Kleinwallstadt, Germany
I'm a computer scientist from Ghazni, Afghanistan — formerly an assistant professor and database developer, now an M.Sc. student in Applied Computer Science at Hochschule Mainz. This is where I write about machine learning, teaching, and the slow, deliberate work of starting over in German.
M.Sc. Angewandte Informatik · Hochschule Mainz
01 — About
I began my career teaching computer science at the Faculty of Informatics, Ghor University, and building the database systems behind Afghanistan's National Examination Authority. Since arriving in Germany, I've spent my time in a different kind of classroom — learning German from scratch while preparing for a master's degree that lets me return to what I love most: machine learning and building software that holds up under real use.
This site is part portfolio, part notebook. I write about the technical work, the teaching, and the in-between moments of doing both in a second — or fourth — language.
02 — Journey
My career didn't pause while I learned German — it ran in parallel. Here's how the professional track and the language track line up.
03 — Skills
Presented the way I'd document it: a schema, not a word cloud.
| Column | Type | Proficiency |
|---|---|---|
| Python | language | advanced |
| SQL / MySQL / SQL Server | database | advanced |
| MongoDB / Firebase | database | proficient |
| Java | language | proficient |
| JavaScript / Node.js | language / runtime | proficient |
| PHP | language | working |
| HTML / CSS | markup / style | advanced |
| Active Directory / M365 | systems admin | proficient |
| Windows 7–11 / macOS | platform | advanced |
| Machine Learning | research focus | proficient |
Native
Fluent
Fluent
Upper-intermediate
04 — From the blog
What it actually takes to rebuild a career and a vocabulary at the same time — and why neither one waits for the other.
Read the post →Two years as an assistant professor changed how I write software — and how I explain it to other people.
Read the post →Treating grammar like a schema, vocabulary like a dataset, and the Integrationskurs like the hardest, most important course I've taken.
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