Principal Software Engineer · CISO @ Centiment
Building at the edges of what makes sense
Principal Engineer and CISO by day. I spend the rest of my time building tools I wish existed.
- 🔒 Principal Software Engineer & CISO at Centiment — SOC 2, HIPAA, and everything in between
- 🦀 Building primarily in Rust, Go, and Laravel/PHP
- 📚 Courses on Rust APIs, Laravel, and cloud security on Udemy
- ✍️ Writing at blog.afaan.dev and Medium
Static analysis CLI for Laravel security auditing, written in Rust. Catches misconfigurations, exposed secrets, and insecure patterns before they ship. Available as both a CLI tool and a GitHub Action for CI pipelines.
A fully functional 8-bit CPU emulator with its own assembly language, written in Rust. True 8-bit architecture (registers, PC, SP), 256-byte memory, a flexible ISA, and an interactive TUI — plus a built-in two-pass assembler.
The first programming language for the Kashmiri language. A full interpreter with its own syntax, grammar, and runtime — built to make computing more accessible to Kashmiri speakers.
A fast, lightweight, embeddable NoSQL database written in Rust — with clients in 5 languages.
Benchmarks: 50k RPS (read), 49k RPS (write)
JavaScript · Go · PHP · Python · Rust · CLI
An open-source, privacy-friendly personal spreadsheet. No cloud, no account required. Built with Vue + TypeScript. Try it at lumina.afaan.dev.
Open-source microblogging — React Native frontend, Go backend.
| Language | Packages |
|---|---|
| Rust | hyperdb-rs, lsec |
| Go | hyperdb-go |
| PHP | hyperdb-php, laravel-has-uuid |
| JavaScript | @afaanbilal/pulse, hyperdb-js |
| Python | hyperdb-py |
- Cloud Security Architect's Handbook — book
- SOC 2 Type II Compliance Guide — free PDF
- Rust API with Actix, SQLx & JWT — Udemy
- Rust API with Rocket & SeaORM — Udemy
- Laravel REST API — Udemy