Taha Tarkhani
Software engineering student building backend systems — from defense space-operations infrastructure to distributed tracing tools.
Currently at the University of Ottawa. Previously shipped full-stack features for a military space-situational-awareness platform at National Defence Canada, and built research data pipelines at the National Research Council. Based in Ottawa, ON.
Projects
Request Tracer
BuildingA distributed tracing tool that tags requests with correlation IDs across microservices, reconstructing a request's full path for debugging — a scoped-down version of tools like Jaeger.
Orbit Tracker
BuildingA satellite tracking tool that pulls live orbital data and computes real-time positions, visualizing satellites and upcoming passes on an interactive 3D globe.
Cost Monitor
BuildingA cloud cost dashboard that aggregates AWS billing data and flags spending anomalies, built on a real AWS account rather than sample data.