Software Engineer with experience in enterprise systems, quantum software, and web development (backend & frontend).
Currently consulting with FjellTopp.

I enjoy building targeted projects that deepen my understanding of programming languages, data structures, and machine learning.

• CLAI — an experimental natural-language shell using RAG + small LLMs.
• Zeste — a Django project for managing a small manufacturing operation.
• Avalon — a programming language with a tree-walk interpreter and quantum extensions.
• Proto — a lightweight prototyping language.
• C Collections — a C library of data structures.

I blog at ntwalibas.github.io on software engineering.

Highlights:

• Quantum designs — approachable explanation of a topic I found dense when learning it.
• Reflections on CLI tools — my thoughts on designing better CLI tools.

• Exploring local-first AI with small language models.
• Making notes on transformers and subtelities of integers operations in compilers.