Aziz Diallo

Software Engineer · Kansas City

I design, build and run software end to end. Formerly at Microsoft on the platform that became Defender Threat Intelligence. Since then I've shipped a freight operations platform, a mobile game on both app stores and a machine-translation dataset for my native language.

Selected work

Osprey Carriers platform

Freight operations · 2026 – present

  • Self-hosted operations stack for a US-to-Gambia shipping business, running at about $1/month.
  • 13-table PostgreSQL schema with generated pricing, forward-only tracking states and migrations with drift checks.
  • Privacy-first public tracking: random tokens, a read-only role, field allowlists.
  • Nightly encrypted offsite backups with an automated restore test.
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • n8n
  • Cloudflare
  • Tailscale

SudoZen

iOS & Android game · shipped, now open source

  • About 8,300 lines of TypeScript; self-hosted backend, accounts, daily challenge, leaderboards.
  • Custom puzzle engine: backtracking with MRV, seeded generation, uniqueness checks under a time budget.
  • Offline-first delivery with retries and backoff; UI in 7 languages.
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • TypeScript
  • PocketBase

Source code on GitHub →

Galo

Pular translation data · 2026 – present

  • Python ETL turning 4 PDF dictionaries into a 9,978-entry, 43-field database with full provenance.
  • Language-aware matching rules for a low-resource language; 2,436 sentence pairs so far.
  • Speech pipeline design across 2,937 audio files.
  • Python
  • pandas
  • Whisper
  • NLP

Experience

2023 – present

Co-Founder & Lead Engineer

Independent ventures, Kansas City

  • Build and operate the software for businesses I co-own: Osprey Carriers, SudoZen, conquerdaily.com, and an agriculture venture in Guinea (2023–24).
2022 – 2023

Software Engineer

Microsoft, Lenexa, KS

  • Main engineer for most of the team's legacy Java, React and Python services: crawlers and threat analysis.
  • Owned the crawler migration from AWS to Microsoft's internal platform, eliminating most of an estimated $200K+ a year in AWS costs.
  • Wrote VTClient, a VirusTotal API service used by 10+ internal services; ran releases on Jenkins and Kubernetes.
2017 – 2022

Web Developer · Teaching Fellow

University of Kansas · Butler Community College

  • Built and maintained 100+ Drupal and WordPress sites; trained site owners; supervised 4 student employees.
  • Teaching fellow for EECS 448 Software Engineering.

Background

Education

B.S. Computer Science, University of Kansas. A.S. Mathematics, Butler Community College.

Stack

Java, Python, TypeScript, React, React Native, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, Linux.

Languages

English and French (fluent), Pular (native), Susu.