Service design
APIs, contracts, validation, auth, data boundaries, tests, and debuggable behavior.
Personal engineering laboratory / Mexico City
Gael Bensussen builds a practice around systems, tools, and computation.
Computer Science student at UNAM. Focused on backend engineering, distributed systems, Unix/Linux, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML engineering, programming languages, and software that can be inspected under pressure.
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SIMULATION
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Profile
Not a finished expert. A deliberate technical trajectory.
I am building the foundations needed to work on serious technology: algorithms, operating systems, networks, databases, compilers, observability, infrastructure, and the discipline to understand tradeoffs instead of decorating around them.
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Systems under study
Operational systems
Linux, containers, CI/CD, deployment pipelines, observability, and failure modes.
Computation
Algorithms, automata, complexity, programming languages, compilers, and formal models.
Developer instruments
CLIs, logs, documentation, local workflows, and interfaces designed for programmers.
AI/ML engineering
Data pipelines, model-serving systems, evaluation, reliability, and practical deployment.
Unix discipline
Small programs, plain text, composability, inspectable state, and durable workflows.
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Working modules
M01
Interface Lab
Study space for API contracts, validation, error surfaces, tests, and service behavior that can be inspected.
- Question
- What makes an API easier to reason about?
- Tools
- HTTP / PostgreSQL / Docker / tests
M02
Trace Notebook
Notes and prototypes around logs, traces, metrics, and how systems explain themselves during failure.
- Question
- How does a service narrate what happened?
- Tools
- Go / SQLite / metrics / structured logs
M03
Queue Room
Worker queues as a controlled environment for retries, idempotency, backpressure, and recovery.
- Question
- Where do retries stop helping?
- Tools
- Python / Redis / workers / failure
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Stack matrix
Languages
C, Python, JavaScript, Go, SQL, shell
Systems
Linux, networking, processes, filesystems, containers
Backend
REST, databases, queues, auth, testing, observability
Direction
distributed systems, compilers, ML systems, developer tools
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Personal blog
Field notes for systems, tools, and computation.
A small static blog for technical notes, research logs, reading notes, project writeups, and ideas that are still under construction.
First field note
A placeholder entry showing the structure for future writing.