Virtual Test Rig
My master's thesis. A digital twin of a drone wing that forecasts wing-tip deflection, watches its own prediction error, and retrains and promotes a new model on its own when the predictions drift from reality.
Wahib Farhat · Backend software engineer · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
I build APIs and connect systems. Some of them are even in production.
Seven years of backend work across telecom, applied research and cyber-physical systems: REST APIs, third-party integrations, event-driven data pipelines and the databases behind them. Python most days, Postgres and Docker close by. I like systems that stay up, fail loudly, and are boring to operate.
- now
- Research Associate, Backend & Systems Integration, TU Clausthal · 2024 – 2026
- studying
- MSc Computer Science, TU Clausthal · thesis on continuous-learning digital twins
- before
- Enabled Core Services · Vodafone Ghana · Huawei Technologies Ghana
- stack
- Python · FastAPI · Django · PostgreSQL · TimescaleDB · MQTT · Docker · Kubernetes
- also
- TypeScript · Node.js · GitLab CI · GitHub Actions · AWS · Linux · Raspberry Pi
01 Work
Where I have worked and what I actually did there. Most of this code is not public.
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TU Clausthal
Backend and systems integration for cyber-physical systems research, built around a drone wing digital twin. I designed an MQTT-based event-driven pipeline that joins streaming sensor data, time-series storage, ML inference and monitoring behind one API layer, containerised the whole stack, and deployed it to a Raspberry Pi with GitLab CI handling builds, tests and rollouts. A lot of the job was translating vague requirements from domain experts into something that runs.
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Enabled Core Services
Owned the backend for client-facing digital applications end to end, from requirements discovery through architecture, implementation, testing and deployment. The emphasis was on things that make handover painless: clear API contracts, documentation, and fewer regressions.
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Vodafone Ghana
Built and ran telecom-facing web services and REST APIs at national scale, owned deployments, and was the third-level support when production broke. Among the systems: a personalised offers engine fed in near real-time from billing records, the authentication API in front of Vodafone Cash mobile money, and a Push USSD gateway that exposes an SMPP client as JSON over HTTP.
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Huawei Technologies Ghana
Operated Huawei's Service Delivery Platform underpinning MTN Ghana's network. Delivered API integrations for third-party service providers, led upgrades and server maintenance on high-availability systems, and scripted away the manual checks.
02 Projects
Code that is public. One is my master's thesis, the other is what I use to read the news.
Trend Engine
A personal news aggregator with semantic search. Pulls articles from RSS feeds, embeds and keyword-tags them, and surfaces what is being talked about across sources without you having to scroll the feeds yourself.
03 Background
- msc
- Computer Science, TU Clausthal, Germany · 2023 – 2026
- bsc
- Computer Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana · 2011 – 2015
- languages
- English, native · German, B1