# Barış Salih Babacan — Systems Architect & CTO

> Official technical portfolio and knowledge platform of Barış Salih Babacan, Systems Architect & CTO at Garage.ist. Specializing in distributed P2P systems, local-first / offline-first architectures, content-addressable storage, and psychological fiction.

## Core Profile
- **Role**: CTO @ Garage.ist · Systems Architect · Author
- **Location**: Istanbul, Turkey
- **Email**: barissalih@babacan.me
- **Website**: https://babacan.me
- **GitHub**: https://github.com/barissalihbabacan
- **LinkedIn**: https://linkedin.com/in/barissalihbabacan

## Primary Technical Focus & Philosophy
- **Distributed P2P Systems**: Designing decentralized P2P networks with content-addressable storage (CAS) and identity verification models.
- **Offline-First & Local-First Architectures**: Building resilient systems where user data persists locally on-device using SQLite, Mongoose, or native Git storage, synchronizing state peer-to-peer.
- **Geographic & Spatial Math**: Building interactive 3D/2D orthographic map projections with solar terminator calculations.

## Notable Open-Source & Personal Projects

### Osmos
- **Description**: Next-Generation Local-First Database & P2P Sync Engine.
- **Role**: Founder & Lead Architect
- **Tech**: Rust · Tauri · SQLite · Libp2p · TypeScript
- **URL**: https://github.com/Osmos-App/osmos

### Mythos
- **Description**: High-Performance Desktop IDE & System Workbench.
- **Role**: Lead Architect
- **Tech**: Rust · WebAssembly · React 19 · Vite
- **URL**: https://github.com/Mythos-IDE/mythos

### Chorus
- **Description**: Anonymous Discussion Engine Built on Native Git Storage.
- **Role**: Founding Engineer
- **Tech**: Go 1.22+ · React 19 · Vite · TanStack Query
- **URL**: https://github.com/barissalihbabacan/chorus

### IT-RMS (IT Resource Management System)
- **Description**: Production Lab & Device Hardware Asset Management System.
- **Role**: Lead Architect & Developer (2024–2026)
- **Tech**: Node.js · Express.js · MongoDB (Mongoose) · Passport.js · QRCode
- **URL**: https://github.com/barissalihbabacan/IT-Department-Resource-Management-System

### World Clock
- **Description**: Interactive Geographic Timezone & Solar Terminator Projection.
- **Role**: Lead Developer @ Garage.ist
- **Tech**: React 18 · D3.js · TopoJSON · Vite SSG / Prerender
- **URL**: https://worldclock.info

### Q-PASS
- **Description**: IoT RFID Campus Access Control & Verification Hardware System.
- **Role**: Systems Engineer
- **Tech**: Arduino (C++) · Python Serial Bridge · PHP 8 · MySQL
- **URL**: https://github.com/barissalihbabacan/Q-PASS-RFID-Access-Control

## Commercial Projects @ Garage.ist

### Sortify & Sortify Web
- **Description**: Real-Time Visual Media Sorting & Asset Management Solution.
- **Role**: Backend & Infrastructure Lead @ Garage.ist

### Gayrimenkul Dünyası & +TV & Spor Sayfası
- **Description**: Enterprise real estate, video streaming, and automated sports news publishing platforms.
- **Role**: Backend Integration & Firebase Cloud Infrastructure @ Garage.ist

## Publications & Literary Works

### Babaların Günahları (The Sins of the Fathers)
- **Format**: Novel (Psychological Fiction / Drama)
- **Status**: Under Publication Review (Yayın Değerlendirmesinde — Submitted for Everest First Novel Award)
- **Summary**: A three-generation family saga stretching from the haunted streets of Scotland to the soulless towers of Los Angeles. Tracing ancestral sins, moral responsibility, and man's reckoning with his own conscience.
- **Official Site**: https://thesinsofthefathers.com

## Optional & Further Reading
- [Full LLM Document](https://babacan.me/llms-full.txt): Extended technical overview and details.