mustakim.dev
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I build distributed systems,
intelligent agents &
research.

Software Engineer · MS @ ASU.

IEEE published. Top 3% on LeetCode (Knight, 1900+ rating).

Now · actively building

What I'm building right now.

Cascade: Knowledge-Graph Intelligence for Logistics

in progress

A platform that models a logistics network as a live knowledge graph and propagates shocks through it (a snowstorm at one hub, a fuel spike, a retail-sales miss) to forecast where delays will cascade, which routes are about to bottleneck, and which shipments are quietly at risk, all before it surfaces in the tracking data. Graph-context features already cut short-horizon forecast error by 7-19% on logistics, with conformalized prediction intervals for honest uncertainty. Now hardening the autonomous analyst loop that expands the graph, retrains, backtests leak-free, and writes a decision brief on its own.

Knowledge GraphsGraph Neural NetworksLightGBMConformal PredictionOperations ResearchFastAPIPython
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Local companion models

ongoing

Self-hosting local LLMs that pair-program and automate the day-to-day, with a small harness that stress-tests them and tracks hallucination rate per prompt template. Swapping a model becomes a measurement, not a guess.

Local LLMsOllamaEvaluationReliability
Ideas & explorations
  • Reliability scoring for agent tool-calls: extending AegisFlow’s confidence model from single outputs to multi-step agent runs.
  • Graph-native retrieval that returns provenance and relationships, not just text chunks, so RAG can explain why an answer holds.
  • Predicting failure before it happens: turning the logistics knowledge graph into an early-warning signal for cascading disruptions.
Selected Work · 2025 - 2026