Hi, I’m Mostafa. I’m a software engineer, currently at Google working on internal observability tools.

I’m most experienced with distributed systems, performance & reliability engineering, and software delivery. My writing will largely revolve around that.

I’m also a math and competitive programming enthusiast. I like learning things from their first principles. I read about foundational math, probability, and AI, so you will find me writing about that as well.

A pretentious way to describe a discrete random variable

June 21, 2026 · 3 min · 539 words

Probability for software engineers: the first principles

June 9, 2026 · 18 min · 3725 words

Accidental complexity

May 27, 2026 · 5 min · 999 words