BASSIM SHAHIDY
I'm an IT Technician at the NYC Bar Association
ABOUT THIS WEBSITE
This is the second version of my website. I built the first version with Streamlit which allowed me to build it using only Python. I've since started learning HTML, CSS, and Javascript and wrote this website from scratch using Flask as the backend and TailwindCSS for styling.
I later converted this wesbite to Astro and removed Flask because, as I continued learning web development, I realized this simple website doesn't need a backend.
MY IT SKILLS INCLUDE
- Hardware setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting
- Software installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
- Network diagnostics, troubleshooting, and setup
- Data backup, recovery, and storage management
- Cybersecurity best practices and threat mitigation
- Managing cloud computing resources and virtualization
- Operating systems installation, updates, and security management
I'M CURRENTLY LEARNING
- Building web apps with OpenAI's API
- Backend web development with Python and NodeJS
- Front end web development with HTML, CSS, and Astro
- Local deployment of LLMs like Mistral and LLaMA
- Distilling documentation to embeddings for LLM context
- Building plugins that integrate ChatGPT with LlamaIndex for context
MY ACADEMIC INTERESTS
- History - Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Renaissance
- Philosophy - Objectivism and Existentialism
- Pyschology - Social Pyschology and Political Cognition
- Sociology - Structural Functionalism and Political Sociology
- Linguistics - Linguistic Relativity and Determinism
- Political Science - Institutionalism and Constitutional Design