- I'm currently helping build Experiments at Mixpanel, our experimentation platform that helps teams make data-driven product decisions by measuring the real impact of changes on user behavior, alongside a fantastic team.
- On my free time, I love building open source projects with Rust, Go and TypeScript. All the big ones are listed below! These projects usually involve React or SvelteKit, Actix Web, and Docker among other technologies.
- When I'm not programming, I am usually cooking, playing video games (World of Warcraft, Rimworld, Ultrakill), going to the gym, or spending time with my spouse and our dog.
- I graduated from The Ohio State University with an MS in Computer Science. You can find my publications online.
- Pronouns: he/him or they/them
You can find me at:
- My website: bgenc.com
- My CV: bgenc.com/cv/
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
- BlueSky: @bgenc.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kaan-barmore-genc
Willet is a task tracker built for AI coding agents, operated entirely through MCP tools. It supports the full task lifecycle with subtasks, dependency linking, and semantic search backed by a local embedding model. The core is open source, and there's also a hosted version for people who'd rather not run it themselves. Built with TypeScript, React, Express, Drizzle ORM, and PostgreSQL, with Stripe for billing, OAuth, and OpenTelemetry for observability.
The first, and as of writing only, WebP encoding & decoding library written purely in Go, with arm64 NEON and amd64 SSE assembly. Compiles without cgo to any platform supported by Go for maximum portability, and is competitive against industry standard libwebp.
Rust Embed for Web simplifies web asset management by enabling direct embedding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into Rust executables. This ensures deployment consistency and includes performance optimizations like pre-computed headers and compression. The companion project, Rust Embed Responder for Actix Web, is tailored to efficiently serve embedded assets with intelligent caching and content negotiation, with a focus on high-performance web delivery.
Cuttlestore provides a versatile abstraction layer for interacting with popular key-value stores like Redis and SQLite (with support for CouchDB and DynamoDB planned). This streamlines development, facilitates switching between storage backends, and promotes adaptable application design.
A TypeScript library for managing the number of concurrent asynchronous operations. It helps prevent server overload by ensuring only a set number of network requests, database queries, or other async tasks are in flight simultaneously. This library minifies under 1kb and has zero dependencies, helping minimize your bundle size.
Middleware for the Actix Web framework that allows HTML forms to be submitted using HTTP methods beyond 'GET' or 'POST'. This provides greater flexibility in designing web forms and RESTful APIs, allowing lightweight pages to interact with rich APIs.