systems Tool · C++

Signal Parser

A C++ program that parses large log files of sample signal data and pulls the relevant signal information into a structured result.

C++ParsingLog Processing
systems
open

Security Research · Python

Python Worm

A university security course project for studying how malware spreads. In an isolated lab of virtual machines, it scans a credential list and propagates between hosts. The point was to understand the attacker's side and come away with better defensive practices.

PythonSecurityMalware AnalysisLab Environment
security
open

Open Source Contributor · 2023–2024

KoboldAI

Contributor to KoboldAI, an open source, browser-based front end for AI-assisted writing and storytelling that runs a wide range of local and remote language models. I also used the AI Horde, db0's distributed computing system that KoboldAI plugs into, and learned how it works under the hood by asking questions and testing against it. Volunteers donate spare compute to run models for others, and I ran my homelab as one of its workers. Workers earn "Kudos" for completed jobs (purely for leaderboard bragging rights), and my setup quickly climbed into the top 10 compute nodes.

ContributorPythonLocal LLMsAI HordeDistributed ComputingOpen Source
open-source
open

Open Source Contributor · 2023–2024

SillyTavern

Contributor to SillyTavern, a locally installed open source interface for chatting with text-generation LLMs, which connects to many different model backends and APIs.

ContributorJavaScriptLLM FrontendOpen Source
open-source
open

Minecraft Mod

SongCraft-MC

A full-featured instrument mod for Minecraft that adds playable instruments, MIDI device support, and multiplayer jam sessions, along with custom blocks like loopers and speakers. Follow along at songcraft-mc.com.

MinecraftJavaForgeGradleModdingMIDIMultiplayer
games
open
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