MonLok
A local business discovery application combining structured business data, Google Places integration, and AI-powered semantic search.
- Structured local business data
- Semantic discovery
- External Places API integration
Open to software engineering opportunities
Building useful
systems with care.
I’m a software engineer interested in backend development, API design, databases, and applied AI. I enjoy building practical software, exploring technical problems, and understanding how systems work.
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Software engineer
backend + applied AI
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Selected work
Featured projects
Emotionally-Aware Literary Quote Retrieval System
A retrieval system that finds standalone literary quotations matching one or more user-selected emotions using semantic embeddings and quote quality scoring.
- Emotion-aware semantic retrieval
- Embedding-based ranking
- Literary quote quality scoring
- Evaluation against a BM25 baseline
Event and Ticket Booking API
A backend application for managing events and ticket-booking functionality, built with Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL.
- RESTful API development
- Relational data modeling
- Authentication implementation in progress
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The toolkit
Technical skills
Backend
JavaSpring BootPythonREST APIsTypeScriptNode.js
Databases
PostgreSQLSQLData modelingQuery design
AI & Search
Semantic searchEmbeddingsNLPRetrieval systems
Tools
GitDockerNext.jsLinuxVercel
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A little context
About me
I'm interested in the parts of software that make products dependable: clear interfaces, resilient backend systems, useful data models, and the thoughtful application of AI.
I enjoy learning by building. This portfolio is a living record of experiments and projects across backend engineering, search, and developer tooling.
$ whoami software engineer focus: → backend systems → APIs & databases → applied AI status: always learning_
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