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SCRATCH · WRITTEN FROM THE DARK PLACE

Alex Abushady

The engineer who delivers. 6+ years shipping production systems. Now building games and AI tooling, and writing his way out.

Initiation 1

The Record

as written. as shipped.

p. 12

800+

Pull requests
authored

p. 13

2,400+

Pull requests
reviewed

p. 14

276

Production crises
resolved

p. 15

5

Products shipped
end to end

SIX YEARS · LIVE MONEY-HANDLING SYSTEMS · THE DRAFT HOLDS

the numbers were true before he wrote them down.

Initiation 2

What He Can Do

three words keep surfacing.

Production

Five products shipped end-to-end in C#/.NET. 800+ PRs authored, 2,400+ reviewed, and 276 production support cases resolved on live money-handling systems.

Worlds

Game systems prototyped from driving physics to combat design. Dev tools built. Mods shipped for games like Cyberpunk 2077.

The Other Thing

Local LLMs fine-tuned and served on his own hardware. Model tooling. Applied AI engineering brought into production systems.

this word keeps rewriting itself.

Initiation 3

The Case Board

follow the string.

EVIDENCE Nº 01 2026

Platform Engineering at MSI (2020–2026)

Six years on a production insurance platform: five products launched end to end, a $95M migration with zero data loss, and 800+ PRs shipped as engineer, lead, and manager.

Enterprise · Full-Stack · .NET · Insurance

EVIDENCE Nº 02 2024

Violet Twilight v0.2

A Mistral Nemo fine-tune merge built for roleplay and assistant use, made to run locally on consumer hardware instead of cloud infrastructure.

LLM

EVIDENCE Nº 03 2024

Generative Texting

A Cyberpunk 2077 mod fork that connects locally hosted LLMs to the game, letting you text in-game characters with no cloud provider required.

Fork · Gaming · LLM

EVIDENCE Nº 04 2025

WeaponsTest Prototype

Unity firing range prototype exploring vehicle transformation, weapons handling, and combat mechanics.

Unity · Game Dev · C#

The full board
Initiation 4

Loose Pages

the dev log, where he left it.

Full log
Return

The Way Out

every draft needs a reader.

Stories from the dark place all end the same way: somebody has to ship. He ships.

Step Into the Light

the lamp stays lit. he answers.