Aqil Nazri

Fresh grad, aspiring AI engineer · Kedah, Malaysia

I build software for Malaysia: maps for its roads, warnings for its scam calls, numbers for its districts. Then I write down how it was made.

Now

Building Belang, a privacy-first navigation app for Malaysian roads, and co-founding Shariah Algo Trading. Penn State computer science, class of 2026. Back home in Kedah.

Writing

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  1. One Belang route request, and a rate limit that counted in the wrong room

    A two-minute explainer reel: the path a route request takes from your phone to the routing engine, what gets stripped out on the way, and why a backup rate limiter added nothing.

  2. Choosing Belang's backend on a fresh grad's budget, and running it like a team

    Where Belang's server lives and why it costs €11.50 a month, why routing runs on Valhalla, how the server stays private, and the issue-and-pull-request routine that keeps a one-person project honest.

  3. Building Belang, a navigation app for Malaysian roads that doesn't follow you around

    Three days, one tiger mascot and a lot of small pull requests: how the Belang prototype came together, what it gets right about privacy, and what is still sample data.

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