Hamza Afzal

Explore interests

Engineer · Builder · Explorer

I build systems, explore ideas, and follow curiosity.

01 / Selected work

Ideas made
tangible.

From the systems underneath to the experience on the surface. A few ways to explore what building can look like.

Concept collection — illustrative projects for this portfolio preview.

01 — Financial systems

Stockverse

Making a world of market signals feel clear, immediate, and human.

  • TypeScript
  • WebSockets
  • PostgreSQL
Inside the concept

The idea

A concept workspace for following instruments, comparing price movements, and keeping a personal watchlist without losing the bigger picture.

The approach

Separate market ingestion from the interface. Normalize incoming events, make connection health visible, and give every chart a useful text alternative.

Illustrative concept, not a shipped-project claim.

02 — Software architecture

Atlas

A quiet foundation for systems that have a lot going on underneath.

  • Go
  • Redis
  • Docker
Inside the concept

The idea

An exploration of an event-driven service platform: small, independently understandable services connected by explicit contracts.

The approach

Design around observable boundaries, idempotent jobs, and graceful failure. Trace a request from entry point to background work before introducing more infrastructure.

Illustrative concept, not a shipped-project claim.

03 — AI & exploration

Fieldnotes

Turning scattered reading into connected ideas worth returning to.

  • Python
  • Embeddings
  • Svelte
Inside the concept

The idea

A research companion concept that connects notes and source material through semantic search, while keeping the original evidence close at hand.

The approach

Retrieve passages with their sources, distinguish generated summaries from quotations, and let the reader follow the connections instead of trusting an unexplained answer.

Illustrative concept, not a shipped-project claim.

02 / A continuing journey

Curiosity doesn't
travel in straight lines.

One interest leads to another. Building something becomes a way of understanding it. The thread running through it all is a desire to keep exploring.

  1. Where it began

    Game Development

    Games were one of the first places where programming became something I could explore instead of simply study.

  2. Building systems

    Software Engineering

    Curiosity slowly became engineering: designing software, solving problems and building systems for real people.

  3. A different world

    Financial Markets

    Working on financial software introduced me to market data, real-time systems and the mechanics behind financial markets.

  4. Understanding things

    Science

    I am drawn to ideas that explain how complex things work, from computation to mathematics and the physical world.

  5. Another way of thinking

    Art & Creativity

    Not everything interesting needs to be practical. Design, visual ideas and creative experiments are part of how I explore.

  6. Still exploring

    Unknown

    Most of what I'll become interested in probably isn't on this website yet.

03 / The next conversation

Something
on your mind?

An interesting problem. A new perspective. An idea that won't leave you alone. Let's see where the conversation goes.

Sample contact address

Hamza Afzal

Engineer. Builder. Still exploring.

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