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Usama Ansari / Senior Software Engineer

Engineering. In motion.

I build distributed systems and AI platforms at Microsoft Azure, and open-source tools for everyday problems.

Independent parts. One system.
Thinking in systems.
Building for people.

Distributed systems

AI agent platforms

Open-source tools

A closer look

From the idea
to the details.

Explore the problems, architecture, and trade-offs behind an AI agent platform and a local-first finance tool.

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Built out of curiosity

Small ideas.
Useful things.

More on GitHub
LocalFinance transactions ledger with spending summaries, account filters, and categorized bank transactions.
Personal financeOpen source

LocalFinance

Your money. Your machine.

Turn Indian bank and credit card statements into a clear picture of your spending. Import, categorize, and explore your finances with your data stored locally in SQLite.

Built around a practical need: understand spending without handing financial data to a hosted service.

Explore the case study
Go · React · SQLiteView source
AppOrigins showing installed Mac apps and CLI tools, their installation sources, signing status, sizes, and app details.
macOS utilityOpen source

AppOrigins

Know what’s on your Mac.

A native macOS utility that traces installed apps and CLI tools back to their source. See versions, disk usage, signing status, and duplicate installs in one place.

A single view for a Mac setup that can otherwise be scattered across several installation sources.

Swift · SwiftUIView source
TunnelBar macOS menu bar app showing a local port, email protection, a Create protected link button, and recent shares.
Developer toolOpen source

TunnelBar

Localhost, a little further.

Share a local service through an email-protected link from your Mac’s menu bar. Create temporary Cloudflare tunnels without an account, reuse recent shares, and stop sharing when you’re done.

A focused menu bar workflow for sharing a local service while keeping access email-protected.

Swift · SwiftUI · AppKitView source
The bigger picture

Complexity is inevitable.
Clarity is a choice.

From planetary-scale telemetry to tools on your desktop, I care about the same things: thoughtful architecture, reliable foundations, and the people using them.

My experience & approach
01

Intelligent platforms

AI agents, MCP tooling, and multi-model orchestration. Designed to work together, built for the real world.

02

Systems at scale

High-availability APIs processing 150 million requests daily across more than 3 million Azure nodes.

03

Software with care

Secure integrations, practical developer tools, and a little extra attention to the details that matter.

Notes from
the build.

All writing
Behind the work

Good tools.
Better headspace.

The hardware, software, and small preferences that keep me building.

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