Software engineer · Fort Myers, Florida

Adil Zaben

I build things that hold up in production.

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The short version

I like the part
that has to work.

Backends, pipelines, models. Whatever the problem needs.

At scale

A million records.
One pipeline.

Built it, shipped it, kept it up.

0records processed
0papers published
0hackathon podiums

Method

Mostly I read
failures.

  1. Smallest version that can fail honestly. If it breaks there it breaks everywhere.

  2. Config, metrics, traces. The one I need later is always the one I nearly skipped.

  3. Most bugs live in the input, not the logic.

  4. A paragraph per failure. That is where the next fix comes from.

The stack

One weekend

A honeypot
that talks.

A Raspberry Pi dressed up as the real server, with a language model playing the host. Four of us, one weekend in Miami, and we beat FIU, USF, FAU and UF.

Published

Two papers.

ICIICE 2026, on IEEE Xplore. Our method written up in the WACV 2026 thermal challenge.

Selected work

A few things
I’ve made.

Open to internships

Say
hello.

Software engineering roles and internships.

adilzaben@gmail.com

Fort Myers, Florida