Greater Manchester, England · open to opportunities
I'm Faris, a systems developer and self-proclaimed mathematician. I'm building planckOS, a from-scratch x86_64 operating system, and Plasma, the quantum language and deterministic simulator that runs inside it. I start a Mathematics degree in 2027.
Most of my work sits close to the metal: bare-metal firmware, bootloaders, kernels, fixed-point arithmetic, and deterministic simulation. Away from the kernel, I play competitive Minecraft 1.8.9 PvP and moderate for Voxyl Network. I also build small exact maths tools for A-level and undergraduate study.
lab.faris0x.dev
Exact work, written out line by line. Everything runs in your browser, and each tool can export its full solution in for your notetaking. Simplex and Big-M tableaus, matrix reduction, complex numbers with an Argand diagram, truth tables, graph algorithms, a floating-point toolkit, and Boolean simplification.
England
Day placement at Accurail, a web and mobile platform for planning and managing Safe Work Packs in the rail industry, keeping them compliant with the latest regulations.
University Academy 92, Manchester, England
Two-day technology work experience programme with professionals from IBM, Accenture, Cisco, Siemens, BBC, Softcat, CDW, and Network Rail.
Manchester, England
Supervised research project investigating how AI systems are reshaping security in the modern world.
Manchester, England
One-week work experience across Cisco's technology and business functions.
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England
Assisted and led diagnostics and repair of customer devices and electronics.
Things I'm building because I want to understand the bottom of the stack, starting with Plasma, the quantum language, and the operating system that ships it.
A high-level quantum computing language and deterministic statevector simulator, designed for planckOS. Line-based assembly-like syntax, reproducible output per seed, and backends from a reference interpreter to Clifford stabilizer, MPS, and a PTX-only CUDA path.
2026A Rust-based quantum simulation OS being built entirely from scratch: custom MBR and loader, 64-bit kernel, FAT32 driver, SMP, and a REPL shell, with Plasma shipped on every release.
2026Bare-metal scientific calculator firmware for the ARM Cortex-M3 in Rust #![no_std], with no OS, no allocator, and no standard library, plus a deterministic Q31.32 fixed-point math engine.
2025A from-scratch mathematical platform for symbolic algebra, exact calculus, and N-dimensional graphing, written in zero-dependency Rust. A FOSS alternative to Mathematica, WIP.
2026A terminal-based LaTeX editor with Micro-like editing, asynchronous pdflatex compilation, Zathura preview, and syntax highlighting.
2026A statistical anti-cheat for Minecraft using the G-test of goodness-of-fit to catch what thresholds miss, with self vs world baselines, ping-bucketed, and self-calibrating.
2026Led development of a cross-platform Minecraft server supporting Java, Bedrock, and console editions, with backend systems, infrastructure, and moderation in production.
2024A terminal Qur'an reader and player written in Rust, with chapter navigation, recitation playback, and a keyboard-driven interface built around ratatui.
2026Smaller tools, themes, and public code I maintain on GitHub. Most of these started because I wanted a workflow or a system to feel a little more like mine.
Ongoing research developing a theory of invariant detection and cumulative residuals, with a synthetic Minecraft anti-cheat experiment and the mc-trace/v1 trace toolkit. The work includes a manuscript, an R experiment, and a trace specification.
Supervised research under the University of Manchester's Manchester Access Programme. It asks how publicly accessible large language models can be exploited for cybercrime such as phishing, malware development, and social engineering, and whether the same models are becoming the most effective defensive tool available, from threat detection to automated vulnerability assessment.
University, starting Sep 2027
Studying Mathematics at university from next year.
Manchester, England
Predicted A in Computer Science (OCR), A* in Mathematics (Edexcel), and A* in Further Mathematics (Edexcel).
Remote
Offensive and defensive security across the modern threat landscape, in preparation for CompTIA Security+ and CompTIA Network+.
Manchester, England
9 in Mathematics and Arabic; 8 in Computer Science; 7 in French and Drama; 6 across Further Mathematics, English Literature, English Language, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.
Low-level systems, mathematics, or a project that should not work but does. Happy to talk.
