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Karim Alibhai

Customer-obsessed engineer • Founder for life

I help startups go from “works on my laptop” to $100M+ ARR. A decade of MVPs, product-market fit and scaling. Software is just the tool I use to fix important problems.

I help startups go from “works on my laptop” to $100M+ ARR.

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Places I've held a microphone

[2026-11]soon!Running Stateful Analytics on Kubernetes: Lessons from Building a Distributed DuckDB PlatformKubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA (Salt Lake City), with Seth McCombs

[2019-04]JS Performance: State of the ArtForwardJS (Adobe Ottawa)

[2018-07]Building More Resilient Web ApplicationsOttawa JS (Adobe Ottawa)

[2017-02]Break More ThingsWorkshop at Carleton Hacking

[2017-02]Mad Science with TwilioLightning Talks (University of Ottawa)

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LLM Readings

My running list of papers and resources for going past LLM 101. I add to it whenever I find something good.

I use this page to track papers and other content that I believe is valuable for LLM usage outside of simple getting started content. This page will be updated on interval as I come across more things.

Agents

Self-correction

Prompt Engineering

Knowledge + LLMs

I’m expecting way more research to pop up in this area over the next little bit, so I think it deserves its own section.

Misc