"Athar is a pleasure to work with. On many occasions, I have tasked him with vague technical requests and every time he finds a speedy solution, despite my poor direction. He is solutions-oriented and has a can-do attitude. I highly recommend him."
I'm Athar.
I ship production mobile and web apps, AI-augmented and spec-first.
Currently engineering at AALA.
At AALA I lead Lila — plain English to SQL across 95 languages. On the side I'm shipping qck.sh (sub-50ms redirects, zero-sampling analytics) and Crane (native Rust IDE, no Electron). Before AALA, ten years on mobile, including running the mobile team at a Forbes 30 Under 30 company. Different domains, same way of working.
A link shortener that counts every click.
Most link shorteners sample analytics so redirects stay fast. I didn't want to pick between speed and counting things correctly, so I built the architecture that lets you have both. Sub-50ms redirects, every click stored.
QCK.SH
A URL shortening and attribution platform built for raw performance. Every redirect resolved through Rust with multi-layer caching. Analytics powered by ClickHouse for real-time, zero-sampling insights at scale.
Other things I've built.
A code editor written in Rust.
One binary. GPU-rendered. No Electron. I started it because my editor was using 1.4GB of RAM and I wanted to see how much further I could go in the other direction. It's open source; I'm building it in public.